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effort. In 1905, a quarterly magazine, the Canadian 

 Forestry Journal was started by the Association, 

 making its work of instruction and propaganda more 

 effective. 



A most promising convention held in January 1906, ^ 

 with the Premier of the Dominion presiding, partici- 

 pated by prominent officials and business men, 

 seemed to foreshadow the time when a real rational 

 forest management, at least in some parts of the 

 Dominion would be inaugurated. 



But it can can hardly be said that the expectations 

 were realized. In 1909, following the precedent of 

 the United States, a Conservation Commission was 

 appointed, from whose activity perhaps better results /i 

 may be expected. 



While the Ontario government had directly dis- 

 credited the forestry movement by abolishing its bureau 

 of forestry, indirectly it laid the foundation for a sure 

 future, in 1907, by establishing in its provincial Uni- 

 versity at Toronto a Faculty of Forestry with full 

 equipment. A year later the Province of New Bruns- 

 wick also established a chair of forestry in its University, 

 while some time earlier the Guelph Agricultural College 

 had introduced the subject of farm forestry in its 

 curricula. 



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