THE DOMINION OF CANADA. -21 



plain ; the St. Frances, rising in Lake Memphremagog, and the Chaudie're 

 at the outlet of Lake Megantic ; and, on the left, it receives the St. 

 Maurice, the Batiscan and the Saguenay rivers. The climate of Quebe 

 warmer than that of Ontario in summer and colder than that of the latter 

 in winter. The soil is generally rich and adapted to the growth of cereals, 

 hay and green crops ; apples and plums, grow in abundance. A large por- 

 tion of th -_' province is covered with forest, consisting for the greater part 

 of white and red pine. The other kinds of timber are ash, birch, be- 

 elm, hickory, black walnut, maple, cherry, butternut, basswood, spruce, tir, 



There are now not far from 2,000 miles of railway in operation in 

 the province. For judicial purposes the province is divided into 20 dis- 

 tricts each district having ample and equal jurisdiction in all 

 except as to revision and appeal. The superior court sits in revision only 

 at Montreal and Quebec. Public instruction is under control of the su- 

 perintendent of education who is assisted by a deputy and a council of 

 twenty-one members. Two-thirds of these are Roman Catholics, one-third 

 Protestants. There are separate schools, and a normal school for training 

 teachers. The Protestant universities are McGill College, at Montreal, 

 founded in 1827, and Bishop's College, Lennoxville, founded in l v 

 The Roman Catholic university of Laval was founded by the Quebec 

 Seminary in 1852. The Roman Catholic dioceses are seven in numl 

 the arch-diocese of Quebec, and the dioceses of Montreal, Tlnv,- Rivers, 

 Ste. Hyacinthe, Sherbrooke, Rimouski, and Chicoutimi. The Protest 

 dioceses are two in number : Montreal and Quebec. The four principal 

 cities are Montreal, population, 140,74-7; Quebec, 62,440 ; Tlnv.- Rivers, 

 .nd Sherbrooke, 7,227. The chief manufactures of the province are 

 cloth, linen, furniture, leather, sawn lumber, llix, paper, hardware, ch 



soap. boots and shoes, cotton and woollen goods, steam engines ; 

 locomotives, wooden ware of all descriptions, agricultural iiiipl.-m.-nt^, ships 



are ample water-power facilities for manufacturing, Pu' 

 a flairs are adininM.Mvd by a lieutenant -governor, an executive council of 



n members, a legislative council of thirty-f"ur m 



and a I- -assembly of sixty-live in -inhers. Ti 



Queen's U.-nch with a chief juM ie.-an<l A ith 



chief ju>rice;uid t trenty-eighl assistant t.sof 



quarter sesions, and immaryti i rill rases Th :. are 



eanals which -_Mvat lv facilitate conmieiv.- : I/i.'hin 



Montreal t. 1/ii. i;<-auharnois uniting ! and 



St. Louis; the <'haiiil.lv unitiu- I/iUe Chain; 



Among the points of interest to the touriai ire the Chaudie*w I 



