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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
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imental farms and experimentstations. Associated with the Experimental Farm is the OntarioExperiment EXperimental Union. By its efforts a system of co-operativeexperiments has been established among the farmers. Thenumber of individual experimenters is over two thousand. By this means,new and improved varieties of grains, etc., are tested and introduced fromseed distributed from headquarters. In the interest of fruit growing, theGovernment has likewise established thirteen fruit experiment stations, theobject being to test different varieties of fruit and determine their suitabilityfor the locality represented. By these agencies many problems of vital importance to the farmerhave been solved and a mass of information obtained which has helped himto make his business more profitable. The whole of this important work ispresided over by a special department of the Provincial Government—theDepartment of Agriculture, having a practical farmer at its head, who hasa cabinet portfolio. L 59
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H - NorthernOntario A FIELD FOR CAPITAL AND ENTERPRISEPROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENTFARM LANDS FOR SETTLERS \ORTHERN ONTARIO, or New Ontario as it is sometimes)/ called, extends northward and westward from the older settled™ portion of the Province to James Bay and the Albany F.iver. Itsvast extent is hard to realize, comprising- as it does an area ofabout 140,000 square miles, or 90,000,000 acres, a considerably greaterterritory than the settled portion of Ontario. So valuable have its resourcesbeen proved to be by the explorations undertaken in 1900, that the ques-tion of its development in relation to the future prosperity of the Provinceas a whole is becoming- one of ever-increasing importance. Scientists tell us that throughout a considerable portion of this regionthe fundamental rocks upon which the very foundations of the continentare laid here come to the surface and are laid bare. They are known as theLaurentian and Huronian rocks, to which the general termtheCcfntrv Archaean is a

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