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Forestry Association, although the greater part 

 of the financial maintenance of three of them 

 was borne by the Quebec Forest Service and 

 the Dominion Forestry Branch. 



A total of 150 public meetings wer; held 

 between Spring and Fall on the subject of forest 

 protection. This is about three times the average 

 number in previous years. 



Use of Lantern Slides. 



Audiences at motion picture theatres are 

 susceptible to appeals on forest protection 

 matters and this avenue has been utilized by 

 obtaining the co-operation of theatres in most 

 of the forested districts across the Dominion. A 

 weekly service of lantern-slide cartoons and 

 printed appeals were set in operation last Spring 

 and continued until the Fall months. Local 

 reports declare that the slides were well em- 

 ences. Most theatre managers have agreed to 

 ployed and were happily received by ths audi- 

 carry out the plan in 1919 as well. 



Motion pictures are now a regular part of the 

 Association's lecture equipment and some of our 

 films have been made use of in circuits of motion 

 picture theatres. 



Tobacco Company's Help. 



Of several pieces of educational work of a 

 like nature, we might mention particularly the 

 arrangement made with the Imperial Tobacco 

 Company, Montreal, through the courtesy of Sir 

 Mortimer Davis, to place in the cigarette pack- 

 ages sold through Canada a series of printed 

 slips, asking the smoker to extinguish match and 

 cigarette before throwing away. 



Our school lecture sets, which now number 

 five, were in active employment during the first 

 part of the year. The closing of schools and 



the need of crowding the curriculum to make up 

 for lost time made it necessary for us to with- 

 draw the service partly during the fall months. 

 These sets are again in operation and with their 

 fifty colored lantern slides and lecturer's manu- 

 script have proved a popular plan of reaching 

 schools and churches. 



In the spring months forty school boards or 

 private citizens used these sets in their localities, 

 often employing the equipment night after night 

 as in Hamilton and London, to reach all the 

 local teachers and children. 



Western Lectures. 



Owing to the distance from Ottawa the tra- 

 velling sets have not been available to the 

 prairie provinces or British Columbia. This has 

 now been overcome by stationing at the Western 

 offices of the Dominion Forestry Branch and at 

 Vancouver, special travelling outfits so that ap- 

 plications from local speakers can be filled 

 with minimum of delay and cost for expressage. 



It is well realised that the Association's efforts 

 to develop educative enterprises in combatting 

 forest fires cannot be fully effective unless co- 

 ordinated with the proper machinery of law and 

 administration. This has rendered necessary two 

 chief campaigns of more or less intensive nature, 

 one in Alberta to secure a Forest Protection Act, 

 the other in Nova Scotia to have a Provincial 

 Forester appointed. 



Campaign in Alberta. 



Through our members in Alberta, with the aid 

 of the newspapers. Boards of Trade and other 

 public bodies, we brought forcibly to the atten- 

 tion of the Government the inconsistency and 

 danger of the present freedom in setting fires in 



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