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1 have about covered the ground that I intended, but before I sit down I wish 

 1o say that while we are here as business men for the transaction of business we ought 

 not to forget the friendships we have formed, many of which will endure for our lives. 

 This being so, we cannot but regret when any of those with whom we have been asso- 

 ciated at meetings of this kind are called away. During the last year this association 

 has sustained a tremendous loss by the death of Mr. John Bertram. Mr. Bertram 

 did not need to concern himself with anything except the cutting of his timber and 

 the marketing of it. He had good limits, remote from settlement, and indeed every- 

 thing that went to make up a successful lumbering property. He was a practical 

 lumberman; he was indeed a strong man, well armed, but being a public spirited man 

 of immense intelligence he chose to interest himself in forestry. He was a regular 

 attendant at our meetings, and by his wise counsel assisted the work of this associa- 

 tion. There was no man in all our body who was better equipped as a member of such 

 nn association. Those of you who were present at the last meeting will remember a 

 litttle by-play that took place just at the close of the meeting between Mr. Bertram 

 and myself. He objected to re-electing meii who had already served as president, and 

 talked about us ' old fellows.' I said, ' Speak for yourself ; I do not admit that I ani 

 an old fellow.' He said, ' I feel as young as you do.' Since then, to our great sorrow, 

 he has been removed by death, and we shall see his face no more. He was, above all 

 things, a representative Canadian, a man who loved 'his country, and who was deter- 

 mined to assert his country's rights in every particular. It was perhaps more owing 

 to his exertions than to the exertions of any other half dozen men that the province 

 of Ontario determined that its sawlogs should not go out to feed mills in the United 

 States. If Mr. Bertram had never done anything but that, 'he would have left an en- 

 during mark upon the history of matters pertaining to the forests of this country. 



Then we have also lost Prof. Muldrew, who was a well-read man of unquestioned 

 ability on matters connected with forestry. He had gone to the Guelph school to take 

 up forestry matters there. He was cut down suddenly in the very prime of liie. 



CoL Higginson, I did not have the pleasure of knowing so well, but he was an 

 estimable gentleman, taking a great interest in forestry matters. There is just one 

 other man who has been called away whose death was a great loss to this association 

 end to myself personally, because he was one of the closest friends I had, and I think 

 one of the most upright, honest men that ever lived. I refer to the late W. C. Cald- 

 well, Who represented the county of Lanark for many years. Straight and upright in 

 every respect, one cannot think of him without believing that the country was the 

 better for his having Kved. 



Then we must all regret the affliction that has come to our honoured president, 

 fenri Joly de Lotbiniere and his family in the death of Lady Joly. We all love Sir 

 I we believe that his name will be remembered for the good work he has 

 J long as trees grow in this country. He has our sincere sympathy in the afflic- 

 tion that has befallen him. 



Gentlemen, my remarks have been somewhat disjointed. I have tried to speak to 

 the different interests of the association, and what we are hoping to do. Be- 

 onclude I wish to express the hope that the good work that we have brought to 



