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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



ELLWOOD WILSON 

 SECRETARY, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



During the past month the last important 

 section of Forest land in the Province of 

 Quebec was organized into a cooperative 

 fire protective association. The timberland 

 owners of the section lying north of the 

 St. Lawrence River, from the St. Maurice 

 River east to the River Laval and north 

 of Lake St. John, formed a cooperative 

 association, to be known as the Laurentian 

 Forest Protective Association, and chose 

 for their Manager Mr. R. L. Seaborne, who 

 was for several years a district inspector 

 for the St. Maurice Forest Protective Asso- 

 ciation. This association will protect about 

 20,000 square miles, covering some of the 

 most valuable timberlands in the Province 

 and owned by some of the most important 

 paper and lumber companies, .'\mong these 

 Price Bros. Co. are the largest limit 

 holders in Quebec. Hon. William Turner 

 is the President and Mr. Kernen, of the 

 Donnacona Pulp and Paper Co., is the Vice- 

 President and Mr. Paul G. Owen, the Sec- 

 retary-Treasurer. There are now four of 

 these cooperative associations which prac- 

 tically cover the most important timbered 

 areas under license from the Government, 

 the Ottawa, the St. Maurice, the Laurentian 

 and the Southern St. Lawrence, and these 



have all joined themselves into a federa- 

 tion, called the Quebec Forest Protective 

 Association, which will have charge of all 

 matters of general interest and will handle 

 the necessary literature and propaganda 

 work and also matters with the Provincial 

 and Federal Government Departments. 



The Laurentide Company, Limited, in 

 its planting operations this summer will 

 plant about one million trees. 



The Riordon Paper Company, Limited 

 will plant about two hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand trees in the neighborhood of St. Jovite. 



Robson Black, Secretary of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association, has just completed a 

 very successful lecture trip through the 

 Prairie Provinces and British Columbia, 

 where he has succeeded in interesting the 

 Government Departments concerned in fire 

 protection in introducing legislation requir- 

 ing permits for the setting of clearing fires 

 at any time during the summer months. 

 Now that the Prairie Provinces have taken 

 this action only New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia need to come into line. If all goes 

 well Canada will soon have adequate pro- 

 tection against forest fires from coast to 

 coast, which will be the most important step 

 in the conservation of our natural resources. 



The forest survey of the Province of 

 New Brunswick is making satisfactory 

 progress and is being carried on economic- 

 ally and thoroughly. The outstanding fact 

 demonstrated by this survey is the great fire 

 loss in the past and the necessity for a 

 rational and efficient fire protection service 

 for the future. 



The Quebec Forestry School students are 

 about to go into their spring quarters for 

 their field work at Burrill's Siding, where 

 they have a thousand acres of land on which 

 they can practice surveying and get experi- 

 ence in silviculture and dififerent methods 

 of lumbering. 



The Research Council of Canada has 

 decided to set aside one hundred square 

 miles in the Petawawa Military District in 

 Ontario. A sufiicient grant will be made to 

 carry out a thorough survey of this area 

 next summer, the work to be done by the 

 Dominion Forest Branch. Beyond the sur- 

 vey a program has not yet been prepared. 

 The Research Council for Scientific and 

 Industrial Work in Canada has been formed 

 for the purpose of ascertaining and tabu- 

 lating the various agencies which are now 

 carrying on research work in universities 

 and colleges, in Government laboratories, 

 business organizations and industries, scien- 

 tific associations or by private persons; also 

 to ascertain the lines of work being done 

 and the facilities and equipment and espe- 

 cially the man-power available for such 



