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Quebec, Hon. S. N. Parent ; Keewatin, His Honour the Lieutenant 

 Governor of Manitoba; Assiniboia, His Honour A. E. Forget; 

 Alberta, Wm. Pearce; Athabasca, F. D.Wilson; British Columbia, 

 Hon. h'. Bostock; Manitoba, Hon. J. H. Agnew; Ontario, Hon. 

 Nelson Monteith. 



The Resolutions passed at the last Annual Meeting were 

 transmitted to the Minister of Railways, to the Local govern- 

 ments and to others interested and were acknowledged with 

 promises of consideration. 



It may be noted that the Transcontinental Railway Com- 

 mission, in calling for tenders for the construction of the Trans- 

 continental Railway have included special requirements in 

 regard to the protection of the forests along the route from fire, 

 this being a question dealt with by one of the resolutions. 



Forest Fires. 



Forest fires caused considerable loss in different localities 

 during the past year. In Nova Scotia one village was destroyed. 

 In New Brunswick, Moncton was threatened and for a time the 

 situation in several places was serious. In Quebec the smoke 

 from fires interfered seriously at times with navigation on the 

 St. Lawrence River. Ontario did not suffer heavily nor did the 

 western provinces, except British Columbia. The weather 

 conditions east of the Rocky Mountains during the early part 

 of the season were such as not to require very close patrol 

 service, but later it was found necessary to have the rangers 

 continuously on duty. In British Columbia we seem to be 

 passing through a cycle of dry seasons and that of 1905 was one 

 that threatened the greatest destruction of timber. At one 

 time it was feared that the whole of the valuable timber in the 

 Shuswap country would be swept away, and for weeks a large 

 body of men under the Dominion Fire Rangers were kept 

 constantly fighting the fire with the result that only a small 

 quantity of merchantable timber was destroyed. The Kootenay 

 district seems to have suffered most heavily. 



An important work to be done by the Dominion Govern- 

 ment is the protection from fire of the large extent of northern 

 forests, as settlement and railway construction extends into them. 



Tree Planting. 



The Dominion Government is continuing and extending 

 the system of co-operation with the settlers in tree planting 

 which was started in the year 1901. During the past season 

 nearly two million trees were distributed to settlers on the 

 bare prairie, and this spring (1906) a little over that number 

 will be sent out, making a total distribution of about seven 

 million trees, besides a considerable quantity of tree seeds. 



