Canadian forestrp Journal 



VOL. XIV. 



OTTAWA, CANADA, APRIL, 1919 



No. 3 



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RETURNED SOLDIERS IN FORESTRY COURSES 



Five Months' Training Scheme Successfully 



Under Way at University of British 



Columbia. 



At the University of British Columbia, under 

 the charge of the Department of Soldiers' Civil 

 Re-Establishment, is being given a five months' 

 course in Forestry for returned Canadian sol- 

 diers, preparing them for the permanent forest 

 ranger positions in British Columbia and Domin- 

 ion Forest Branches. The present session was 

 instituted after a shorl course of four weeks was 

 tried out last spring, the successful results of the 

 preliminary course leading to the installation of 

 the longer period of study as being given now. 



In determining upon the desirability of the 

 course and the subjects to be given the men. 



the heads of the forest branches in British 

 Columbia and Alberta were consulted, while the 

 results of the work given at the short courses 

 in Forestry at the University of Washington 

 were thoroughly looked into before decisions 

 were made. 



Instruction commenced in the buildings of the 

 University of British Columbia on Nov. 22, 

 1918; the opening of the course, on schedule 

 time, originally set for Nov. I, being delayed 

 by the Spanish influenza epidemic. Eleven re- 

 turned men were on hand the opening day, and 

 before the end of the first month's instruction 



