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000. With this money there were 

 opened or re-opened 525 miles of pack 

 trails, there were purchased canoes, 

 axes, shovels, tents, and gasoline mo- 

 tors for railway patrol, and a begin- 

 ning made in erecting telephone lines 

 and in connecting these with exist- 

 ing telephone systems. The result 

 was that 97 incipient fires were 

 promptly extinguished and the asso- 

 ciation came through the year with 

 practically no loss. This year it is 

 proposed to extend the trails, to con- 

 nect up the telephone lines and to 

 erect lookout stations from which 

 watchmen may send out warnings to 

 headquarters so that a sufficient force 

 of men may be sent promptly to put 

 out the fire. The officers for the first 

 year were: President, ]\Ir. Alexander 

 MacLaurin, of Montreal; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Mr. W. R. Brown, fo Berlin, 

 N.H., and La Tuque, Que. ; Mana- 

 ger, Mr. H. Sorgius, of Three Rivers. 

 Owing to the illness of Mr. MacLaurin 

 which has necessitated a trip to the 

 south, and the occupation of Mr. 

 Brown with other features, these gen- 

 tlemen (though both are enthusiastic 

 over the work) retired and the new 

 officers elected were: President, Jos- 

 eph Dalton, Three Rivers; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, S. L. de Carteret, La Tuque; 

 Manager and Secretary, H. Sorgius, 

 Three Rivers. 



One of the successful features of 

 the gathering was the banquet at the 

 Place Viger Hotel when about twenty- 

 five gentlemen, members of the Asso- 

 ciation or interested in the work, dis- 

 cussed an excellent menu and after- 

 wards listened to a few pithy speeches 

 dealing with the subject in hand. The 

 toastmaster was Mr. EUwood Wilson 

 of Grand Mere, and at the table were 

 Hon. Jules Allard, Minister of Lands 

 and Forests, Quebec; and Messrs. W. 

 R. Brown ; R. H. Campbell, Dominion 

 Director of Forestry ; Joseph Dalton ; 

 Lt. Col. Hibbard, Member of the Que- 

 bec Utilities Commission; E. J. Za- 

 vitz, Guelph, Forester for the Ontario 

 Government; Clyde Leavitt, Chief 

 Fire Inspector of the Dominion Rail- 



way Commission ; W. C. J. Hall, Chief 

 of the Forest Protective Service, Que- 

 bec; Wm. Power, M.P., Quebec; J. 

 F. Grant, William Ritchie and Frank 

 Ritchie, Three Rivers; L. K. Mac- 

 Laurin, Montreal; B. M. Winegar, 

 C.P.R. Natural Resources Dept., 

 Montreal ; Gustave C. Piche, Chief of 

 the Quebec Forest Service ; Geo. Dan- 

 sereau, Montreal; James Lawler, Sec- 

 retary of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation, Ottawa; L. N. Ellis, C.P.R. 

 Forestry Dept, Calgary; H. E. Brin- 

 kerhoff, St. Jovite, Que. ; D. B. Brown, 

 La Tuque; M. C. Small, Grand Mere; 

 and H. Sorgius, Three Rivers. 



Hon. ]\Ir. Allard referred to the 

 good work of the Association and 

 promised that the Government would 

 support it more strongly in the com- 

 ing year. 



]\Ir. W. R. Brown told of the suc- 

 cess of similar associations in the 

 United States. 



IMr. W. C. J. Hall pointed to the 

 greatly increased efficiency of such 

 organizations as compared with indi- 

 vidual effort, and hoped to see the 

 time when five or six similar asso- 

 ciations would cover the entire forest 

 area of the province from the Ot- 

 tawa Valley to Gaspe. 



IVIr. R. H. Campbell said this was 

 the first organization of this kind in 

 Canada. It had been a great success 

 and he hoped to see the plan adopt- 

 ed not only in other parts of Quebec 

 but in western Canada. 



Mr. Clyde Leavitt indicated that 

 what the Railway Commission had 

 done in securing the co-operation of 

 the railways and federal and provin- 

 cial governments in patrolling rail- 

 way lines in the west they desired to 

 extend to the eastern lines, and in 

 this way there could be co-operation 

 in the St. JMaurice Valley of the limit 

 holders, the government and the rail- 

 ways and Railway Commission. 



Lt. Col. Hibbard brought this out 

 further by stating that the Quebec 

 Utilities Commission had considered 

 the regulations for fire protection of 



