Virtual Museum of Canada
Jardin botanique de Montréal 
Centre for Forest Research

Dendrochronology

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The oldest living tree known in Québec is an eastern white cedar almost 1,000 years old. It grows on an island in Lac Duparquet in Abitibi. What's more, on the shores of this same lake, researchers from the Université du Québec à Montréal identified some thirty individuals more than 500 years old.

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