Canadian school geography (1922) (14741659946)

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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.,# d & FIG. 127. PHYSICAL DIVISIONS OF OLD ONTARIO SHOWING NIAGARAESCARPMENT AND THE TWO LEVELS OF ONTARIO The positions of the important towns and cities near the escarpmentare shown. for agriculture ; in fact it closely resembles the other part of theCanadian Shield to the north. In the angle between the St. Law-rence and Ottawa Rivers, however^ there is excellent farming land. Sec. 290. New Ontario.—This regnon^ which has been alreadydescribed in Sees. 203 to 208^ is the centre of the mining andlumbering industries of Ontario. In the less settled part of it thereis excellent hunting and trapping (Fig. 128). As it is now crossedby three transcontinental railways from east to west^ and by theTemiskamiug and Northern Ontario Railway from north to south,its industrial development will be more rapid. Sec. 291. The Clay Belt.—Beyond the high land is a remarkabletract of level country, called the day belt (Fig. 93), the surface
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.,; Ma,^ryH.Tn-is Company.FIG. 128. INDIAN CALLING MOOSE ON THE FRENCH RIVER, ONTARIO The moose aaswers and comes toward the call, when the Indian shoots it. 220 CANADIAN SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY layers of which are largely made of sediment deposited in an ancientlake ; consequently^ the belt is as fertile as any district in OldOntario. This reoion^ which has an equable and temperate climate,and an abundance of wood and water, is three-quarters as large asOld Ontario. It stretches from TMhe Abiiibi on the east to a pointnorth of Lake Xipigon on the west and is probably able to support apopulation of several million people. Now that a trans-continentalline of the Canadian National Railways passes through the heartof the clay belt it is expected that settlers will rapidly take upthe land (Fig. 129). Sec. 292. Patricia.—The most northern part of Ontario, whichwas added to it in 1912, is a wilderness of forests veined withrivers and dotted with lakes. It is named Patricia after PrincessPatricia