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What Public Ownership of Forests 

 Means in Canada 



Crown lands, including timber lands, 

 in Canada are administered in most cases 

 by the provinces in which they are situ- 

 ated. In the three prairie provinces 

 (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta), 

 in the railway belt (a strip twenty miles 

 on each side of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway's main line through British Col- 

 umbia) and in the Peace River block in 

 northern British Columbia the crown 

 lands are administered by the Dominion 

 Government. In this area there are few 

 privately owned timber lands other than 

 farmers' woodlots. Riglits to cut timber 

 are granted but tbe title of tbc land re- 

 mains in the Crown. In Nova Scotia 

 the greater part of the timber land has 

 passed into private ownership. In New 

 Brunswick over seven thousand square 



miles of forest land is owned outright by 

 railway companies and other private 

 concerns or individuals. In Quebec 

 about six million acres have been so dis- 

 posed of and in Ontario about five mil- 

 lion acres. The policy of retaining the 

 title to all timber lands has been largely 

 followed in the Province of British Col- 

 umbia in the area under provincial con- 

 trol as well as in the federal areas. About 

 2,000 square miles of timber land is in 

 private ownership. 



The ownersliip of forests by towns 

 and communities, so common in Murope, 

 is almost unknown in Canada, although 

 efforts are being made to encourage the 

 establishment and maintenance of for- 

 ests of this nature. 



