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

32 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC for 1926 was $64,976,437. There were during 1927, according to: the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1,056 sawmills in the province The total capital used in the lumbering industry was $37,528,360, and 10,596 persons were employed, to. whom. in salaries and wages, there was paid the sum of $5.219.406. Pulp and Paper.—Canada’s first paper mill was established at St. Andrew's, P.Q., in 1803, and, ever since, the province has continued in the forefront of the pulp and paper industry.’ It was not. however, Pulpwood logs in the Gatineau river until the decade from 1860 to 1870 that ground-wood pulp making obtained a footing in Canada, so that the present huge industry is not more than fifty years old. In 1927 there were 50 pulp and paper mills in Quebec, compared with 114 in all Canada. The capital invested in the industry was $295,505,452, over 50 per cent of that in the whole Dominion. The quantity of pulpwood used increased from 342,755 cords in 1910 to 2,291,- 599 cords in 1927, whilst the number of tons of pulp’ produced increased from 282,938 in 1910 to 1,749,965 tons in 1927 valued at $60,684,169. Paper manufactured in 1927 amounted to 1,344,473 tons valued at $91,908, - 475%. Both in pulpwood consumed and in pulp manufactured, Quebec stood first among the provinces of Canada. TT * Including figures for New Brunswick production.

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