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main has passed by grant and sale into private hands, 

 some 6 million acres, one-half in small holdings. Of 

 the lands remaining in the crown at least two-thirds 

 is on barrens. Similarly, in Prince Edward Island, 

 the 800 square miles of woodland remaining are almost 

 wholly owned privately, the 14,000 acres of state land 

 being, like most of the private property, stripped of 

 its value. 



In New Brunswick over 1.6 million acres, mostly 

 woodland (containing over 10 billion feet) was granted 

 to the railway company and another million acres or 

 so is in other private possession; a liberal disposal of 

 lands having been continued until 1883, when about 

 1%. million acres of timber and waste land remained 

 to the crown. 



In Quebec some 6 million acres are estimated as 

 privately owned, mostly in woodlots on farms. In 

 Ontario the private woodland area of commercial 

 character may be over 5 million acres. 



Besides the large grants which were and still are 

 probably to the greatest extent in timberlands, the 

 farms in the various provinces, according to the Census 

 of 1901, have from 22 to 57 per cent, in woodlots, or 

 altogether probably in the neighborhood of 30 million 

 acres. 



The total area privately owned may then be placed 

 at not to exceed, say 40 million acres, and the largest 

 part of the forest area, is still crown lands, the govern- 

 ment of the different provinces and the Dominion 

 government in the territories and in the middle 

 provinces administering them and deriving the 

 revenue therefrom. This condition has prevailed 



