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some places very rapid. I think that perhaps this northern 

 portion of the Ottawa region, and the portion from the Gatineau 

 westward, is the most rapid growing pine district we have in this 

 portion of Canada. In that region, it is my behef , that if the pine 

 is carefully cut it will never be exhausted. I think that to deal 

 intelligently with this subject and to be able to make the very 

 best suggestions as to how the forest may be perpetuated one 

 would need to know what is being done in other countries. I am 

 well acquainted wath some Norwegian lumbermen who tell me 

 that their forests will never be exhausted. There they never 

 replant; they just depend on natural reforestation, which, I 

 think, is all that is necessary here. I do not think that replanting 

 is necessary, although I think that in many instances, and in 

 many localities, it might be desirable. 



If I might be permitted to offer a suggestion in that re grd 

 this would be my plan for a forestry school. I would set aside, 

 say a thousand square miles, or 500 square miles, and on that 

 I would establish a school of forestry. I would invite young men 

 to come to that school to learn both theoretical and practical 

 forestry right on the limits. I would then have an estimate made 

 to ascertain as nearly as possible what, in a few years, has been 

 the growth of timber on these limits. I would have these young 

 men go round each year and mark the trees that can be cut. I 

 would make them cut the timber, haul it and saw it. I would 

 make every one of these young men into a first class forester and a 

 first class lumberman, and these young men in time would be- 

 come the lumbermen of Canada. That, in my opinion, would be 

 the greatest step in advance in so far as the cutting of the forest 

 in an intelligent way is concerned that could be desired. 



I believe the day will come when the Province of Quebec, 

 portions of Ontario and other portions of the country that I am 

 not so familiar with, will be the manufacturing centres of the 

 North American continent. How are we going to preserve these 

 conditions? Denude the forests and you will not have these 

 conditions; maintain the forests and you will have them. If a 

 premium is ofTered to the people of the Province of Quebec to 

 maintain their forests, unbroken, and to maintain the water 

 supply which they have— the greatest inheritance that any 

 people could have, in so far as power and manufacturing is 

 concerned — that province, although its finances may perhaps be a 

 little at fault to-day, will some day be the manufacturing centre 

 of the continent. 



Mr. J. B. Miller, President of the Ontario Lumbermen's 

 Association, presented a paper on "Forestry from the Lumber- 

 man's Standpoint." He spoke of the difficulties in the way of the 

 lumbermen, owing to the withdrawal of lands for settlement 

 that was not permanent, and also to the work of the operators 



