THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 11 
northeast of Quebec city including the Gaspé peninsula and that portion 
south of the city of Quebec known as the Eastern Townships. The Gaspé 
peninsula is a picturesque, mountainous country into which the Appala- 
chian mountains thrust a spur from the United States. Its chief indus- 
tries are lumbering, fishing and, to a certain extent, agriculture, where the 
nature of the country permits. It is rich in game and its streams abound 
in game fish. Many wealthy Americans and Canadians have fish and 
game preserves in this district. The Eastern Townships are one of the 
oldest settled areas of the province and were largely settled by English- 
speaking people after the British occupation in 1763 and by Loyalists 
from the United States in 1784. There are proportionately more English- 
speaking people in this part of Quebec to-day than in any other part of 
the province. The land is fertile and well suited to farming, and some of 
the finest farms in Canada are to be found there. Scattered through the 
View of Cape Trinity, Saguenay River. from Eternity, Quebec 
Eastern Townships are a number of small but thriving manufacturing 
towns, supplied with hydro-electric power from the great Shawinigan 
Falls developments on the St. Maurice river and from smaller local water- 
power plants, Cheap power and a plentiful labour supply make this one 
of the most inviting districts in the province to the prospective manufac- 
turer, 
The north shore of the St. Lawrence river from the Saguenay east- 
ward is for the most part a ‘‘stern and rock-bound coast,” but from the