Extracts from reports on the district of Ungava, recently added to the province of Quebec under the name of the territory of New Quebec (1915) (14782761752)

Image caption in the book: View of Seal Lake - Five Miles East of Narrows, Looking east. Annotation on the image: "A.P.Low.1263.96."
Identifier: extractsfromrepo1915qu (find matches)
Title: Extracts from reports on the district of Ungava, recently added to the province of Quebec under the name of the territory of New Quebec
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Québec (Province). Bureau of Mines
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Publisher: Quebec, Printed by E. Cinq-Mars, 1915
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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UMIACK OF WOMENS BOAT—Wakeham Bay.
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VIEW OF SEAL LAKE-Five Miles East of Narrows, Looking East. COUNTRY BETWEEN HUDSON BAY AND CLEARWATER LAKE 153 of the cold waters of James Bay. A drawback to settlement exists in the swampvnature of large areas having- a clay subsoil, but this might easily be overcomein many places by drainage to the rivers, and a large tract of country made fitto support a considerable population when it is rendered accessible by railways.A delay of a week at Moose Factory was occasioned by the repairs neces-sary to the large Collingwood fishing-boat belonging to the Survey which hadbeen stored there in 1892. The boat was loaded with two tons of provisions andoutfit, and carried the two large wooden canoes on deck, besides a crew of sixmen, and consequently was rather low in the water for safety or comfort. Thetrip up Hudson Bay lasted from the 14th to the 29th of June, and the course fol-lowed was across Hannah Bay to Point Comfort, thence north-east passing tothe east of Charlton and Strutton islan