Mr. E. G. Joly de Lotbiniert 



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Mr. E. G* Joly dc Lotbinicrc. 



In the death of Mr. E. 0. Joly de 

 Lotbiniere at the family residence 

 at Point Platon Hear the city of 

 Quebec Canada loses one of her lead- 

 ing and most patriotic citizens and 

 the Canadian Forestry Association 

 one of its most enthusiastic and un- 

 tiring supporters, while a wide circle 

 mourn a most true and devoted 

 friend. On Friday, July 14, Mr. de 

 Lotbiniere was in the city of Quebec 

 in his usual health. That evening 

 on returning home to Point Platon 

 he had a slight attack of acute in- 

 digestion. ITe was 

 much better in the 

 early |)art of Satur- 

 day. but he l)ecanie ill 

 again toward even- 

 ing and passed away 

 b e f o r e midnight, 

 heart failure being 

 the imme<liate cause 

 of death. Madame 

 de Lotbiniere and 

 their only son were 

 with liim at the time. 

 There is a peculiarly 

 pathetic note just 

 liere in that the son. 

 Alain, who graduated 

 in forestry under 

 Dr. Fernow at the 

 Tniversity of Toron- 

 to this spring, had 

 been in the Quebec 

 woods away frouj 

 home since the close of the univer- 

 sity term and came home only a few 

 days before in order to attend the 

 celebration of the anniversary of 

 the wedding of his father and 

 mother. 



Mr. Edmond Gustave Joly de Tjot- 

 biniere. the eldest son of the late 

 Sir Henri Jolv de Lotbiniere, was 

 born in the city of Quebec on Nov- 

 ember 12, 1859, and was therefore 

 in his fifty-second year. He was edu- 



cated at Bishon's College, Lennox- 

 ville, and studied law under his 

 father, who was a leading barrister 

 in Quebec. As a young man he took 

 an interest in military affairs and 

 was an officer in the 8th Royal Rifles, 

 Quebec. He was called to the bar and 

 practiced for some time but the de- 

 votion of the time of his father, Sir 

 Henri, to public affairs (he was at 

 different times Premier of Quebec, 

 Dominion Cabinet Minister, and 

 Lieut.-Governor of British Colum- 

 bia) threw the management of the 

 estate of ninety 

 thousand acres at Pt. 

 Platon upon the son, 

 who for about twen- 

 ty-five years past de- 

 voted himself to that 

 work and gave up 

 ilie practice of law. 

 Sir Henri Joly de 

 Lotbiniere, as is well 

 known, was one of 

 lathers of scientific 

 forestry in Canada, 

 and was the first 

 president of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. The estate 

 at Point Platon was 

 one of the old seign- 

 iories, and under 

 the seigniorial law 

 the holder was oblig- 

 ed to allot land to 

 settlers or tenants so long as he had 

 any unoccupied and these tenants 

 were to pay. in kind, a certain pro- 

 portion of the crop. Ahotit half the 

 Lotbiniere seigniory was taken up 

 by settlers in this way before the 

 abolition of seigniorial tenure in 

 1856. but by the provisions in the 

 leases made by Sir Henri and his 

 father a considerable proportion of 

 the settled area is reserved in per- 

 petual wood lots. The remaining 



