368 Canada. 



The most important result of this propaganda was 

 to commit the governments to see the propriety of 

 setting aside permanent forest reserves. 



The first movement in this direction was made in 

 1893, and in 1895 the first Dominion reservations were 

 made by the Minister of the Interior. These, to be 

 sure, were located in the thinly timbered parts of the 

 province of Manitoba, the Turtle Mountains and Riding 

 Mountain, mainly for the protection of water supply. 



Several other similar reserves were set aside by the 

 Minister, but to give more stability to these reserva- 

 tions an Act of Parliament was passed in 1906, declaring 

 their permanence and placing them under the ad- 

 ministration of the Superintendent of Forestry. There 

 are so far, some 26 Dominion Forest Reserves created, 

 comprising an area of over 16,000 square miles. The 

 Forestry Branch is making a brave beginning to sur- 

 vey and manage these reserves under forestry princi- 

 ples. 



Of the provinces, Ontario was the first to recognize 

 the principle of reservations in 1893, when a partially 

 cut over, partially licensed territory of over one million 

 acres was set aside as the Algonquin National Park in 

 the Nipissing District; but the first definite estab- 

 lishment of a forest reserve policy dates from the 

 Forest Reserve Act, passed in 1898, which authorizes 

 the Executive, as in the United States, to withdraw 

 lands for reserves. Some five reserves have so far 

 been established, and the reserved area amounts to 

 nearly 12 million acres. 



Of management on forestry lines there is so far little 

 to be heard. 



