The Regina Meeting. 



Ill 



G. B. Spring-Rice, of Pense, Sask., who 

 took issue with Mr. Mitchell's theory 

 regarding the chinooks and defended the 

 older theory. Others who took part in 

 the discussion were Messrs. A. Knechtel, 

 A. P. Stevenson, H. L. Patmore 

 (Brandon), A. Mackay, N. M. Ross 

 and G. A. Rimington, of Penrith, 

 Cumberland Co., England. 



Mr. N. M. Ross gave some account 

 of the experiments with different species 

 of conifers at the Forest Nursery; They 

 had found that Scotch pine were hardier 

 than jack pine, the seed was cheaper and 

 the tree stood transplanting well. The 

 Norway pine had not been very success- 

 ful. The Eastern jack jiine was more 

 easily handled than the Western. The 

 main conifer for them was the white 

 spruce. Asked to give his experience 

 with regard to tamarack, Mr. Ross spoke 

 of having transplanted some of these 

 trees from Sewell, Man., and having, 

 after they had had one year in the 

 nursery, planted them out on the bare 

 prairie^ without any protection. In 

 1904 they had been eight inches high; 

 in 1909 they were twelve feet in height. 

 Twenty per cent, were lost in trans- 

 planting from the swamp to the nursery, 

 but the subsequent loss was slight 



During the morning a Resolution 

 Committee was appointed, consisting of 

 the following: R. H. Campbell, A. H. D. 

 Ross, R. D. Prettie, J. P. Turner and 

 T. N. Willing. 



On the conclusion of the morning 

 session the delegates adjourned to the 

 auditorium of the City Hall and shared 

 with the visiting British Association 

 delegates the hospitality of the city at 

 the luncheon. 



Friday Afternoon. 

 On the convention resviming in the 

 afternoon the Secretary read telegrams 

 expressing regi"et at inability to be pre- 

 sent from His Excellency the Governor- 

 General, Patron of the Association; 

 Lord Strathcona; Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid 

 Laurier, Hon. President of the Associa- 

 tion; Hon. Frank Oliver, Minister of the 

 Interior, and Hon. Cliflford Sifton, chair- 

 man of the Conservation Commission. 

 Letters of similar import were also re- 

 ceived from ^Ir.Thos.Southworth, Toron- 

 to, President; Senator Edwards, Ottawa, 

 Vice-President; Senator T. O. Davis, 

 Prince Albert, Sask.; Hon. Jules Allard, 

 Minister of Crown Lands, Quebec; Hon. 



Frank Cochrane, Minister of Crown 

 Lands for Ontario, Vice-President for 

 Ontario; Hon. Sydney Fisher, Ottawa; 

 His Grace Archbishop Bruchesi, Mont- 

 real, Vice-President for Ungava; Hon. R. 

 P. Roblin, Winnipeg, Vice-President for 

 Manitoba; Hon. W. C. H. Grimmer, 

 Vice-President for New Brunswick; 

 Mr. H. M. Price, Quebec, Past President; 

 Mr. E. Stewart, Montreal, Past Presi- 

 dent; Mr. E. G. Joly de Lotbiniere, 

 Quebec, Past President; Mr. W. B. 

 Snowball, Chatham, N.B., Past Presi- 

 dent; Hon. W. A. Charlton, Toronto; 

 Dr. B. E. Femow, Dean of the Faculty 

 of Forestry, University of Toronto; Mr. 

 Gordon C. Edwards, Ottawa; Mr. Ell- 

 wood Wilson, Grand Mere, Quebec. 



The first item on the programme was 

 Mr. A. H. D. Ross's paper on "The 

 Dominion Forest Reserves." He first 

 noted the setting apart by the Forest 

 Reserves Act in 1906 of the twenty-one 

 reserves, of which six were in Manitoba, 

 three in Saskatchewan, three in Alberta 

 and nine in the strip fort}' miles wide in 

 British Columbia, known as the Railway 

 Belt. These areas were set aside (1) To 

 provide lumber, fuel, ties, poles and 

 other forest products required for the 

 settlement of the country and the de- 

 velopment of its resources; (2) To pro- 

 tect the headwaters of streams and 

 regulate the flow of water in them for 

 irrigation, transportation and industrial 

 purposes; (3) To aft'ord a natural shelter 

 for the various kinds of birds, fish and 

 game. 



These reserves embraced areas as 

 follows: Manitoba, 3,575 square miles; 

 Saskatchewan, 740; Alberta, 185; British 

 Columbia, 890; total, 5,391 square miles. 

 It would require a special act of Parlia- 

 ment to withdraw any of the land from 

 these reserves for settlement or other 

 purposes, so that a great opportunity 

 was afforded for the Government to 

 protect and improve this property. 



In the three prairie provinces the 

 reserves were intended to supply home- 

 steaders with building material, fencing 

 and fuel, rather than to furnish wood 

 for the lumber trade. In these three 

 provinces there was a population of 

 almost a million, and it would not be 

 many years before it reached ten million. 

 In the meantime the consumption of 

 wood for building and industrial pur- 

 poses would be enormous, and would 

 require all the lumber at present grow- 



