1826 



Canadian Forestry Journal, Auyiisl, 1UJ8 



Tank Cars in Fighting Fires 



Mechanical equipment has demon- 

 strated its value in controlling forest 

 fires and its use is rapidly increasing, 

 now that labour is scarce and it is 

 often difficult to assemble men 

 promptly to prevent a fire spreading. 

 The upper illustration shows a fire- 

 fighting tank car, equipped with 4,000 

 ft. of 23/^-in. hose, hose rack and 

 pump, maintained by the Canadian 

 Pacific railway for the control of fires 

 along its lines in the Muskoka dis- 

 trict, Ontario. The lower illustration 

 shows the equipment in actual use at 

 a fire in cutover forest lands, where 

 the debris on the ground constitutes 

 a source of great fire danger. 



Tank cars and pumping outfits are 

 also in use, to a limited extent, on por- 

 tions of the Grand Trunk, Transcon- 

 tinental and Timiskaming and Nor- 

 thern Ontario railways, and have 

 thoroughly demonstrated their effect- 

 iveness. Portable pumping outfits 

 for forest protection purposes, are 

 used by the Dominion Parks Branch, 

 Dominion Forestry Branch, British 

 Columbia Forestry Branch Ontario 

 Forestry Branch, Canadian Pacific 

 Railway Forestry Branch, and by 

 the St. Maurice, Ottawa River, 

 Laurentide and Southern St. Law- 

 rence Forest Protective Associations. 



The Last "White Man's Country" 



British East Africa and German 

 East Africa are probably the last 

 examples of white colonization, in 

 the strict sense of the word, that will 

 take place on this globe, for no more 

 "White man's country" remains. In 

 both these countries there has been 

 a new departure in the settlement of 

 the land. In place of the waste and 



forest destruction which occurred 

 when the Spaniards colonized Mexico 

 and South America, the Anglo- 

 Saxon, North America, and more re- 

 cently, the British, Australia, forest 

 demarcatiom both in German East 

 Africa and British East Africa was 

 the first step taken in the settlement 

 of the countrv. 



