THE CANADIAN DEPARMENT 



By Elwood Wilson 



Mr. R. H. Campbell, Chief of the 

 Dominion Forest Service, has been 

 made an honorary member of the Royal 

 Scottish Arboricultiiral Society and has 

 gone to Scotland to receive this honor. 



On account of the war, the Canadian 

 Forestry Association has postponed the 

 convention, which was to have been 

 held in Halifax in September. 



The following- executive committees 

 have been elected by the Canadian So- 

 ciety of Forest Engineers. Maritime 

 Provinces and Quebec, G. C. Piche, A. 

 Bedard and R. B. Miller. Ontario, 

 Clyde Leavitt. T. W. D wight and J. H. 

 White. Prairie Provinces, Norman M. 

 Ross, W. Alden and L. M. Ellis. 



A very curious incident happened to 

 one of the fire-rangers of the St. 

 Maurice Forest Protective Association 

 last week. He was proceeding down 

 the Mattawin River in a canoe and was 

 just about to land at a portage around 

 a rapid when a large cow moose with 

 two calves came out on the bank and 

 started into the water to attack the 

 canoe. The men shouted and tried to 

 drive her away, but she kept on coming 

 into the water and in trying to avoid 

 her the canoe was caught and swept 

 down the rapids, swamping it. and the 

 men barely escaped with their lives, los- 

 ing part of their baggage. 



The Forest Products Laboratory of 

 Canada, located at McGill University, 

 in Montreal, will be in charge of Dr. 

 J. S. Bates, assisted by Mr. 6. F. Bry- 

 ant, B. S. There will be a complete 

 outfit of paper making machinery and 

 every effort will be made to help 

 Canadian Manufacturers in the solving 

 of their problems. 



The town of Hearst, in Northern 

 Ontario, was wiped out by a forest fire 

 on June ninth. The loss was about 



684 



$50,000. There had been small fires in 

 the neighborhood for some time, but 

 no attention was paid to them. The 

 fire protection system in Ontario leaves 

 much to be desired. 



The Forestry Division of the Lauren- 

 tide Co., Ltd., has just finished a survey 

 and map of 2350 square miles showing 

 all drianage, roads, portages and trails, 

 lookout stations, telephone lines and 

 timber conditions. This is the first com- 

 plete map ever made of this section and 

 in order to be of use about 500 square 

 miles of contiguous territory has been 

 mapped. The average error of closure 

 of traverses is one in 300 and the scale 

 of the finished map is two miles to 

 the inch. Maps of each section of 50 

 square miles on a scale of three-quart- 

 ers of a mile to one inch have also been 

 completed showing the location and 

 amount of green timber, the burnt and 

 cut over areas, etc. This Company is 

 also importing reindeer from Dr. Gren- 

 fell's herd in Newfoundland to take the 

 place of slad dogs which are very 

 troublesome to keep in summer and are 

 not very efficient in winter. This ex- 

 periment is being watched with much 

 interest. If successful some of these 

 deer will be supplied to the Indians who 

 are finding the game supply getting 

 pretty short. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow and Alessrs. Lea- 

 vitt and Wilson were the guests of Mr. 

 W. R. Brown and the Eastern Forest- 

 ers' Society, at Berlin and Gorham. N. 

 H., and had a most enjoyable time. 



The Quebec Government will sell at 

 auction during these months some large 

 timber tracts and some valuable water 

 powers. 



The area of British Columbia is 243,- 

 000,000 acres, of which approximately 

 125,000,000 acres is capable of produc- 

 ing merchantable timber. Actuallv the 



