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lished we hope to be able to extend our operations to a greater 

 degree so as to produce wider and quicker results. That is 

 the position in the West in regard to forestry. Here it is to 

 some extent — to some extent may I say? — a question of argu- 

 ment, an academic question; there it is a question of the high- 

 est, the greatest and the deepest importance and everybody 

 in the country understands it. Therefore, any result which may 

 come from the deliberations of this Convention which will lead 

 in any way towards increasing our knowledge of the means to 

 preserve existing forests or create new, especially means which 

 may be applied to the western country, will be more than wel- 

 comed by the Government, by the Department of the Interior, 

 and by the Forestry Branch of that Department. 



Mr. E. E. Joly de Lotbiniere, President of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association gave a sketch of the history of the Asso- 

 ciat'on and its objects. Starting in 1900 the Association has 

 now a membership of one thousand and has brought the forestry 

 question to a prominent place in the estimation of the public. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Forest Service of the 

 United States, was called upon and addressed the Convention 

 as follows: — Before saying a word about the forestry on both 

 sides of the line, I have the great honour and pleasure of bring- 

 ing to His Excellency the Governor General and to you, Mr. 

 Chairman, a personal message from the President of the United 

 States (loud applause). I am to express to His Excellency the 

 warmest personal regard of the President, and to you and to 

 the members of this Convention his heartiest good wishes and 

 good will and his confident and to me most welcome expectation 

 of good to result to Canada from the work of this Convention. 

 And I am to say to you that the President's own belief in the 

 fundamental, vital and immediate importance of forestry grows 

 stronger year by year (loud applause). For myself I may say 

 that, so far as I know there has never been, at any time, or in 

 any place, a warmer or more effective supporter of forestry than 

 the President (applause). It is a very great satisfaction to me 

 to know that he is threatened with a rival in Canada in your 

 own person. (Laughter and applause.) I am the bearer also 

 of a message from Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture 

 for the United States, and my honored chief, who has asked me 

 to express to you his appreciation of the wisdom which called 

 this Convention, and to express his good wishes for the per- 

 manent success of this work, and to tell you of the pleasure he 

 has had in sending a representative to be present at your de- 

 liberations. (Applause.) 



You have called this Convention in recognition of the vital 

 importance of forestry to Canada. Forestry is more closely, 

 and I think it fair to say, more tremendously involved in the 



