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 IV. Forests

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER IV Forests* HE. forests of Quebec have always been classed among the most Tena resources of the province. During the French regime, the correspondence of the Intendants with the Government in France contains many references to the timber wealth of the new land and frequent mention is made of the trade, both actual and potential, in masts, spars, ship timbers and other forest products. Later, when the woods were more fully exploited, there emerged the romantic figure of the river driver, that hardy, danger-loving French Canadian who, deftly balanced with pike pole, rode the booms of logs over river and rapid to mill or tide-water. In the past generation the magnificent white pine of the province constituted the most valuable forest type, but the best stands of this tree have now disappeared before the lumberman’s axe, and the pulpwood species, principally spruce and balsam, are assuming a leading position. The decreasing supply of timber generally throughout the world has resulted in gradually rising prices, and in Quebec, as elsewhere, forest products are becoming more valuable. In 1926 the value of primary forest products in Quebec amounted to $64,976,437. The merchantable forests of the province were valued in 1928 at more than $1,000,000,000 and were estimated to cover an area of about 120,000,000 acres, Labrador forests excluded. They constitute an important source of provincial revenue, and from 1867 to 1927 those under license brought in a revenue of $77.098,452 FOREST AREAS Northern Areas.—The extreme northern portion of the province that is to say, the region north of the 55th parallel and covering Ungava is practically devoid of tree growth, and corresponds in character to the tundras of Siberia. Immediately south of this 1s the sub-arctic region constituting the forests of the Hudson Bay basin not included in the arctic zone. In area it comprises about 128,000,000 acres not more than one-sixth of which has merchantable timber on it. The country is rolling and is covered with small lakes and streams and many muskegs. Since the climate is severe, the period of vegetation continuing not more than five months, the trees are much smaller than those farther south, and the species are few in number, the principal ones being the spruces, balsam, tamarack, aspen, balm of Gilead and paper birch. Although these forests TT % Revised by the Department of Lands and Forests, Quebec. - 87

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