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ent of Education, who is very much interested, or the Premier, or Dr. Longley with 

 us at this meeting, or Mr. Dickie and other practical lumbermen. As I have said, I 

 am not a lumberman and not a forester, but I hope some time to have a bigger repre- 

 sentation of Nova Scotia men at the meeting. 



Mr. Soi TII WORTH. I might say, Mr. President, that we had letters of regret from 

 both Dr. Mac-Kay and Dr. Longley, and Dr. Longley said he had thought of coming to 

 the Association meeting, but legislative matters made it impossible to attend. 



Mr. JOLY DE LOTBINIERE. I would like to suggest Quebec as the place where we 

 might have our next annual general meeting. Quebec and Ontario, as we know, are 

 two of the great timber-producing provinces in this part of the world, and I think 

 we could have a most interesting meeting in the city of Quebec, because it is a city 

 of lumbering interests, and most of our large lumbermen are resident there, and I am 

 positive that these gentlemen will all take a real active interest ia the matter and 

 help make it a great success. And further than that, I think it will have no difficulty 

 in enlisting the Government's sympathy in this meeting. I am sure the Government 

 will act in the same generous way that the Government of Ontario have acted this 

 time ; that they will put at our disposal whatever rooms and space we need in the 

 Government buildings, and, apart from these considerations, I think that if you will 

 agree to come to Quebec, you will find a very, very warm and enthusiastic welcome 

 there. 



Mr. SOUTHWORTH. I would just like the honour of moving that the invitation 

 extended on behalf of the Province of Quebec, by Mr. Joly, be accepted by the As- 

 sociation, and that the next annual meeting be held in the city of Quebec. 



Mr. MACOUN. I have the honour of seconding the motion. 



Motion agreed to. 



The CHAIRMAN. Then as to the dates. 



Mr. CAMPBELL. The date is fixed for the second Thursday in March. I might 

 say in connection with the resolution we have here in regard to railways we have 

 quite a general resolution that the Ontario Government have been building a railway 

 through forest land and are doing it without any danger to the forests. I was going 

 to ask if Mr. White would give us some information as to how they are proceeding. 



Mr. WHITE. I will not take two minutes to tell you. Of course when the Gov- 

 ernment undertook to construct the railway the first thing that occurred to us, it 

 being through a forest country, was that we should protect the forest wealth. When 

 the contract was Iri \ve called upon the Timiscamin^ and Northern Ontario Railway 

 Commission and we suggested to them that we should put a staff of fire-rangers upon 

 that road and that they should bear half the expense, and that it should be well under- 

 stood that if a fire broke out, or the forest seemed to be in danger, the whole staff of 

 the railway and all the employees and contractors, and everybody that had to do with 

 the railway should be at the disposal of the fire-rangers in charge, so that every effort 

 might be made to suppress a fire if it occurred. Then we placed two rangers six miles 



