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Caiiadiaii J'orcstry Mayazinc, Xovcmbcr, i(^20 



What Dcz'clopment Means. 



A small concrete exanii)lc of the de- 

 velopnieiil of our tim])iT areas niic^ht 

 serve to emphasize the ])i)im. This year 

 His Excellency, the Governor of New- 

 foundland paid us a visit and Dr. Harry 

 L. I 'addon, my colleague for ei.2:ht years, 

 was able to point out the very u^reat ])ro- 

 bability of there beini;- hunger duriui;- the 

 winter as the fur prospect was very 

 small. His Excellency considered the 

 matter of sufficient importance to have a 

 government inspector go all the way 

 north from St. John to examine a boiler 

 left with other machinery on the coast 

 at the bottom of Hamilton Inlet, with a 

 view of having half a million or so of 

 lumber sawn to give work for trappers 

 who might make poor hunts. 



The one and only real need of Labra- 

 dor, as I see it, is some wage earning 

 industry, such as pulp and paper mak- 

 ing would afiford, and which we are con- 

 fident it will see in the next few years. 



To the Empire, the asset of a people 

 preserving our seafaring genius along 

 that coast, handy, hardy, self reliant and 

 resourceful, with true British loyalty 

 and ideals would be invaluable and wdio- 

 ever helps toward that end is a better 

 patriot than he who says "the North is a 

 cold country; every Englishman should 

 move to the softer places of earth." 

 Wilfrid Grenfell. 



The Labrador Boundary. 



The coast of Labrador was annexed 

 to Newfoundland in 1763. Ten years 

 later, owing to difficulties arising out of 

 grants made to a number of persons 

 under the French rule, it was changed 

 to Canadian jurisdiction. In 1809 it was 

 again transferred to Newfoundland and 

 has since been attached to this colony. 



The difficulty arises over different in- 

 terpretations of the words "coast of La- 

 brador." One view is that Newfound- 

 land can claim only the coast between 

 Blanc Sablon and Cape Chidley, with per- 

 haps a half a mile inland, and that the 

 rest of Labrador belongs to Canada. As 

 defined in the letters patent, constituting 

 the office of governor of Newfoundland, 

 the boundary was described as a line 

 drawn between Blanc Sablon and Cape 

 Chidley, wdiich would pass through the 



ocean in certain sections and leave large 

 areas of the coast to the westward of 

 the line and therefore not under Xew- 

 I'ouudland jurisdiction. 



Many Xewfoundland officials hold to 

 llie view that the correct delimitation was 

 made in a sessional paper issued in this 

 coloin- in 1864. I'nder the ])hraseology 

 of this document Xewfounclland would 

 be entitled to thousands of scfuare miles 

 of the interior of the Labrador peninsula 

 in addition to the coast. 



A plantation of Scotcti Pine in Windsor Forest, Eng- 

 land, at tVie age of 20 years. 



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