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Canada's Foresters Overseas 



A Splendid Record of National Service 

 By the Youngest of Our Professions. 



Forestry, the youngest of all the 

 engineering professions in Canada, 

 has given liberally of its manhood to 

 the overseas forces of the Dominion. 

 Numerically, the ranks of Foresters 

 or Foresters-in-training have not yet 

 reached beyond a very few hundred. 



According to lists compiled for the 

 Canadian Forestry Journal, and which 

 at best cannot be free from some 

 omissions and inaccuracies, there are 

 122 foresters or forestry students at- 

 tached to Canadian forest services or 

 colleges who have donned the uni- 

 form and gone overseas. Of this 

 number at least 17 already have been 

 killed, while many others have been 

 wounded in action, some repeatedly. 

 Most of these men enlisted before 

 Forestry Battalions were organized. 

 A few have been transferred so as to 

 utilize their technical abilities, but it 

 is a striking fact that the greater 

 number of Foresters and students 

 were at the front early in the cam- 

 paign and chose to take their place as 

 iighti-ng men. Some have fought in 

 Mesopotamia, others across the sands 

 of Egypt, and most of them in France 

 and Belgium. 



Toronto's Record 



Of the relatively small group of 

 graduates and students of Toronto 

 University Forest School, under Dean 

 Fernow, twelve men have made the 

 supreme sacrifice, while twelve others 

 have been either wounded, gassed or 

 victims of shell shock. From the 

 Toronto school alone, there went 

 forth 4 Captains, 29 Lieutenants, 8 

 N.C.O's, and 24 privates. Indeed, 

 the only men who did not go were 

 those debarred by physical defects. 

 The profession of Forestry in the de- 

 gree to which the graduates and 

 students promptly placed themselves 

 at the service of their country and 

 cheerfully accepted a tragic record of 

 casualties surely stands in the fore- 



front of all callings. Many have 

 given their lives whose services were 

 sadly needed by Canada. Letters 

 from the wounded and from men in 

 desolate corners of the field of war, 

 thoroughly homesick and tired of the 

 business of fighting, nevertheless re- 

 fuse to complain against conditions 

 or express regret that they were called 

 to a perilous and exhausting task. 

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ONTARIO'S RESOURCES OF 

 TIMBER 



The present area of forest reserves 

 and parks in Ontario is 22,574 square 

 miles, or 14,447,360 acres. This area 

 while large in itself, is not great in 

 comparison with reserves and parks 

 in Quebec ; nor is it large in proportion 

 to the total area of non-agricultural 

 lands in Ontario which must always 

 be chiefly valuable for the production 

 of timber. There are many millions 

 of acres of cut-over or burned-over 

 forest lands in the province, belonging 

 to the Crown which are now practic- 

 ally without fire protection, but 

 which contain a great deal of young 

 growth and much timber at present 

 below merchantable size, but which, 

 if protected from fire, would ultimate- 

 Iv become merchantable. 



Paper pulp in the Scandinavian 

 countries costs seven times more than 

 in 1914; it costs twenty times as much 

 to bring it to France by sea, the in- 

 surance being from 8 to 10 per cent, 

 of the value of the cargo; the port 

 dues are from 1 to 6 per cent.; labor 

 costs 60 per cent more; and coal is 

 seven times as dear as before the war. 



It now recjuires $30.00 worth of coal 

 to make a ton of paper in France, as 

 compared with $5.00 worth four 

 years ago." 



