DIRECTORS' REPORT. 



Adopted at thp Annual Business Meeting of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, Feb. 5, 1913. 



The Board of Directors beg to submit 

 the following report of business done 

 during the year 1912: — 



According to Section VI. of the Consti- 

 tution, the following Territorial Vice- 

 Presidents were appointed: 



Ontario.— Hon. W. H. Hearst. 



Quebec — Hon. Jules Allard. 



New Brunswick — Hon. J. K. Flemming. 



Nova Scotia — Son. G. H. Murray. 



Manitoba — Hon. E. P. Roblin. 



Prince Edward Island — Hon. J. A. Mathe- 

 son. 



Saskatchewan — His Honor G. W. Brown. 

 . Alberta — Hon. A. L. Sifton. 



British Columbia — Hon. W. R. Ross. 



Yukon — Oeo. Black, Commissioner. 



Mackenzie — F. D. Wilson. 



Keewatin— His Honor D. C, Cameron. 



Ungava — His Grace, Mgr. Bruchesi, Arch- 

 bishop of Montreal. 



The Thirteenth Annual Meeting was held 

 at the same time as the Ottawa Convention. 

 This Convention was eminently successful 

 ?ind resulted in stimulating further interest 

 in the work of forest conservation, particu- 

 larly in that part .of it which has to do with 

 an efficient personnel in the various forest 

 services. The presence of the Prime Min- 

 ister, the Leader of the Opposition, and 

 eminent foresters from the United States, 

 added to the weight of the meeting. The 

 fact that the Convention was held at the 

 same time as the Annual Meeting of the 

 Canadian Lumbermen's Association, and 

 that some of the functions were in a measure 

 of a joint character, increased its interest 

 and importance. 



The President elected 9,t that meeting was 

 Mr. John Hendry, of Vancouver, who was 

 at the time in Europe. Mr. Hendry met in 

 London in the early spring Hon. Richard 

 McBride, who renewed an invitation that 

 had been made by the Government of Bri- 

 tish Columbia to hold a Convention in Vic- 

 toria, B.C. After considerable correspon- 

 dence it was decided by the Directors to 

 meet in Victoria on Sept. 4, 5 and 6. His 

 Royal Highness the Governor General grac- 

 iously consented to open the Convention if 

 it should be held during the time of his visit 

 to the coast, but, as in the end it was found 

 that this would be impossible, the Conven- 

 tion was opened by Sir Richard McBride, 

 Premier of British Columbia, and was in all 

 respects successful. There was an unexpect- 

 edly large attendance from Eastern Canada. 



All the provinces were officially represented 

 except Nova Scotia and Prince Edward 

 Island, the numbers attending from Quebec 

 and Ontario being particularly large. The 

 new British Columbia forest act which went 

 into force on July 1 was naturally the chief 

 subject of discussion. Hon. W. R. Ross, 

 Minister of Lands, outlined the Govern- 

 ment's position, while representatives of 

 British Columbia limit holders discussed the 

 new law very carefully. Besides this the 

 forest conservation work in other provinces 

 was dealt with and the resolutions passed 

 were not confined to British Columbia, but 

 were of a general character. Here as at 

 Ottawa particular attention was paid to the 

 subject of efficiency in the forest service. 

 The full particulars of the Ottawa Con- 

 vention have" already appeared in the Annual 

 Report for 1912, and the full report of the 

 Victoria Convention will appear in the An^ 

 nual Report for 1913, which will be issued 

 in a few weeks. 



Progress in forest . conservation has been 

 steady in Canada during the year. The 

 work of the Dominion and the large forest 

 provinces has gone on developing for the 

 most part without any sudden changes. It 

 Mould appear that the total expenditure in 

 1912 on forest protection by federal and 

 provincial governments and by private indi- 

 viduals and corporations amounted to be- 

 tween one million and one million and a 

 half dollars. 



The Dominion Forestry Branch in addi- 

 tion to its protective, tree-planting and in- 

 vestigating work, made an examination for 

 the purpose of ascertaining whether certain 

 areas in the Railway Belt in British Colum- 

 bia, and others south of Lesser Slave Lake 

 in Alberta, in northern Saskatchewan and 

 in south eastern Manitoba should be put into 

 forest reserves. 



In British Columbia the new forest act 

 which has been in preparation (including 

 the work of the forest commission) for some 

 years, went into force on July 1, and the 

 organization of the forest service under the 

 same resulted in the employment of a num- 

 ber of forest engineers, and a largely in- 

 creased force of rangers. 



In Ontario the government and the limit 

 holders had over one thousand fire rangers 

 in th^ field during the danger season. 



In Quebec the St. Maurice Valley Forest 

 Protective Association carried out its first 

 season's work with success, and the plan of 



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