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Laurentian Shield
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a vast area of mineral-rich, mostly granitic, Pre-Cambrian rock surrounding Hudson Bay and extending as far southward as the Great Lakes.
Quotations
1940
Wherever railroads have been built through the Laurentian Shield, minerals have been discovered.
1963
They committed themselves to the exploitation of the Canadian (or Laurentian) Shield, the ancient rock plateau which lay north of the St. Lawrence. . . .