Data from "Effects of 20th-century settlement fires on landscape structure and forest composition in Eastern Québec, Canada"

In 1938, an aerial survey was conducted to map land-use types at the height of a European settlement episode in the Lower St. Lawrence region, within the southern boreal forest of eastern Canada. The original document included four landscape classes: "old forest", "young forest", "agriculture", and "burnt". Here we provide the ESRI shape files for these four landscape classes, which where georeferenced in our study "Effects of 20th-century settlement fires on landscape structure and forest composition in Eastern Québec, Canada" which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Vegetation Science. (epsg projection 32186 - nad83 / mtm zone 6). The original map is located in the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, under the reference E16,S444,D5204, map #5.<br>