OASADUX l'>l,-i:.<TBY ASSOCIATION 



orono; Profe~r Odhrth. Toronto; W. Ryan, Toronto; E. W. 



.: T. W. OiUon, Director of the Bureau of Mines, Toronto; A. Mahafly MTP, 

 Bridge; Valentine Stock, M.P-P, Tavis.ock, Ont; W. Anderson, M.P.P., Peter- 

 borough?^. 1M. Macph,,- ,,. l.-ngford Mills; E. H. Campbell, Ottawa. 



ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS. 



The President, Mr. Hiram Robinson, took the chain at 10.30 on Thursday morn- 

 ing and said: Gentlemen, I have now to state that the general meeting of the 

 association is open for business. The secretary will read the several communications 

 which we have in our possession. 



Mr. STEWART. We have here a number of letters from persons whom we would 

 like to have seen present. We will not read all of them, but there are a few who have 

 taken a great interest in our association, and have been with us before, from the 

 United States, and from different parts of Canada. 



Letters of regret were read from Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester of the United 

 States; Col. W. F. Fox, Chairman of the New York Forest Commission; J. T. Roth- 

 rock, Superintendent of Forestry for Pennsylvania; Dr. B. E. Fernow; Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck, and others. 



The minutes 'of the previous annual meeting were read and adopted. 



Mr. E. Stewart then read the report of the Board of Directors, which was as 

 follows : 



REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



The Board of Directors of the Canadian Forestry Association beg to submit their 

 report for the past year. Subsequent to the last annual meeting the following were 

 appointed as vice-presidents for the provinces and districts, viz: Ontario, J. B. 

 McWilliams, Peterborough; Quebec, Hon. S. N. Parent, Quebec; New Brunswick, 

 lunour J. B. Snowball, Lieutenant-Governor, Chatham; Nova Scotia, A. H. 

 AlacKay, LL.D., Superintendent of Education, Halifax; Prince Edward Island, Rev. 

 A. E. Burke, Alberton; Manitoba, Major Stewart Mulvey, Winnipeg; Assiniboia, 

 J. 8. Dennis, Calgary; Saskatchewan, P. G. Laurie, Battleford; Alberta, William 

 Pearce, Calgary; Athabaska, F. D. Wilson, Fort Vermilion; British Columbia, H. 

 Boctock, Monte Creek ; Yukon, the Commissioner, Dawson ; Keewatin, the Lieutenant- 

 Qovernor of Manitoba. 



We regret to say, however, that during the year the death occurred of the vice- 

 president for the district of Saskatchewan. He was one of the pioneers of Battleford, 

 and as proprietor of the Battleford Herald was in an advantageous position 16 advance 

 the interests of the forestry movement to which he gave great assistance. The re- 

 cent death of the late Mr. E. W. Rathbun, of Deseronto, should also be mentioned, as 

 he was for a time a director of this Association,- and in this capacity, as well as a 

 member of the Ontario Forestry Commission, did much to bring the investigation 

 of improved methods of forest management to the prominent position which it holds 

 in public estimation at the present time. 



