1646 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 



Educational "Drive" in Gaspe 



Splendid educational work is being 

 done this season ])y the Southern 

 St. Lawrence Forest Protective Asso- 

 ciation which patrols the territory 

 to the end of the Gaspe Peninsula. 

 Under the stimulating leadership of 

 Mr. W. Gerard Power, Mr. R. L. 

 Montgomery, Mr. Simmons Brown 

 and other directors and officers, the 

 educational part of fire protection 

 is being given its just due. Mr. 

 J. D. Brule, equipped with a modern 

 stereopticon and a set of lantern 

 slides, etc. furnished through the 

 Canadian Forestry Association has 

 combined his duties of manager of 

 the Eastern Division with propa- 

 gandist. 



In the latter part of March and 

 the first week of April he delivered 

 no fewer than twelve illustrated 

 lectures in the Metapedia Valley 

 and Gaspe District and plans to 

 hold six more meetings on the nor- 

 thern coast of the Peninsula. 



Mr. Brule has been dealing almost 

 wholly with settlers who in all parts 

 of Quebec are still a great fire menace. 

 This is a natural condition in the 



absence of educational work. Few 

 settlers are wanton timber de- 

 stroyers. The majority only need 

 to be informed of the relation of 

 the forests and forest industries to 

 their personal welfare, the impoverish- 

 ing local effects that follow wholesale 

 conflagrations, and other matters 

 in which the timber resources form 

 a partnership with the farmer. An 

 intelligent settler is usually careful 

 about timber burning. 



Following are some of the places 

 visited by Mr. Brule with the ex- 

 cellent record of attendance: 



Attendance 



St. Gabriel, Rimouski Co ^... 225 



St. Francois, " 175 



St. Marcelin " 125 



Ste. Angele " 650 



St. Leon Le Grand, Matane Co.,.. 175 



Ste. Florence Bonaventure 250 



Causapscall, " 125 



St. Luc, Matane 200 



St. Leandre " 250 



St. Majorique, Gaspe 200 



L'Anse au Griffon, " 150 



Total 2425 



The Future Belongs to the Engineer 



By Frazer S. Keith 

 General Secretary, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers 



"The lawyer and the politician 

 have admittedly failed to solve the 

 industrial relations of man to man 

 and the relations between capital 

 and labor. The very qualifications 

 of mind and training that have 

 enabled the engineer so successfully 

 to grasp and solve any problem 

 set before him will be called upon 

 and required to solve and to deal 

 with what will be, after the war, 

 the greatest problem which we have 

 to face. 



"We find already many of the 

 executives of large industrial con- 



cerns being chosen from our own 

 profession, and more and more will 

 the men who have received a thorough 

 training in technical matters be called 

 to the high positions in industrial 

 affairs. This will mean the opening 

 up of a scope for the profession, 

 giving rise to a future that will 

 place the technical man in control 

 of the industrial life of the nation. 

 Coincident with that is arriving 

 a condition whereby the engineer 

 must, besides drawing plans and 

 specifications, give his advice in 

 connection with financing of any 



