Montreal was a _____ and lumber-trading for the French, but its principal business and industrial growth occurred under the British. It was the largest city in Canada throughout most of its history, being surpassed by Toronto only relatively recently. Fur Throughout the region, more than half the cultivated acreage is in _____, with oats the other principal crop. Hay "New France" was to be an agricultural colony, but throughout the early decades, it was _____ that attracted the most interest and enthusiasm and pulled French explorers ever deeper into the interior of the continent. fur trading In the 1970s a strict language law in the province of Quebec curtailed the use of _____ in government, business, and education, and made Quebec essentially a unilingual province. English Every river junction on the left bank (north side) of the St. Lawrence has a _____ nearby. sawmill, pulp mill, or both Early on, Quebec was divided into Lower Canada, which was _____, and Upper Canada, which was _____. French and Catholic/ English and Protestant The sub-regional center of the Eastern Townships is: Sherbrooke The French Canada region includes most of the southern settled parts of Quebec, from the lower Ottawa River valley in the west, down the St. Lawrence Valley to include the Gaspe Peninsula, _____ Island, and the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the east, as well as the relatively densely settled portion of the Canadian Shield that encompasses the Lake St. John lowland and the Saguenay River Valley. Anticosti