WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF QUEBEC 7 



Thirty-two different kinds of wood appear in the above table of which 

 twenty are native to the province. It should be noted that of many of these 

 twenty kinds of wood there are several species. For instance, spruce includes 

 three species; birch, four; pine, two; maple, at least two main species ; oak, two; 

 and poplar, four species. Thus there are about thirty-one species of wood 

 native to the province of Quebec represented in the table. 



Tamarack is the only important native wood which the manufacturers 

 have not reported. In 1915 the saw-mills of the province cut over two and 

 a half million feet board measure of tamarack There is no doubt that some 

 of this wood is used by such industries as the building of boats and the manu- 

 facture of pumps and tanks. It is a durable and elastic wood. However, the 

 greater quantity of tamarack cut in the province of Quebec is turned into railway 

 ties or used in the state of raw lumber for rough construction. 



Photo 7394. J. A. DOUCET. 



Gasoline boats at rest, Lachine, Que. The favourite woods for building these boats are 

 redwood, white pine, and cedar. 



In the above list the wood of coniferous trees largely predominates, forming 

 87-9 per cent of the total. Spruce alone forms 52-2 per cent. Spruce is also 

 the predominant species in the lumber output in the province of Quebec. 



That some industries require special kinds of wood, whose characteristics 

 make them most suitable for certain purposes, is true; but for many of them 

 the use of one kind of wood instead of another is merely a matter of habit, 

 convenience, and economy. Economy influences a great deal the choice of 

 many kinds of wood for the manufacture of certain articles. Thus the kind 

 of wood used would depend a good deal on the quantity available in the neigh- 

 bourhood and the distance of the factories from the source of different wood 

 supplies. 



As regards the consumption of native wood, the wood-using industries of 

 the province could be supplied by the home production of the province, with 



