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Show R3CH RESOURCES I BRING OUARRLL j Exploitation of Labrador For- ests Delayed By Boundary Boun-dary Dispute V I ST JOHN'S, N. F.. Oct. 20. (Corn I spondence i Recent surveys of Iab- H rador whlph have disclosed immense rces of tlmbei suitable for pulp .- and paper manufacture have led to i revival of efforts to bring about :i determination of the boundary line ;flH .between Newfoundlanil and the Can- 'Vil ladlan province of Quebec. This line mskbbbI I has never been laid down by actual KLaB survey and Its various definitions as MB . gp ii Hi documents issued at intervals HsiKrt in the last century and a half arc so Lbbbbk igne that government officials do iSBBBI not know Just how much of Iabrador BjLsB I belongs to Newfoundland and how bWisbbbI uun h to Canada. LselllBV H K M Kl soi RC1 S That Labrador is rich In many nat- BHb ural resources, including enormous ssssitia terpower, has long been known, but v th praetieahiliiy of utilising its for- HH SStS for paper making was not demon- E I strnted until the world-wide paper H ! shortage led to exhaustive Investiga- H j tions of the territory. TUI resulted A ssVLsl plications bj promoters to the v. v. found Is ".I government i or tlmb i limits in Labradoi - these could f- I not tfe acted upon until si 'W-' mined whether Newfoundland owned t BH I the land in question, representatives of H this colony were snt to London lat'j in the summer to discuss with eminent LsBfeSBBBs! Bnfllsh counsel the preparation of a LssLsfl formal draft of Newfoundland's Tab- BBBBasBHs! rador claims as opposed to those of BaaH ids The coast of Labrador was annexed bbbbbbbbb! to Newfoundland In 1863. Ten years K later, owing to difficulties arising out of grants made to numb- of per- HH sons under the French rule. It was ll changed to 'the Canadian Jurisdiction. SBBBtJsBB In ISO:. again transferred ft) LbbhH Newfoundland and has since been at- BBBHBBH tins IbbH ORIGIN : DIFFK t The difficulty arises over different BBsKi9 iaterpretallons of the words "coast of WEpB I Labrador." One view is that New- LbbbkBbI foundl.Tinl can claim only the coast be- ssnrl tween Hlane Sabbm and Cape Chidlev HH with perhaps a half a mile Inland, and HVjHI the rest of Labrador belongs to Can- r5?H ids As defined In the letters patent F1 constituting the office of governor of tE Newfoundland, the boundary described fcfLi '' X a.i a line drawn between P.lane Sab- KiiS lm and ('..je Chidley, which would pass thro ugh the ocean In eertaln s e- tlons and leave large areas of the HSHl coast to the westward of the line and BBBSWSBRaai therefore not under Newfoundland Jur- HnS i-.l II I ion anj N'ewXoundland officials hold I ro the vi. w FKaht the correct dellmlta- WBt ILxk lion was made in a sessional paper kaH issued in this colony in 1864. Under LbbbbkJbbh the phraseology this document, BBBBBStl Newfoundland would be entitled to BBBSBRSlBa thousands square miles of the in- slBKlBB terlor of the Labrador peninsula in &!sbbbbbbbb addition the coast. KlBBBBBH |
