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 27 was revised in 1916. In 1918 a special government department, called the Department of Municipal Affairs, was created, mainly to supervise and direct the finances of the municipalities, thus insuring a sound basis and good market for debentures issued. Every municipal corporation borrowing money is required by law to impose taxes each year sufficient to pay the annual interest and provide a sinking fund large enough to retire its debentures at maturity. Rural and village municipalities are erected under the Municipal Code and their affairs are administered by an elective council of seven members over which one of them presides as mayor. The county councils are made up of the mayors of the local municipalities within the county. Most urban municipalities have been created under special charter of the legislature, although provision is made for the erection of such muni- cipalities under the Cities and Towns Act. In 1927 the various classes of municipalities in the province were: city municipalities, 24; town municipalities, 96; village municipalities, 288; parish municipalities, 992. The area of the municipalities of the province now amounts to 25,466,325 acres, whilst the taxable lands have an area of 21,348,170 acres. The value of municipally-owned public utilities in 1927 was as follows: — Waterworks and sewers... .. Gas........... Light.............. Telephone. ......... Others. .. Total $ 79,652,818 516,584 10,913,267 64,285 11,063,230 .$102,210,184 EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM#* Provincial Control.—In Canada education is one of the activities of Government over which the British North America Act gives the province exclusive control, and each of the provincial governments, there- fore, has a department of education in charge of a minister. In Quebec, however, there is no minister of education, but the provincial secretary represents the interests of education in the provincial cabinet and in the legislature. The educational system is in charge of the Department of Education, the administrative officer of which is known as Superintendent of Education. Council of Education.—The Council of Education is the legislative and advisory body in the educational system of the province. It is com- * Revised by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Quebec.

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