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his own experience in installing telephones 

 on his limits and the benefit they had 

 been. He thought it would be worth while 

 for the government to bonus lumbermen 

 for building such lines. The fraudulent 

 taking up of lots by so-called settlers must 

 be put a stop to. 



On motion of Dr. Fernow, seconded by 

 Mr. Little, it was resolved to accept the 

 committee 's report and continue the com- 

 mittee for the purpose of reporting on or- 

 ganization. 



The Banquet. 



On Wednesday evening a banquet was 

 held in the Parliamentary Restaurant, at 

 which about two hundred guests were pres- 

 ent. The chair was occupied by the presi- 

 dent of the Association, Mr. Chown, at 

 whose right were seated Rt. Hon. R. L. 

 Borden and Mr. Alex. MacLaurin, presi- 

 dent of the Canadian Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation, and on his left Rt. Hon. Sir Wil- 

 frid Laurier and Dr. Gifford Pinehot. 

 Others seated at the head table were Hon. 

 G. E. Foster, Mr. Wm. McNeil, Director 

 of the Canadian Lumbermen 's Association, 

 Hon. G. H. Perley, Hon. T. W. Crothers, 

 Hon. Sydney Fisher, Sir Frederick Borden, 

 Hon. F. Oliver, Dr. B. E. Fernow, Hon. J. 

 G. Foster, U. S. Consul, Major R. W. Leon- 

 ard, Chairman N. T. R. Commission; Dr. 

 Rothrock, of Pennsylvania, Dr. E. H. Hall, 

 of New York, Mr. W. R. Brown, of New 

 Hampshire, Hon. Speaker Sproule, Mr. 

 Haughton Lennox, M.P., Hon. J. A. Mathe- 

 son, Premier of Prince Edward Island. 

 The vice-chair was occupied (in the un- 

 avoidable absence of Senator Edwards) by 

 Mr. H. M. Price, and at his table were 

 seated Messrs. N. Curry, President of the 

 Canadian Manufacturers Association, Geo. 

 Burn, General Manager Bank of Ottawa, 

 Dr. F. C. Harrison, President of Macdon- 

 ald College, Prof. W. J. Black, president 

 Manitoba Agricultural College, Aubrey 

 White, Deputy Minister of Lands and For- 

 ests for Ontario, Jas. White, Secretary Com- 

 mission of Consei-vation, Dr. J. W. Robert- 

 son, Chairman Commission on Technical 

 Education, Rev. Dr. Geo. Bryce, Member 

 of the Commission on Technical Education, 

 Wm. Little, Wm. Power, M.P., Lt.-Col. Har- 

 kom, E. Stewart, R. H. Campbell, Senator 

 Bostock, Wm. Pearce, S. Kydd, of the Mont- 

 real Gazette, H. A. Reynolds, Secretary of 

 the Massachusetts Forestry Association, 

 and N. S. Dunlop, of the C." P. R. 



The toast to 'The King' was proposed 

 by the chairman, and honored in the us- 

 ual manner. 



The toast to 'The Parliament of Canada' 

 was proposed by Hon. Sydney Fisher, who, 

 in opening, congratulated the present par- 

 liament on having brought down a larger 

 appropriation for forestry than had ever 

 been provided before. He enlarged upon 



the importance of the reserve made of the 

 eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, and 

 commended to the parliament of Canada 

 the figures given that morning by Mr. 

 Campbell, Director of Forestry. 



Rt. Hon. R. L. Borden was the first to 

 reply. In opening he made appreciative 

 reference to Hon. Mr. Fisher's faithful 

 work as Minister of Agriculture. Mr. 

 Borden referred again to his expression of 

 the morning, that conservation consisted 

 in the wise and prudent utilization of the 

 country's natural resources, having regard 

 to the fact that they were the property, 

 not alone of those living to-day, but also 

 of both those who had passed away and 

 those who were to come. 



After a brief complimentary reference 

 to Dr. Pinehot, Mr. Borden expressed his 

 gratification in realizing that Canada had 

 started the work of conservation earlier in 

 her national history than had the United 

 States. The work was only beginning, as 

 was shown by the difficulty experienced in 

 obtaining reliable information in regard to 

 the natural resources both of Canada and 

 the United States. He suggested that Can- 

 ada should immediately begin a stock- 

 taking of her great natural resources. 



Sir Wilfrid Laurier, after some humor- 

 ous references to the changed positions in 

 Parliament of himself and Mr. Borden, re- 

 ferred to the unanimity shown by both 

 parties in putting through the bill creat- 

 ing the Commission of Conservation. The 

 idea of the commission had come to them 

 from their neighbors of the United States, 

 and, among them, Dr. Pinehot had been 

 foremost in pressing the idea. He was 

 welcome with them on that occasion, and 

 would be welcome if he decided to live 

 permanently in Canada. Sir Wilfrid paid 

 a high tribute to the chairman of Canada's 

 Commission, Hon. Clifford Sifton. He (Sir 

 Wilfrid) hoped the Forestry Association 

 would become a permanent institution. No 

 life was more pleasant, he thought, than 

 that of the lumberman. 



Mr. H. M. Price proposed the toast of 

 ' Our Guests '. He referred especially to 

 Dr. Pinehot, and alluded to a passage from 

 Mr. O. W. Price's book, 'The Land We 

 Live In', to the effect that the natural re- 

 sources of the country were resources in 

 which a man's children were even more 

 interested than he himself. He advocat- 

 ed the prosecution of forestry instruction 

 among the boys and girls of Canada. 



Dr. Pinehot, in reply to the toast, after 

 thanking the convention for their compli- 

 ment, gave an inspiring speech, clearly 

 showing how forestry had branched out 

 into the conservation movement, and that 

 again into an alliance with the forces 

 fighting against child labor, unfair condi- 

 tions of work in factories, poisonous foods 

 and many other abuses. Forestry began 



