Buy & Sell Hardwood Logs in Quebec

Quebec is Canada's largest producer of Eastern hardwood and one of the most heavily forested jurisdictions in the world — about 76.1 million hectares of forest, roughly a fifth of Canada's forested land. The commercial hardwood resource is concentrated in the sugar maple–yellow birch bioclimatic domain, which spans about 6.6 million hectares across the southern Laurentian plateau and the Appalachian hills. Sugar maple is the single most abundant hardwood, followed by red maple and yellow birch, with red oak, basswood, white ash and beech rounding out the merchantable mix.

The industry is built on a large public-land base — roughly 92% of Quebec's forest is publicly owned and managed under the province's allocation and royalty system — supplemented by tens of thousands of private woodlot owners who supply a meaningful share of the timber. Hardwood grade logs flow to a dense network of veneer plants, sawmills and component mills: Lauzon operates the largest hardwood sawmill in Canada at Thurso, Commonwealth Plywood is the country's leading hardwood rotary-veneer maker, and integrated players like Groupe Savoie and flooring brands such as Mercier pull large volumes of sugar maple and yellow birch. The annual allowable cut for high-density hardwoods runs near 7.8 million cubic metres.

Pricing is driven as much by export markets as by local supply. Quebec leads all provinces in forest-product exports — more than CAD $11.8 billion in a recent year — with about 74% going to the United States and roughly 20% to China, so U.S. flooring and cabinet demand and the CAD/USD exchange rate move log prices directly. After an unpredictable 2025, recent trade reporting frames 2026 cautiously: persistent structural undersupply that has been masked by soft demand, with availability expected to be reasonable early in the year. Treat the figures on this page as a planning reference and confirm current numbers with the MRNF and your mill before you sell.