CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



MEETING 



'T'HE Canadian Forestry Association 

 •*■ met in its ninth annual session in 

 the Board of Trade rooms, Montreal, 

 Province of Quebec, on Thursday and 

 Friday, March 12th and 13th. His 

 honor Sir L. J. Jette, Lieut.-Governor 

 of the Province of Quebec, opened the 

 meeting, which was presided over bv 

 the Association's president, H. M. 

 Price, of the city of Quebec. The 

 meeting was a large and enthusiastic 

 one, and was a success in every way. 



An announcement that brought 

 great gratification to the members of 

 the association and evoked hearty ap- 

 plause was made by Hon. Sidney Fish- 

 er, Dominion Minister of A.griculture, 

 who declared the intention of the Do- 

 minion Government to set aside, in a 

 short time, the whole of the eastern 

 slope of the Rocky Mountains, from 

 the international boundary as far 

 north as the timber goes, as a forest 

 reserve. The new reserve will em- 

 brace the entire belt of the foothills, 

 so that a vast area running north and 

 south over 1.500 miles will be pre- 

 served as a national asset of incalcul- 

 able value. In extent and magnitude 

 of virgin woodland, this will be no 

 doubt the greatest government forest 

 reserve on earth. 



An important feature of the meet- 

 ing was the use of both the French and 

 English languages ; papers were read 

 and discussions carried on in both 

 tongues, and two editions of the re- 

 port of the meeting will be published, 

 one in English and the other in 

 French. 



Much importance was also attached 

 to the active and enthusiastic interest 

 taken in the meeting by a number of 

 the higher Roman Catholic clergy of 

 the province. Among these were 

 Archbishop Bruchesi and Bishop Ra- 

 cicot, of the Archdiocese of Montreal, 

 and Canon Dauth, of Laval Universi- 

 ty, who gave addresses, and Monsig- 

 nor Laflamme, dean of the faculty of 



arts in Laval University, who gave an 

 admirable paper on "Le maniere dont 

 c[uelques cultivateurs usent le bois de 

 leurs terres" (The way in which some 

 farmers use the wood on their lands). 



yir. G. C. Piche, forester to the De- 

 partment of Crown Lands of the pro- 

 vince of Quebec, also gave a paper in 

 French, while papers in English were 

 contributed by Messrs. H. G. Joly de 

 Lotbiniere, A. H. D. Ross, E. Stew- 

 art, R. R. Bradley, and L. O. Arm- 

 strong and Dr. Robert Bell. 



The idea that the forests of the far 

 North were practically illimitable was 

 combated by several speakers who had 

 traversed these districts. Mr. E. 

 Stewart and Air. Macoun both stated 

 that very little was known of the real 

 timber resources of the North coun- 

 try, since explorers necessarily trav- 

 eled by the rivers, canoeing up in 

 summer, or taking the frozen surface 

 of the streams in winter. In this way 

 they traveled through the river bot- 

 toms, which were heavily wooded, and 

 thus were apt to get quite mistaken 

 ideas of the country, since the districts 

 back of the river valleys might be 

 quite useless from a timber point of 

 view. 



American publishers will be inter- 

 ested to know that an export duty on 

 both pulpwood and pulp was strongly 

 favored. 



On Thursday evening Prof. F. 

 Roth gave a lecture, illustrated by ster- 

 eopticon views, on "Forest Lands and 

 Agriculture," and at the noon hour, 

 on Friday, Dr. Fernow addressed the 

 Canadian Club of Montreal on Canad- 

 ian forest policy and problems. 



The necessity of protecting the for- 

 ests from fires, especially along the 

 line of the new transcontinental rail- 

 way, and the question of restricting the 

 export of pulpwood, also figured large- 

 ly in the discussions. 



Mr. Overton W. Price represented 

 the U. S. Forest Service. Mr. E. A. 



