Many Plants Projected 



The location at Three Rivers of the Wayagamack 

 Company and the St. Maurice Lumber Company (the 

 International Paper Company) will bring the district's 

 potential output of paper to about 800 tons a day, or 

 240,000 tons a year, in addition to 130,000 tons of treated 



Eulp, making this section of Quebec one of Canada's 

 rst pulp and paper areas. 



Plants projected or under construction would seem to 

 be almost as numerous as those already established and 

 operating. 



The Provincial Paper Mills are erecting a large plant 

 at Port Arthur. 



The British Columbia Minister of Lands recently 

 announced that a pulp and paper plant would be estab- 

 lished on Columbia Lake by an English concern. 



According to its agreement with the Ontario Govern- 

 ment, the Great Lakes Pulp and Paper Company is to 

 spend $2,000,000 within three years on the erection of a 

 paper mill at Fort William. 



The Bathurst Company Ltd. is installing a newsprint 

 machine in its mill at Bathurst, New Brunswick, which, 

 according to directors' announcement, will be in operation 

 in the spring and employing 500 persons. 



In British Columbia eastern capitalists have secured 

 an option on a site at New Westminster for a paper mill, 

 and a pulp and paper mill is projected for Prince George 

 in the same province. 



Certain American interests are erecting a plant at 

 Elko, in the Kootenay district of British Columbia, where 

 substantial limits of timber have been secured. Officials 

 state that the first unit of the plant, producing SO tons of 

 paper daily, will be operating in the fall of 1923. 



On the Pacific coast the Seaman Paper Company of 

 Chicago and Vancouver interests are reported as being 

 about to build a paper mill within 100 miles from the 

 great port. 



Michigan interests are said to be negotiating with the 

 city of Kingston, Ontario, with the object of building a 

 pulp and paper mill in the old capital. 



Activity from Coast to Coast 



All over the country, from coast to coast, this extension 

 to the Dominion's premier industrial activity is evident. 

 Especially significant is the development on the Pacific 

 coast. Pulp and paper is being manufactured there, and 

 being shipped down to California and other Pacific coast 

 states, as well as to Australia, New Zealand, Japan and 

 China. That such extension is urgently needed in that 

 region would seem to be evidenced in the fact that Oriental 

 buyers have placed large orders with firms in Three Rivers 

 in Quebec, and that steamers have this summer loaded 

 there for the Antipodes and the countries of the Orient. 



There can be little doubt but that the time is almost 

 in sight when Canada will leave the United States behind 

 in pulp and newsprint production, and assume the leader- 

 ship of the entire world in this regard. This she only 

 does through her possession of magnificent forests of 

 tremendous extent. Forests are not inexhaustible, as 

 other nations have discovered to their sorrow, and Canada 

 is taking steps to see that her forested areas are reasonably 

 conserved, maintaining their valuable supplies and retain- 

 ing for the Dominion's pulp and paper industry the 

 important place in economic affairs it occupies to-day, 

 and is coming increasingly to fill. In this national work, 

 for the greater part, the governments have the earnest 

 and sincere co operation of the various companies exploit- 

 ing them, instigated not only by a national duty, but a 

 realization that Canada is one of the few remaining lands 

 with extensive forest resources, and that their continued 

 prosperity lies in the intelligent manner in which they 

 exploit and conserve their holdings. 



Commercial Flying in Canada 



Commercial flying in Canada experienced 

 a period of readjustment during 1921, according 

 to a report of the Canadian Air Board, and 

 many of the small, insufficiently equipped 

 aeroplane companies were forced out of business 

 owing to the cost of operating machines and the 

 lack of public response to pleasure-flying due 

 to the fancy prices demanded. The tremendous 

 interest evinced in flying machines after the war 

 resulted in numerous companies springing up all 

 over the Dominion, and the public at that time 

 were willing and even eager to pay high prices 

 in order to experience the thrill of flying, but 

 the publicity given to accidents shook the public 

 faith in this form of travelling, with the inevit- 

 able result that many companies dependent 

 upon passenger travelling for their income were 

 forced to discontinue business. 



Great attention was paid to developing 

 aerial photography during the period under 

 review, and this phase of the industry rapidly 

 assumed a position of importance. Many 

 business companies, as well as the different 

 governments, engaged aerial photographers to 

 take photographs of their various undertakings. 

 The lumber, pulp and paper companies especi- 

 ally were active in aerial photography, many 

 having their entire timber limits photographed, 

 and from the prints were able to accurately 

 determine the amount of timber on their holdings, 

 thus saving a great amount of time and labor. 

 In the mountainous regions of British Columbia 

 the Geodetic Survey of Canada was greatly 

 assisted by aeroplanes, which were able to 

 penetrate where it was impossible for the sur- 

 veyors to go on foot 



In addition, aerial photography was utilized 

 to a great extent for advertising purposes. 

 Well-known scenic and historical points in the 

 Dominion have been photographed from the 

 air; moving pictures and post-cards made from 

 the prints have had a wide sale. Cities and 

 business corporations have also found it advan- 

 tageous to have aerial pictures taken of their 

 grounds, plants, public buildings, etc., both 

 for advertising and private records. 



Great Increase in Freight Carrying 



The work of aeroplanes in British Columbia 

 and Quebec in combating the forest-fire menace 

 is well-known to the Canadian public. Canada 

 now has twenty seaplanes and five land machines 

 in action on forest survey and forest-fire pre- 

 vention. Seventeen of these are Dominion Air 

 Board machines, and eight are owned by private 

 companies. Numerous forest fires have been 

 extinguished before they could get under way 

 and do untold damage due to the efficiency of 

 aeroplane patrol service in reporting these 

 outbreaks, and rushing fire-fighters and equip- 

 ment to the scene of the conflagration. This 



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