CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



PRESIDENT, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



Y) URING the month of December 

 Messrs. Clyde Leavitt, Robson Black 

 and Ellwood Wilson, went to Halifax, 

 Nva Scotia, to attend a conference of 

 prominent lumberman and the Hon. O. T. 

 Daniels, Attorney-General and Minister 

 of Lands, to try and get a forest service 

 established in that Province. Nova Scotia 

 is now the only Province without such a 

 service, forest lands in the prairie provin- 

 ces being administered by the Dominion 

 Forest Service. While Nova Scotia has 

 very little left of her Crown Lands, the 

 lumber industry is a very important one 

 and it was felt that the time had arrived 

 to give more intelligent care to- her tim- 

 berlands. The conference lasted nearly 

 all day and the Premier took part for a 

 few minutes. The Minister listened to all 

 that the advocates of a forest service had 

 to say, but decided that the time was not 

 yet ripe for such a step in view of the fact 

 that the Province has practically no reve- 

 nue from its Crown Lands and the Minis- 

 ter feared that if such a step were taken 

 the expense might increase from year to 

 year. He was willing to take the step 

 if some means of financing it could be found 

 and an effort will be made to get the 

 timBerland owners of the Province to 

 subscribe sufficient money to engage a 

 Provincial Forester. Nova Scotia has had 

 a pretty good forest fire record until the 

 past season when the fires -were bad and 

 a good deal of timber and some property 

 was destroyed. 



Mr. Leon A. Nix, a graduate of Syra- 

 cuse Forestry School, and recently with 

 the Chemical Division of the United Statei 

 Army, at Baltimore, has been made as- 

 sistant to Mr. Galarneau, Forester for the 

 St. Maurice Paper Company, with head- 

 quarters at Three Rivers, Quebec. Mr. 

 Galarneau will begin his work with a map 

 and estimate of the timber lands of the 

 company. 



The annual Forestry Conference under 

 the joint auspices of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, Co-operative Forest Protec- 

 tive Association of Quebec and the Wood- 

 lands Section of the Canadian Pulp and 

 Paper Association, was held in the 

 Windsor Hotel, Montreal, on the 29th and 

 30th of January. This is the blue ribbon 

 forestry event of the year in Canada and 

 was attended by practically all of the 

 pulp and paper and lumbermen of Eastern 

 Canada. The subjects discussed were all 

 thoroughly practical. Colonel Graves of the 

 United States Forest Service, Brigadier- 

 General J. B. White, D. S. O., commanding 



the Canadian Forestry Corps, and Mr. E. C. 

 Hirst who did such good work with the 

 New England Lumbermen's, Unit in Scot- 

 land told how lumbermen helped to win 

 the war. There was a very interesting 

 discussion on the necessity for slash burn- 

 ing to reduce the number of forest fires 

 and to help prevent insect ravages. A full 

 discussion by experts of the use of flying 

 boats or aeroplanes in forest fire patrol 

 and forest mapping and reconnaissance 

 illustrated by moving pictures and lantern 

 slides. The use of light tractors in logging 

 operations was considered and an actual 

 demonstration was given. The com- 

 mittee of the Woodlands Section on possi- 

 ble improvements in logging operations 

 brought out much discussion of interest, 

 and the meeting was a very live one. 



The staff of the Duck Mountain Forest 

 Reserve, of the Dominion Forest Service, 

 have sent out a very attractive calender 

 showing, by photographs of trail cutting, 

 brush disposal and railroad logging, the 

 activities of the District. 



The Minister of Lands and Forests of 

 Quebec will introduce at the next session 

 of the Legislature a bill which it is hoped 

 will help to put the present excellent forest 

 fire protection system on an even better 

 basis. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of Que- 

 bec, has gone to France on personal busi- 

 ness. It is rumored that he will try and 

 bring back some large contracts for timber. 



Mr. R. H. Campbell, Director, Dominion 

 Forest Service, has now quite recovered 

 from his serious accident of last summer 

 and is back at work again, much to the 

 satisfaction of his numerous friends. 



The "Alberta Inspection News Letter 

 No. 7," for 31st December is out and 

 is of much interest and full of news of the 

 men of the District and those of the force 

 who went overseas. This letter is gotten 

 out by Mr. E. H. Finlayson, in the inter- 

 ests of his District and is very creditable 

 indeed. We hope it will be continued for 

 the future. Most of the staff have been 

 suffering from influenza and he says "The 

 past few weeks have just "Flu" by. "One 

 of the rangers has been having a good 

 deal of trouble with the Indians writing all 

 over his fire signs, so recently he sent one 

 of these to the Indian Department at 

 Ottawa for translation and found that 



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