CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



Canadian Department 



Ellwood Wilson 



Mr. Robson Black, the new secretary of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association, has 

 started out to put a lot of life into that 

 organization and we wish to compliment 

 him on the work already done and to wish 

 him good luck with his endeavors. The 

 first number of the Canadian Forestry 

 Journal is a great improvement and should 

 be a great help in increasing the member- 

 ship. It is newsy and interesting and the 

 articles are timely and readable. In the 

 matter of publicity in the press. Mr. Black 

 has also done good work and his idea of 

 sending copies of the papers in which 

 articles about the work of the Association 

 appear to the directors is a most excel- 

 lent one. A very good article from his 

 own pen in the issue of the Monetary 

 Times, of Toronto on "Ontario's Forests 

 and Water Powers" is very interesting 

 and should do a good deal to awaken pub- 

 lic interest in this most important sub- 

 ject. The interest taken by the govern- 

 tnen of Ontario in hydro-electric devel- 

 opment has been great and has shown 

 courage and foresight on the part of the 

 officials responsible for it and they will 

 no doubt soon realize that without for- 

 ests their water powers will be deteriorated 

 and will do something to wake up and 

 put life into the moribund forest policy 

 of Ontario. When the importance of the 

 subject is considered, the present system 

 is little short of criminal 



The Dominion Forests Products Labora- 

 tory of McGill University is about to 

 undertake a study of the mechanical prop- 

 erties of Jack Pine. This tree is very 

 abundant throughout Ontario and Que- 

 bec and as it is the most rapid in grow'.h 

 of any of the trees native to these 

 provinces, we need all possible information 

 about it. It would seem that it would be 

 a most profitable tree to grow for rail- 

 way ties, mine props, and fence posts, 

 especially if it could be satisfactorily 

 treated with some preserv-ative. Trees ten 

 years old show a growth of 9 to 11 feet in 

 height with a diameter of 2'/s inches on 

 the stump. 



The Minister of Land and Forests, the 

 Hon. Jules Allard, has taken up the ques- 

 tion of taxation of lands used for refor- 

 estation and will probably bring forward a 

 bill at the next session of the Legislature 

 to regulate this matter, which naturally 

 is of great importance. 



The Laurentide Co., Ltd., of Grand 

 Mere, Que., has entered into an agreement 

 with the Parish of St. Jacques de Piles, 

 which provides that the parish will not 

 raise the taxes on lands used on which 

 trees are planted for a period of twenty- 

 five years at the end of which time the 



agreement can be renewed. This shows 

 a most progressive spirit on the part of the 

 parish and the company will continue its 

 plantations in this district until all avail- 

 able land is planted. This spring about 

 one and one-half miles of road were built 

 in this parish by the company which it 

 is hoped will serve as models to the farm- 

 ers and encourage them to improve their 

 roads. Fire lines have also been cut 

 around the plantations and along the 

 roads. 



The fire situation in the Province of 

 Quebec has been much improved this 

 year and the number of fires this season 

 will probably be the lowest ever recorded. 

 So far there have been practically no 

 fires set by railroads, and the settlers 

 fires have also been below the average. 

 The greatest improvement has been in 

 the reduction of fires set by river drivers, 

 a special ranger having been placed with 

 each drive crew. In the territory patrolled 

 by the St. Maurice Forest Protective As- 

 sociation only one fire set by drivers has 

 been reported. It is a curious commen- 

 tary on the state of mind of employees 

 of companies that they should not be 

 willing to do all in their power to safe- 

 guard the property of their employers, 

 but such is the case. In this Association 

 it has been extremely difficult to get the 

 full cooperation of the Woods Depart- 

 ments of the various companies who are 

 members of the Association. They think 

 the forests should be protected, but when 

 it comes to taking a drive crew to fight a 

 fire, or to forbidding the drivers to smoke 

 in a dry time, or to discharging a man who 

 h careless about setting a fire, it is ex- 

 tremely difficult to get them to do any- 

 thing. However, this state of affairs is 

 passing and it is to be hoped that a spirit 

 of full cooperation will soon take the place 

 of such a petty state of mind. Two very 

 important things still block the wheels of 

 progress. The more important of the 

 two is the interference of politics which 

 is shown in two ways. First and least 

 important is the pressure occasionally 

 brought to bear by politicians to have 

 good men of an opposite party removed 

 from their positions as rangers and men 

 of the same party substituted. Fortunately 

 there has been very little of this. The 

 greatest difficulty is the way in which the 

 law is enforced by the judges before whom 

 offenders against the fire laws are tried. 

 The law provides a fine of fifty dollars 

 or three months' in prison for infractions 

 of these, but the judges either dismiss 

 the actions or give such light fines that 

 no good whatever is done. Often members 

 of Parliament interfere on behalf of their 

 constituents and by using their influence 

 obtain light fines. In either case the ef- 



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