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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Canadian Department 



Ell WOOD Wilson 

 Secretary Canadian Society Forest Engineers 



and studies. They all hold the rank of 

 District Inspector. 



The Canadian Forestry Association has 

 just moved into new and commodious quar- 

 ters in the Booth Building. Ottawa, and 

 will now have every facility for carrying 

 on the excellent campaign for the proper 

 use of our timber resources so well started 

 by the Secretary, Mr. Robson Black. 



Mr. Black's investigation of the "fake 

 settler" question in Quebec has aroused 

 general interest and will do a great deal to 

 finally stop this abuse and hold up the 

 hands of the Minister of Lands and For- 

 ests, Mr. AUard, who has found this one 

 of the difficult questions of his administra- 

 tion and has done his best to stop it. 



Mr. R. R. Bradley, Forester for the New 

 Brunswick Railway Company, will estab- 

 lish a forest nursery in the spring and 

 commence the reforestation of lands owned 

 by that Company. 



A very interesting forest is to be seen 

 at Oka, Quebec, where is situated the 

 Trappist Monastery which is famed for its 

 cheese. Twenty-six years ago the drifting 

 sands of that neighborhood commenced to 

 threaten the village, Father Lefebvre en- 

 gaged children and Indians to go to the 

 woods and bring out pine seedlings for 

 which he paid two to five sous. Sixty-five 

 thousand were planted out and of these it 

 is estimated not more than five thousand 

 died. Today the trees in this forest are 

 twenty-five to thirty feet high. The sands 

 were checked and a great asset given to 

 this section. This forest is an added at- 

 traction to anyone visiting the monastery 

 and reflects great credit on the grave priest 

 who had imagination enough to look into 

 tlie future. 



A forest expert after a trip through a 

 certain section of northern Canada esti- 

 mates the loss of timber from forest fires 

 in the last thirty years at 16,000,000,000 

 feet which at fifty cents per thousand 

 would mean a loss of eight inillion dollars. 



Mr. Albert Grigg, M. P. for Algoma, has 

 been appointed Deputy Minister of Lands 

 and Forests for Ontario, to succeed the 

 late Aubrey White. Mr. Grigg was born 

 in Ontario in 1873 and was Mayor of 

 Bruce Mines and a pioneer of the Algoma 

 District where he held many positions of 

 public trust. He was first elected to tlie 

 Ontario Legislature in 1908 and again in 

 1911 and 1914 and is a forceful and inter- 

 esting speaker and is regarded as one of 

 the most promising members of his party. 

 He is progressive in spirit and is well ac- 

 quainted with the conditions in the forest 



districts of his Province. Wake up, On- 

 tario. 



Mr. J. R. Booth, the pioneer lumberman 

 of Ottawa, has caused to be piled ready 

 for burning at a safe time, inflamable 

 debris on a narrow strip of his limits 

 parallel to a portion of the Canadian 

 Northern Railroad east of North Bay. 

 This is a progressive step and it is hoped 

 that it will soon be followed by other limit 

 holders. 



The last issue of Conservation, the or- 

 gan of the Commission of Conservation 

 of the Dominion Government, makes the 

 statement that during the construction of 

 the Hudson Bay Railway five hundred 

 thousand acres of timberland have been 

 burnt due to defective equipment used by 

 the contractors and to carelessness on 

 their part. This is the history of all rail- 

 way construction in Canada, but with this 

 difference: During the construction of 

 the National Transcontinental through 

 Quebec a part of the line was patrolled by 

 the limit holders in cooperation with the 

 contractors and with the Department of 

 Railways and Canals and the Quebec gov- 

 ernment, and very little was burnt on this 

 section and an example set for future 

 work. This work was called to the atten- 

 tion of the Hon. Minister of Railways and 

 Canals. It is little short of criminal for 

 such a thing to happen ; to have it happen 

 through the fault of a private corporation 

 is bad enough, but to have it happen on 

 work under the authority and supervision 

 of a Government Department is still worse. 

 What can be said to private corporations 

 and persons about preventing forest fires 

 when the Dominion Government itself is 

 guilty of such negligence as this? Why 

 attempt to protect the Government lands 

 from fire, why prosecute a few settlers, 

 when a Government Department burns up 

 Government lands itself? Have any body 

 of men, chosen to care for the people's 

 interests, the right to be so negligent, so 

 careless, and so entirely without regard 

 for the property of the public. It is high 

 tiiTie that the ever-patient public speak 

 with no uncertain voice and put a stop to 

 such negligence. 



Messrs. B. Guerin, Geo. H. Boisvert, 

 and Ernest Menard, graduates of the Laval 

 Forestry School and now of the Quebec 

 Forest Service, have been elected to active 

 membership in the Canadian Society of 

 Forest Engineers. These gentlemen have 

 done much in the way of exploration work 

 in the northern part of the Province and 

 have made some very interesting reports 



On September 39 a get-together meet- 

 ing of the Coast Rangers of the Dominion 

 Forest Service was held at New West- 

 minster, B. C, and men from all parts of 

 the Dominion were present. The consen- 

 sus of opinion of the meeting was that 

 the burden of proof should rest on the 

 man who owned the land on which a fire 

 started to prove that it was not set by him. 

 The meeting was a very enjoyable one 

 and much valuable information was brought 

 out and exchanged. 



British Columbia Notes 



-\ccording to the timber returns for the 

 month of September issued by the Minister 

 of Lands, the total output of sawlogs for 

 the Province, as shown by the scaling fig- 

 ures, amounted to 92,080,493 feet board 

 measure, while 361,911 lineal feet of poles, 

 piles, and props, together with 29,313 cords 

 of railway ties, fence posts, shingle bolts, 

 etc., were also scaled for royalty during the 

 month under review. The figures for the 

 Vancouver district were 53,001,924 feet 

 board measure sawlogs, 14,394 lineal feet 

 piles, etc., and 16,264 cords, ties, bolts, etc., 

 the Island district contributing 5,307,218 

 feet sawlogs, in addition to 2,520 lineal 

 feet piles. In the Prince Rupert district 

 there were scaled 954,135 feet sawlogs, 

 while the totals under the same heading 

 for the Cranbrook, Nelson and Vernon dis- 

 tricts were respectively 21,595,575 feet, 7,- 

 135,390 feet, and 3,349,603 feet. Poles, 

 piles and props to the total of 328,304 

 lineal feet were scaled in the Nelson dis- 

 trict, and in the Cranbrook division to the 

 total of 15,013 lineal feet. 



Timber sales recorded during September 

 cover an estimated total of 7.338,000 feet 

 sawlogs, and 3,030 cords of shingle bolts, 

 estimated to produce a total revenue of 

 $12,876. 



The Hon. W. R. Ross is advised by the 

 Department of Trade and Commerce at 

 Ottawa, that the exhibits of British Colum- 

 bia lumber recently sent to Australia are 

 being shown at the Royal Exchange, Syd- 

 ney, and will afterwards be featured at an 

 approaching architectural exhibition. The 

 Canadian Trade Commissioner at Mel- 

 bourne, to whom the exhibits were con- 

 signed, is arranging for timber importers, 

 builders, and others who are interested to 

 view them, and reports that the varied and 

 beautiful finish which British Columbia 

 Douglas fir takes has been the subject of 

 considerable comment. It will be remem- 

 bered that a number of these exhibits were 

 sent abroad earlier in the year, and, as in 

 the case of the Sydney display, have at- 

 tracted much attention in the important 

 trade centers at which they have been 

 placed. 



