Olanahtatt J^or^Btrg JnurttaL 



Vol. V. March, 1909. No.l 



THE TORONTO 1909 CONVENTION. 



A special meeting of the Canadian Forestr}- Association 

 was held in Toronto on Thursday and Friday, February Uth 

 and 12th. The President of the Association, Mr. W. B. Snowball, 

 occupied the chair at all the meetings, which were held in the 

 Convocation Hall of the University of Toronto. 



The outstanding features of the meeting were the report of 

 progress made by the representatives of the Province of New 

 Brunswick, (Hon. W. C. H. Grimmer, Surveyor-General, and 

 Mr. R. B. Miller, Professor of Forestry in the Provincial Univer- 

 sity), and the speeches of Hon. Frank Cochrane, Minister of 

 Mines and Lands for the Province of Ontario, who invited 

 criticism of the forest administration such as would show points 

 where the administration might be improved, and, at the banquet 

 given by the Board of Trade on Friday evening, announced the 

 Government's plans for the regaining by the Crown of much of 

 the territory now under license. Mr. Aubrey White's paper on 

 the "Forest Resources of Ontario" was also a valuable feature 

 of the programme. 



The Opening Session. 



The first session opened at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, 

 February 11th. His Excellency Earl Grey, Governor-General of 

 Canada, occupied a seat on the stage to the right of the President, 

 and with him on the stage were His Honor J. M. Gibson. Lieut. - 

 Governor of Ontario, and Hon. Sidney Fisher, Dominion Minister 

 of Agriculture. 



His Excellency opened the meeting. In his address he refer- 

 red to the intimate bearing which the scientific management of 

 the forests had on the industrial and agricultural interests of 

 the nation, and generally on its health and happiness. The 

 President of the United States had called the attention of that 

 nation to the fact of a timber famine being imminent, owing to 

 their reckless exploitation of their forests, and had called together 

 a conference to consider the question of the conservation, not 

 only of their forests, but also of their other natural resources. 

 The published reports of this conference had done much to 

 convince the people of the republic that there was a direct 

 relation between the forests and the flow of the streams on which 



