CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



MEETING 



""Till-'. Canadian F( >re-t ry Association 

 * met in its ninth annual session in 

 the Board of Trade rooms. Montreal, 

 rrovince of Quebec, mi Thursday and 

 Friday, March uth and i^th. Mi- 

 honor Sir I,. J. Jette, Lieut.-Governor 

 of the Province of (Juebec. opened the 

 meeting, which was presided over bv 

 the As-ociation's president. H. M . 

 I 'rice, of the city of Quebec. The 

 meeting was a large and enthusiastic 

 one, and was a .success in every way. 



An announcement that brought 

 great gratification to the members of 

 the association and evoked heart}' ap- 

 plause was made by lion. Sidney Fish- 

 er. Dominion Minister of Agriculture, 

 who declared the intention of the no- 

 minion Government to set aside, in a 

 short time, the whole of the eastern 

 slope of the Rocky Mountains, from 

 the international boundary as far 

 north as the timber goes, as a forest 

 reserve. The new reserve will em- 

 brace the entire belt of the foothills, 

 so that a vast area running iv>rth and 

 south over 1.500 miles will l:e lire- 

 served as a national asset of incalcul- 

 able value. In extent and magnitude 

 of virgin woodland, this will be no 

 doubt the greatest government forest 

 reserve <>n earth. 



An important feature' of the meel 

 ing was tlie use of both the French and 

 Fnglish language s; papers were read 

 and discussions earned on in both 

 tongues, and two editi 11- ,.f the re- 

 port of the meeting will be published, 

 one in F'nglish and the other in 

 French. 



Much importance was also attached 

 to the active and enthusiastic interest 

 taken in the meeting bv a numhe-r of 

 the higher Roman Catholic cle-rgv of 

 the province-. \mong the^c we-iv 

 Aivlihi-hop I'-ruche'si and Hi-hop Ra- 

 cicot. of the Archdiocese of Montreal. 

 UK! Canon Dauth. of I .aval I'nive-: 

 ty, who gave- addr< md Moiisjg- 



nor Latlamme. dean of the facnltv of 



arts in Laval I nivcr-ity. who gave an 

 admirable paper on "I.e maniere dont 

 (|uel(|iies ctiltivate-urs iisent le boj- 

 leurs terres" i The way in which some 

 farmers n-c the 1 wood on their land-i. 



Mr. (',. C. Piche, forester to the De- 

 partment of Crown Lands of the pro- 

 vince of (Juebec. also gave- a paper in 

 French, while papers in Fnglish \\e-re 

 contributed by Messrs. II. G. Joly de 

 LI tbiniere, A. II. I). Ross. F. Stew- 

 art. R. R. Bradley, and L. ( ). Arm- 

 -tmiig and Dr. Robert Bell. 



The idea that the forests () f the far 

 Xorth were practically illimitable v. 

 combated by several speakers wh had 

 traversed these districts. Mr. F. 

 Stewart and Mr. Macoiin both stated 

 that very little was known of the real 

 timber resources of the Xorth coun- 

 try, since explorers necessarily trav- 

 eled by the rivet's, canoeing up in 

 summer, or taking the fmxen -urf. 

 of the stream- in winter. In tin's \\-;i\- 

 they traveled thr. .ugh the rive-r bol 

 toins. which were- heavily wooded, ai 

 thus were apt to get <|tu!e mi-take-n 

 ideas of the country, since 1 the di-tricl- 

 back of the rive-r valle-y- might be 1 

 <|uite u-ele's- from a timbe-r jioint oi 

 view. 



\merican ])ublishers \vi!l be n I 

 ested to know that an export dut\ 

 both pulpwood and pulp was -troin 

 favored. 



( in Tlmr-day e ve'iiin^ I'rof. I ; . 

 Roth gave a levtuiv. illu-ti-.'-.ted by 

 eopticon vie-ws. on "Forest Lands and 

 \griculture." and at the 1 noon hour. 



Friday. I 'r. l ; erno\v addre'--e'd i 

 Canadian Club of Montreal on Canad- 

 ian fore'-t ])olicy and problems. 



The 1 necessity of proudm- the 1 for- 

 ests from tire 1 -. iallv along the 1 



line 1 of the 1 ne'w transcontinental rail- 

 way, and the 1 (|ue-ti' m of restricting the- 



pulpw 'd. a! 

 ly in the di ms. 



Mr. < >\ i i ton \\". Pric 

 tlie \ ' . S. F' M r. F'.. \. 



