Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The land and the people

Collection:: Economics Books

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE i9 centres of the province, especially in the Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke districts. It includes fifty-one arteries offering ample facilities for reaching any desired point. The improvement of the secondary system is pro- ceeding rapidly to completion. TaIrRD CrLAss ROADS, not generally used by tourists, are chiefly main- tained for local traffic as earth roads. Their present total length is 17,396 miles, of which about 12,000 miles have been thoroughly graded and 1,200 miles have been surfaced with macadam or with gravel. Of the total length of the three classes, 10,531 miles have been per- manently improved during the past seventeen years as gravel, macadam and concrete highways, constituting a compact network of good roads, of which the province mav well be proud. STATEMENT OF IMPROVED RURAL Roaps To DECEMBER 1, 1928 8,276-33 miles 332-21 « 449-49 128-15 wn "7 “ vl 1” Gravel........c viii Sand-clay.......... Macadam................. Bituminous macadam. . .. Cement concrete. ....... Bituminous concrete. . Total lencth..... 10 520-76 Maintenance.—Improved roads in Quebec are reliable at all times and can always be depended on by the travelling public. The Quebec Roads Department maintains the roads to the highest standard of excel- lence. Under the existing law, all improved roads of the three classes are maintained directly by the Roads Department wholly at the expense of the Government. The care of these roads involves an annual expen- diture of $6,000,000, and, in addition over $3,000,000 is spent annually on new construction. Tree planting has grown in importance annually. More than 160,000 trees have been planted on main and secondary high- ways since 1922. "CLIMATE Extending over such a large area as that comprised within the 45th and 65th parallels of north latitude, Quebec has a considerable variety of climate. The same area in Europe would extend from northern Italy to the White sea. The settled portions of the province, however, do not Present markedly noticeable contrasts of climate. In the newly opened colonization areas such as Abitibi and lake St. John, a greater degree of sunlight is enjoyed in the growing season, by reason of the northern latitude, than in the more southern and older settled areas of the St. Lawrence valley, The clearing of forests has also a marked effect in ameliorating the climate and tends to prevent unseasonable frosts. 8810503

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