New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . ber trade is themost important commercially and employs alarge niimber of people, especially in timber is very valuable and is chieflyobtained on the tributaries of the Ottawa, and inthe region about Lake St. John, north of Quebec;Dut almost every district stdl contains supplies)f timber and the whole Laurentian plateau iscovered with forest, all of which is useful either for wood orfor paperpulp. The fish-eries of theSt. Law-rence andthe Gulfare exten-sive and Wotre Dame Cathedral, Montreal. Mining is carried on but n
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . ber trade is themost important commercially and employs alarge niimber of people, especially in timber is very valuable and is chieflyobtained on the tributaries of the Ottawa, and inthe region about Lake St. John, north of Quebec;Dut almost every district stdl contains supplies)f timber and the whole Laurentian plateau iscovered with forest, all of which is useful either for wood orfor paperpulp. The fish-eries of theSt. Law-rence andthe Gulfare exten-sive and Wotre Dame Cathedral, Montreal. Mining is carried on but not most important minerals in their order areasbestos, copper, and mica. Slate, granite, andiron ore of good quality are also found. Theasbestos deposits near Thetford, in the Countyof Megantic, are in some places six inches thick,and the total value of the product is abouthalf a million dollars a year. Copper ore isfound at many places in the Eastern Town-ships, but the mines at Capelton are the prin-cipal ones that are now worked. Mica, which. Cotton Uni.
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