THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



By Ellwood Wilson 



A NOTHER tragedy has been added 

 / \ to the long list of those which 

 / V a-re told around the camp fires. 

 About the sixteenth of Novem- 

 ber Mr. Lawrence S. Page, in charge of 

 lumbering operations in the Shaw- 

 enegan District for The Gres Falls Co., 

 started into the woods with three 

 guides. After about two weeks, as 

 nothing was heard of them, a search 

 was instituted and their canoe and Mr. 

 Page's hat were foimd frozen in the ice 

 in the narrows between Lac Caribou 

 and Lac des lies. The ice was cut out 

 near where the canoe was found and 

 the bodies discovered in about twelve 

 feet of water and about twenty-five 

 feet from shore, that of Mr. Page being 

 about fifteen feet nearer shore than his 

 companions. There were two long 

 cuts in the sides of the canoe and it is 

 probable that they were crossing the 

 lake just at dusk, being cold and in a 

 hurry to reach camp, and ran at a good 

 rate of speed against the sharp shore 

 ice and that this cut the canoe which 

 must have filled and sunk very quickly. 

 Encumbered with heavy clothes, 

 nimibed by the icy water and unable to 

 climb out on the thin ice which broke 

 under them they were unable to reach 

 shore. Only those who have had similar 

 experiences and escaped know the 

 agony that must have been theirs when 

 they found that the struggle was too 



much for them. Mr. Page leaves a 

 wife and four small children. 



Mr. James Lawler, Secretary of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association, has just 

 made a lecture trip to Grand' Mere, and 

 Shawenegan Falls where his excellent 

 illustrated lectiires on the Forests of 

 Canada were much enjoyed. 



Mr. W. C. J. Hall, Chief of the Forest 

 Protection Service of Quebec, has re- 

 signed from the Canadian Society of 

 Forest Engineers. 



The Canadian Society of Forest 

 Engineers is about to become incor- 

 porated under The Ontario Compa- 

 nies Act, and has appointed Messrs. 

 Jacombe, of the Dominion Forestry 

 Service, Zavitz, Forester of Ontario, 

 and Leavitt, Forester of the Conserva- 

 tion Commission, to revise and con- 

 solidate the constitution. 



The report of the Commission of 

 Conservation for 1914 is just out and is 

 a very comprehensive and interesting 

 volume, covering practically every sub- 

 ject of interest to national development. 

 The Forestry Section reports on extensive 

 investigations of forest conditions in 

 British Columbia, Saskatchewan, New 

 Brunswick and Ontario. Such matters 

 control of watersheds, rates of 



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