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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC 
ince has a shore-line of about 1,300 miles on Hudson Bay and James Bay, 
and on the south it borders upon the St. Lawrence river system, a distance 
of 1,100 miles from the Strait of Belle Isle to the City of Quebec. This 
great navigable waterway penetrating through the province into the very 
heart of the continent to the head of lake Superior for 2,340 miles, has been 
Canada’s great artery of commerce from the earliest times. Upon it are 
located the two largest cities of the province, Montreal and Quebec, and 
from its shores settlement has extended toward the interior. 
Geological Divisions.—Quebec may be divided into three main 
geological regions of distinct character. First, the Laurentian Plateau 
Region, which comprises the whole northern part of the province to the 
north of the valleys of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers—about 90 
per cent of the total area; second. the Appalachian region which embraces 
Farms in Richmond County 
the south-eastern part, lying east of a line joining Quebec city to the foot 
of lake Champlain; third, the St. Lawrence lowlands which include the 
plains bordering the St. Lawrence river above the city of Quebec, and the 
south-western part of the province. 
OLDER SETTLED PORTIONS 
That portion of the province south of the St. Lawrence river may be 
divided, for the purposes of description, into two parts, viz.. the area