APPENDIX G CLXV 



XIX. — Report of the Canadian Forestry Association. 

 Presented by Jas. Lawler, Secretary, Delegate. 



The Canadian Forestry Association was founded in the yesiv 1900 

 for the purpose of arousing the public to the need of immediate and 

 prompt action in order to save the forests of Canada and to develop 

 them in such a way that those forests now occupying lands unsuited for 

 agriculture may be kept producing a perpetual supply of timber, and 

 also extending their beneficial influence in the wa}' of regulating stream 

 flow, the protection of agriculture both directly and by forming a cover 

 for valuable insectiverous birds.. 



The growth of the Association and the interest taken in it l^y men 

 in all walks of private and public life has shown how necessary such a 

 society is in Canada. During the period since its formation the Asso- 

 ciation has striven by means of annual conventions in the different 

 provinces, b}' illustrated lectures, pulDlic meetings and b}- the issuing of 

 literature, including an Annual Report and the Canadian Forestry 

 Journal, to advance the objects for which it stands. And while very 

 much remains to be done yet the results achieved in the past ten years, 

 and particularly the changed attitude of the public, give much encourage- 

 ment to the friends of forest conservation. During 1912 the work was 

 carried on on the usual lines with vigor. There were two conventions 

 national in scope, the first held in Ottawa in February, and opened in 

 the unavoidable absence of His Royal Highness the Governor General, 

 the Patron of the Association, by the Right Honorable R. L. Borden, 

 P.C., Premier of Canada; and the second in September in Victoria, B.C., 

 opened by the Honorable Sir Richard McBride, Prime Minister of 

 British Columbia. Both these conventions were largely attended, 

 practically all the provinces, as well as the Dominion Government being 

 represented in each, while there was also on both occasions a good num- 

 ber of experienced forest engineers from the United States. At these 

 Conventions the subjects discussed were, forest protection from fire and 

 insects, proper methods of harvesting the timber crop, the most eco- 

 nomical utilization of the trees when cut, the utilization of by-products, 

 the disposal of debris from lumbering operations, forest fire legislation, 

 forest reserves, forestry education, the necessity for a Dominion labora- 

 tory for testing woods, oil-burning locomotives in forest districts, wood 

 preservation, the railways and forestry. Dominion Ciovernment tree 

 planting on the prairies, the reforestation of sand lands and the securing 

 of the most efficient personnel in the different forest ser\'ices in Canada 

 by means of the adoption of such Civil Service regulations as would en- 

 sure appointment and promotion on merit. 



