Identifier: canadianschoolge00corn (find matches)
Title: Canadian school geography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London Toronto : Dent
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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this pen-insula they rise to a height of five thousand feet, which altitudeis attained nowhere else in the province except in the extremenorth-east of Labrador Peninsula. The chief mining of the province is carried on in the Appalachianregion. Quebec supplies almost the whole world with asbestos.This mineral, which is obtained at Thetford Mines and its \icinityin Megantic County, is shipped both to Great Britain and to theL^^nited States (Fig. 102). Copper is also extensively mined in thesouth-western part of the Appalachian region, not far from themines where asbestos is obtained (Fig. 122). Sec. 266. The St. Lawrence Plain.—The Canadian Shield and theAppalachian Highlands border the north and south shores of theSt. Lawrence River from its mouth to the vicinity of Quebec.Here they diverge and recede from the river. A flat, wedge-shapedplain lies between them, divided into two parts by the St. Law-rence River. On this plain resides by far the largest part of thepopulation of Quebec.
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196 CANADIAN SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY The flat surface of this plain leads one to believe that it is anold sea-bed (Sec. 126). Thefossil remains of marine animals foundin its sediments confirm this belief, as do the old beaches whichencircle Mount Royal. This is the most westerly of a row of sevenisolated hills, which rise like pyramids from the flat plain. Theserelics of the distant past are really the remains of volcanoes thatat one time belched out destruction on surrounding regions. Thesofter parts of the volcanic cones have long since been worn away,and nothing is left behind but the remains of the harder lava plugs,which filled the craters. This plain, which is one of the best agricultural regions ofCanada, is largely parcelled out into farms. French-Canadianfarms differ in shape from those of the rest of Canada. They arever\ long, narrow strips of land running back from some river orimportant road. Hence the farm-houses which are built along theborder of the road or river stand close t

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