348 Canada. 



and of the home country has been considerable, and is 

 growing, Indian forest officers being detailed to assist 

 in developing forest policies in these other parts of the 

 British empire. 



CANADA. 



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The largest single colony of Great Britain and the 

 most important as regards forest supplies, both as to 

 quantity and character, Canada has been for a long 

 time supplying the mother country with a large pro- 

 portion of her imports. Newfoundland is politically 

 outside of the Dominion of Canada, but geographically 

 the name Canada is used to designate the whole of the 

 Northern portion of the continent. 



Although in size larger than the United States, its 

 land area being estimated at over 3,600,000 square 

 miles, Canada has so far attained only one-fifteenth of 

 the population of her neighbor, namely less than 6 

 million. Much of her territory is still unknown, and 

 will remain for a long time unavailable for civilization, 

 owing to its inhospitable climate. Indeed, as yet not 

 one-third of its territory may be considered opened up 

 to civilization, and hardly more than 100,000 square 

 miles can be said to be occupied, one-half improved in 

 farms, and two-thirds of this in crops. 



Report on the Forest Wealth of Canada, by the Statistician of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, 1895. 



Reports of Crown Lands Departments, of Bureau of Forestry of Ontario, and 

 of Forestry Branch of the Dominion. 



Dkfebaugh's History of the Lumber Industry o/ America, Vol. I, 1906, 

 brings together much information on this phase of the subject. 



Hough's Report on Forestry, Vol. II, 1880, has a compilation of earlier 

 statistics. 



