Canadian forestry journal 



Vol. IX. Ottawa, Canada, Septembei 



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CANADIAN FORESTRY JOURNAL, 



Published monthly by the 



Cahadian Forkstry Association, 



Canadian Building, 



Ottawa, Canada. 



Devoted to the cause of forest conservation. 



Subscription $1 per year. 



Advertising Rates on Application. 



CONTENTS: Page. 



Editorial 129 



The Peace River Valley 131 



Dry Weather Causes Fires 133 



Commission of Conservation Active.. 134 



Death of Hon. John Sharpies 135 



Exhibit of Native Woods (picture) . . 136 



Dominion Forestry Branch Doings. . . 137 



Quebec Forestry Notes 138 



With the Forest Engineers 139 



Work in the Rocky Mountain Reserve 142 



Douglas Malloch's New Book 142 



CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Patron, H. R. H. the Governor General. 



Honorary Pres., Rt. Hon. R. L. Borden. 



Honorary Past Pres., Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. 



President, Hon. W. A. Charlton. 



Vice-President, Wm. Power, M. P. 



Secretary, Jab. Lawler, Canadian Building, 



Slater St., Ottawa. 



Treasurer, Miss M. Robinson. 



Directors : William Little, Hiram Robinson, 



Aubrey White, E. Stewart W. B. Snowball, 



Thomas Southworth. Hon. W. C. Edwards, Geo. Y. 



Chown, John Hendry, Hon. Sydney Fisher, R. H. 



Campbell, J. B. Miller, Gordon C. Edwards, Dr. B. E. 



Femow, EUwood Wilson, Senator Bostock, F. C. 



Whitman, G. C. Pich«, Alex. MacLaurin: Mgr. O. E. 



Mathieu, Bishop of Regina; A. P. Stevenson, Wm. 



Pearce, C. E. E, Ussher. Denis Murphy, C. Jackson 



Booth. Wm. Price, J. W. Harkom, A. S. Goodeve, 



W. C. J. HaU, J. 8. Dennis, J. B. White, E. J. 



Zavits. Geo. Chahoon Jr., R. D. Prettie. 



TMTlt.>rlal Vlcc-Prealdenta : 



Ontario: — Hon. W. H. Hearst. 

 Quebec:— Hon. Jules AUard. 

 New Brunswick: — Hon. J. H. Flemminc. 

 Nora Sootta: — Hon. O. T. Daniels. 

 Manitoba:— Hon. R. P. Roblin. 

 Prince Edward Island: — Hon. J. A. Maiheson. 

 Saskatchewan-— His Honor G. W. Brown. 

 AlberU:— Hon. A. L. Sifton. 

 British Columbia:— Hon. W. R. Ross. 

 Yukon: — Geo. Black. Commissioner. 

 Mackensie:— F. D. Wilson. 

 Keewatin: — His Honor D. C. Cameron. 

 Ungava: — His Grace Mgr. Brucheei, Archbishop of 

 MoBUeal. 



THE IR^I^IPEG CONV, 



SEE 27 ] 



passed, ^^^t^l 

 steadying 



TION. 



of 



attendance, in inteteTri;ni a prairie 

 centre not previously known to be in- 

 terested in forestry) and in the tone 

 of the papers and discussion; and 

 steadying, humbling if you will, in 

 drawing attention to the smallness of 

 the work yet done in the vast field 

 that ought to be covered. 



The Winnipeg Convention was the 

 first attempt to carry the war of for- 

 estry propaganda into central Can- 

 ada. This is not overlooking the suc- 

 cessful meeting at Regina in 1909 but 

 that was rather a gathering of work- 

 ers than an attempt to awaken the 

 general public to the need of conser- 

 vation. This, then was the first or- 

 ganized campaign, and on the whole 

 the results were encouraging. The 

 numbers were not as large as those 

 at Quebec or Ottawa or Victoria but 

 then, up to the present, Winnipeg 

 has been looked upon as anything 

 rather than a timber or forestry cen- 

 ter. It was not easy to fix a date for 

 tlie meeting and the one selected had 

 as its chief disadvantage the fact that 

 it came in the same week as the Win- 

 nipeg Exhibition. Some people were 

 k(»pt away by the fear that the hotels 

 would be overcrowded but the chief 

 difficulty to be apprehended was that 

 of the newspapers being so crowded 

 with Exhibition reports that forestry 

 matters would get scant space. As it 

 turned out, however, the Winnipeg 

 daily newspapers, weeklies and trade 

 journals took up forest conservation 

 with energy, and during and preced- 

 ing the convention scores of columns 

 of well-informed and appreciative 



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