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there. North of Lake St John there is some good pine, and so on the 

 River Shipsha, Lower Saguenay, Ste. Marguerite, and Petit Ste. Jean. 

 As for the large rivers that flow into Lake St John the large pine has 

 nearly all disappeared on the lower part, and the remainder of the course 

 of these rivers is through an immense burnt wilderness, where even the 

 vegetable soil has been destroyed by fire. The large district between the 

 St Maurice and the Ottawa is thinned through and through, and the 

 lumberman of the Ottawa has met his fellow-workman of the St Maurice 

 on the shores of Lake Manooran. Northward from Lake Temiscamingue 

 and the Montreal river there is not much country before the height of 

 land is reached, the watershed dividing the streams that flow into the 

 St Lawrence from those that flow into Hudson Bay. Fine pine grows 

 there along the head waters of the Ottawa. Over this height of land the 

 streams all run north, and the rivers flowing into Hudson Bay, the\ 

 Rupert, the Notway, and the Hurricanaw will doubtless with the open- 

 ing of navigation through Hudson Straits encourage our lumbermen to- 

 turn their efforts in that direction, and a supply of timber may be got at 

 there not only for export, but also largely for home consumption in the 

 treeless districts of the great North- West There remains in all the above 

 districts a great deal of spruce and second rate pine, which for generations 

 to come will meet our local wants with care ; but the first quality pine, 

 requisite to keep up our great timber export trade to its standard, is 

 getting, with the exception of British Columbia, scarce and inaccessible. 



Respecting the supply of pine lumber remaining some startling facts 

 were mentioned at the Forestry Convention in Montreal, in 1882, by Mr. 

 Little and other well known authorities on this subject Mr. Little 

 stated that in Canada (this apparently was not inclusive of British 

 Columbia) we have but ten thousand million feet of first quality pine 

 (Quebec 5,000, Ontario 3,500, and the Maritime Provinces 1,500) remain- 

 ing, while we are at present cutting one thousand million feet annually. 

 At this calculation it is only a question of time when the supply will 

 cease. 



TIMBER DISTRICTS OF THE PROVINCES AND THEIR TREES. 



PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. 



It is a difficult matter to state with any accuracy the timber districts 

 of Ontario, as no inventory of the total amount of that " stock" has been 

 taken for many years. Mr. Phipps in his report to the Ontario Govern- 

 ment on the necessity of preserving and replanting forests, says, the 

 north-west territory of Ontario, or that part known as the disputed boun- 



