THE FORESTS OF CANADA. 17 



Alaska and the Barren Grounds of the Donnnion, and southerly with a varying Ijorder until 

 it meets and intermingles with the poplar forests of the Northwest Territories. Passing 

 still eastward the poplar mixes with it to the south until after passing Lake Superior it 

 gradually merges into the deciduous forests of Ontario, southern Quebec and the elevated 

 and interior region of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. 



After all has been said about our waste both by myself and others it is evident that we 

 have woodland enough in the north to supply every demand that may be made upon it for 

 many generations, but like everything that is valuable, it is hard to get at. When it will 

 be wanted none can say, but that it is therein incalculable (quantities is alisolutely certain. 

 A belt 200 miles deep and 3,000 miles wide gives us an area of 600,000 square miles, but we 

 are quite safe in estimating it at 1,000,000. The poplar forest and the mixed growth to the 

 north of it extends from Edmonton to Winnipeg, a distance of about 900 miles, and averages 

 over 50 miles in width, which gives an area of 45,000 square miles of aspen forest for the 

 use of the settlers who will by degrees occupy this region, for the aspen districts have, as a 

 rule, good soil. 



Sec. IV , 1894. 3. 



