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 III. The leading industry - agriculture

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER III The Leading Industry—Agriculture* IRST among the primary industries of the province is agriculture. Fe chief agricultural areas are found in the western portion of the province, mainly in the valleys of the St. Lawrence and the Ottawa rivers and in the Eastern Townships. Promising new agricultural areas are, however, now being settled along the line of the Canadian National Railway, in the Temiskaming, Gaspé, Lake St. John, Abitibi districts, and elsewhere. According to the latest available returns, the estimated area of total possible farm land in the Province of Quebec is 43,745,000 acres, of which the estimated area under cultivation in 1927 was 6,877,900 acres (or about 15 per cent) and the value of the field crops was $144,273,000. The farm acreage in 1921 was 17,257,012 acres and the estimated gross agricultural wealth of the province in 1927, including all farm property, live stock and production, was $1,379,654,000. The gross agricultural revenue of the province for 1927 is estimated at $282,354,000. In common with the rest of Canada, the rural population of Quebec as compared with the urban is dec’ining. The accompanying table indi- cates the extent to which this has taken place since 1901. Various causes have been given for it, not the least important of which is the improvement of agricultural machinery and methods of production, thus enabling as great, if not greater, production with fewer hands. The remarkable indus- trial development in parts of the province has likewise considerably influenced agriculture. RURAL AND URBAN POPULATION IN QUEBEC, 1901-1921 Vear 1901............ OIL. Soi Total Popu- st10n ,648,898 1005776 361.190 Rural Population Number | Fer cent 994,833 1,038,934 038.630 60.34 51 -80) 13.00 Urban Population Per cent Number | of total 654,065 566,542 322 560 39.66 48.20 56.01 Systems of Farming.—Whilst the system of mixed farming is followed bv the large majority of agriculturists in the province, the following * Revised by the Department of Agriculture, Quebec. R8105—83 232

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