AP 1929-01 EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS ON THE DISTRICT OF UNGAVA OR NEW . PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND MINES BUREAU OF MINES HONOURABLE J.-E. PERRAULT, MINISTER ; J.-L. BOULANGER, DEPUTY-MINISTER ; A.-O. DUFRESNE, DIRECTOR.

EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS

ON The DISTRICT of UNGAVA

OR NEW QUEBEC

THIRD EDITION

QUEBEC PRINTED BY R. PARADIS PRINTER TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE BING

1929 (Photo Geological Survey of Canada,) PORT BURWELL.—At eastern entrance to . 23t4101 SO 31A13 Anbaw.i (-yip iq PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND MINES BUREAU OF MINES HONOURABLE J.-E. PERRAULT, MINISTEIt ; .J.-L. BOULANGER, DEPUTY-MINISTER A.-O. DUFRESNE, DIRECTOR.

EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS

ON The DISTRICT of UNGAVA

OR NEW QUEBEC

THIRD EDITION

QUEBEC PRINTED BY R. PARADIS PRINTER TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY TIIE K[N1;

1929

Extracts from reports on the District of Ungava or New Quebec

This report is a compilation of extracts from various reports on the northern territory added to the Province under the name of New Quebec Territory. A first edition of this report was published in 1913 ; a larger second edition was issued in 1915, hut the demand for the volume having exhausted the supply this third edition has become necessary. The request for inform- ation on this territory has always been great and it is believed that with facilities for rapid transportation by aeroplane, much greater interest still will he displayed. The geological information on the map that accompanies the report, is a compilation from official published sources, mainly, not to say exclusively, the publications of the Geological Survey of Canada. Our thanks are due to Dr W. R. Collins, Director of the Geological Survey, to Dr F. C. C. Lynch, Director, National Resources Intelligence Service, Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa, and to Dr G. M. Wrigley, Editor, Geographical Review, New York, for their kind permission to reproduce the illustrations which are given in the report.

A. O. DIUFRESNE, Director Bureau of Mines.

Quebec, J une 1929. TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 1 Extracts from Report on explorations in Labrador Peninsula, A. P. Low, Geol. Surv. of Canada, 1895 9 Annotated list of Mammalia of Labrador Peninsula 114 List of Birds of the interior of Labrador Peninsula 124 List of principal food fishes of Labrador Peninsula 129 Extracts from Report on Northern Labrador by A. P. Low, 1896 133 Extracts from Report on east coast of , A. P. Low, 1900 156 Extracts from Report on Nastapoka Islands, A. P. Low, 1900 177 Extracts from Report on South Shore of Hudson Strait, 1898 185 Extracts from Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada, G. A. Young, 1927 188 H. B. Co's early activities in prospecting 203

Alphabetical Index 207 The Territory of New Quebec -- FORMERLY CALLED DISTRICT OF UNGAVA

The present volume is, in the main, a compilatign of extracts relating to Ungava from the publications of the Geological Survey of Canada. Some of these reports are now out of print and are only available to those who possess a complete set of the Survey publications. Moreover, it is thought that a presentment in one book of the more important information regarding this territory, scattered through numerous bulky volumes, will be welcome by persons interested in that northern country. In November, 1912, a bill was passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, entitled, " An Act respecting Ungava and erecting that territory under the name of New Quebec ". The territory of New Quebec, therefore, comprises the district of Ungava, which lies immediately north of the Province of Quebec, as previously deli- neated. It embraces the mainland approximately between latitudes 53° and 60° 30', and between longitudes 57° and 790, with the exception of the North- East coast, which under the name of Labrador, falls under the juridietion of Newfoundland. Special attention is called to article 3 of the bill above mentioned, which enacts that : 3.—" All grants of lands, or other rights whatsoever in New Quebec, " before the 15th day of May, 1912, the date of the coming into force " of the proclamation of the Governor-General in Council,—except those " relating to the Hudson's Bay Company, or to the rights of the Indian " inhabitants, if such rights exist, the whole as mentioned in the Act " of Parliament of Canada, 2 George V, Chapter 45,—shall be notified to " the Provincial Secretary, within twenty-four months of the coming " into force of this act, under pain of absolute nullity. " Such notice may be given by registered letter, and shall be accom- " panied by a copy of the title, if any, evidencing the grant." The following acts give for themselves a history of the legislations respect- ing the annexation of the Territory of Ungava to the Province of Quebec. 2 NEW QUEBEC TERRITORY

THE QUEBEC BOUNDARIES EXTENSION ACT OF 1912

HEREAS on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and W eight, the House of Commons resolved that the limits of the Province " of Quebec should be increased by the extension of the boundaries of the ` ` Province northwards so as to include the territory hereinafter described, as " in the said resolution is more particularly set out, upon such terms and " conditions as may be agreed to by the Legislature of Quebec and by the " Parliament of Canada. Therefore, subject to the consent of the said Legis- " lature, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and ` House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : " 1.—This Act may be cited as the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912. " 2.—The limits of the Province of Quebec are hereby increased so that ` ` the boundaries thereof shall include, in addition of the present territory of " the said province, the territory bounded and described as follows :—Com- " mencing at the point at the mouth of East Main River where it empties into " , the said point being the Western termination of the Northern " boundary of the Province of Quebec, as established by chapter 3 of the " Statutes of 1898, intituled, " An Act respecting the north-western, northern ` and north-eastern boundaries of the Province of Quebec " ; thence northerly " and easterly along the shores of Hudson Bay and Hudson strait, thence " southerly, easterly and northerly along the shore of and the " shore of the said strait ; thence easterly along the shore of the said strait to " the boundary of the territory over which the island of Newfoundland has " lawful jurisdiction ; thence south-easterly along the westerly boundary of " the said last mentioned territory to the middle of Bay du Rigolet or Hamilton " Inlet ; thence westerly along the northern boundary of the Province of " Quebec as esfablished by the said Act to the place of commencement ; and " all the land embraced by the said description shall, from and after the " commencement of this Act, be added to the Province of Quebec, and shall, " from and after the said commencement, form and be part of the said province " of Quebec upon the following terms and conditions and subject to the " following provisions :— " (a) That the population of the territory hereby added to the province " of Quebec shall be excluded in ascertaining the population of the said pro- " vince for the purposes of any readjustment of representation of the other " provinces consequent upon any census ; " (b) That in the general census of the population of Canada which is " required to be taken in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one " and in every tenth year thereafter, the population of the territory hereby " added to the province of Quebec shall be distinguished from that of the said UNGAVA ANNEXAT