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Identifier: statementconcern00onta (find matches)
Title: A statement concerning the extent resources, climate and industrial development of the province of Ontario, Canada
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Toronto, Cameron, Pr.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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portion of the area is covered with innumerable lakes of allsizes, which have been eroded by glacial action. The land surface is gener-ally hilly and broken with ridg-es of rock, which often rise precipitouslyabove the rocky lake basins, forming rug-ged cliffs or bluffs. Everywhere,except where fires have devastated it, or settlement has taken place, the-country is still covered with a dense growth of forest. Northern Ontario has not been considered as a whole a farming-country. Its surface, in the earlier explored part, is for the most part rockyand broken, and its resources are those of the forest and the mine ratherthan of the farm. Yet it has the advantage of possessing larg-e areasof farming land, as fertile as any in the Province and capable ofsupporting in the aggregate a large population. The more accessible-of these sections are already partly settled, while others are withoutmeans of communication, and too remote to be considered at the presentTtime. f 61 1 NORTHERN ONTARIO
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Pioneer Road-Making, Through Pulp-wood Forest. Temiskaming District. Among- the more important areas now available for settlement is the Rainy River valley, west of Lake Superior and south of the Lake-of-the- Woods, where there are about a million acres of very fertile Areas ^kk ,and suited to a11 kinds of farming. A good many settlershave already located along- the river front, and have good housesand barns, large clearings, good fences, and well-bred stock. The con-struction of the Rainy River Railway has rendered this district very access-ible, and the land being free it is rapidly filling up. Along the WabigoonRiver in the same district another section of good land is found, of whichthe Dryden settlement is the centre. On the upper Ottawa, in the region of Lake Temiskaming, is a large area of level, fertile land, adapted to all kinds of farming. CI B^t* About one million acres have been surveyed and settlers are beginning to locate there in numbers. The land is sold by the Governm

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