Commission of Conservation 



Brief Report of the Fourth Annual Meeting at Ottawa, Jan. 21, 22, 1913. 



The fourth annual meeting of the 

 Canadian Commission of Couserva- 

 tion held in the Carnegie Library. 

 Ottawa, Jan. 21 and 22, gave evi- 

 dence of steady growth. In the ab- 

 sence of Hon. Clifford Sifton in 

 Europe the meetings were presided 

 over by the Acting Chairman Hon. 

 W. C. Edwards, Chairman of the 

 Committee on Forestry. The ses- 

 sions were well attended and nearly 

 all the provinces were officially re- 

 presented. The first morning was 

 devoted to reports of work done dur- 

 ing the year as follows: 



Riblic Health— Dr. C.A.Hodgetts. 



Mines— W. J. Dick. 



Forests — Clyde Leavitt. 



Extension of forest reserves and 

 establishment of game preserves in 

 Alberta — R. H. Campbell. 



Fisheries, game and fur-bearing 

 animals — M. J. Patton. 



Fur-farming in Canada — J. "Walt- 

 er Jones. 



"Waters and water-powers — Leo. 

 G. Denis and Arthur V. White. 



Press and co-operating organiza- 

 tions — M. J. Patton. 



The first afternoon was taken up 

 by an illustrated address on the 

 Salmon Fisheries of British Colum- 

 bia by Prof. J. P. McMurrich. 

 Director of the Anatomical Depart- 

 ment, University of Toronto, and by 

 meetings of committees. 



At the Wednesday morning ses- 

 sion the following was the order of 

 the work : 



The Biological Board of Canada — 

 Dr. E. E. Prince. 



Trent Watershed Survey and Re- 

 conn aisance Survey of the Northern 

 Ontario Clay Belt— Dr. B. E. Fer- 

 now. 



Insect Food of Fresh-water Fish — 

 Dr. C. G. Hewitt. 



Work done by the Lands Commit- 

 tee during the past year — ^F. C. Nun- 

 nick. 



Address on work of Lands Com- 

 mittee — Dr. J. W. Robertson. 



Committee work and resolutions 

 occupied all of "Wednesday after- 

 noon, and in the evening there was 

 an illustrated address on Smoke Pre- 

 vention by Dr. R. G. Benner. 



Among the matters which related 

 to forest conservation were the fol- 

 lowing : 



Mr. Clyde Leavitt, Forester of the 

 Commission of Conservation and 

 Chief Fire Warden of the Board of 

 Railway Commissioners for Canada, 

 gave the results of organizing the 

 patrol work along the railway lines 

 in Western Canada and intimated 

 that in 1913 this work would be ex- 

 tended all over Eastern Canada as 

 well. 



Dominion Forestry Work. 



Mr. R. H. Campbell, Domniion 

 Director of Forestry, told of the 

 setting aside of the forest reserve on 

 the eastern slope of the Rocky 

 Mountains and of examinations 

 made in 1912 of areas in the Peace 

 River Country and in the northern 

 parts of Saskatchewan and INIani- 

 toba. He pointed out that not all of 

 the reserves were game preserves 

 but that such areas were being set 

 aside for this purpose as would best 

 conserve the characteristic game of 

 Western Canada. The number of 

 trees distributed by the Dominion 

 Government Forestry Branch to set- 

 tlers now amounted to 21.000.000 

 and four million more trees were 

 ready at Indian Head Forestry 

 Nursery Station to be sent out this 

 coming spring. These were for wind- 

 breaks and woodlots not for orna- 



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