DCHP-3

Laurentian plateau

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the 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

1917
. . . the peculiar significance of the Laurentian plateau in its relation to the development of Canadian history lies in the fact that, speaking generally, it is a great tract of barren country incapable of supporting an agricultural population, and thus splits the Dominion into two parts, Eastern and Western Canada.
1926
East of a line drawn from the Lake of the Woods to Great Bear lake in the far northwest lies the ancient Laurentian plateau. . . .
1952
The Pleistocene glaciation is nearly as evident here as in the Laurentian Plateau.