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acknowledged the assistance given to 

 the (Jovcrnnient by the lumbermen, 

 timber-owners and the general pub- 

 lic in enforcement of the laws ; on 

 every hand was evident a desire to 

 protect the forests and husband the 

 immense timber resources of the Pro- 

 vince. 



The citizens' welcome was conveyed 

 by Alderman Cuthbert, and that of 

 the Board of Trade by Mr. Shallcross. 

 The first called upon to reply was the 

 Hon. J. K. Flemming. Premier of New 

 Brunswick. He thanked the Pi-ovince 

 and City for their vrarm welcome and 

 complimented very highly British 

 Columbia in showing the way to solve 

 the larger problems of forest protec- 

 tion. 



The Hon. Jules Allard, while he 

 apologizetl with true French-Cana- 

 dian politeness for his English, proved 

 how little he needed to ask any indul- 

 gence. In eloquent terms he con- 

 gratulated the Government of British 

 Columbia on what it was doing for 

 forestry and for the protection of the 

 natural resources generally. He 

 showed the progressive step taken by 

 Quebec when it sent two young men 

 to Yale to be educated as foresters, 

 and that these men had been placed 

 in charge of the work on tlieir re- 

 turn, and he also spoke of the suc- 

 cess of the new forestry school estab- 

 lished in connection with Laval Uni- 

 versity, ten graduates of which were 

 in the employ of the Quebec Govern- 

 ment. 



Mr. Aubrey White, on behalf of 

 the province of Ontario, thanked the 

 people of British Columbia for the 

 welcome extended and spoke of the 

 efforts of Ontario to con(iuer the for- 

 est fire demon by constantly increas- 

 ing the organization since 1885. 



The Hon. Colin II. Campbell said 

 that this was the first forestry con- 

 vention to which his province had 

 been able to send a representative. 

 Formerly Manitoba had been engaged 

 iu producing No. 1 hard wheat, but 

 now, thanks to the extension of its 

 boundaries, it was interested with 



other provinces in forest problems. 



Dr. Fernow spoke on this occasion 

 as representing the Conuuision of 

 (■onservation. He congratulated the 

 province on its remarkable advance in 

 forest matters. He agreed with the 

 Premier that he was right in consid- 

 ering the British Columbia legisla- 

 tion the most advanced in America. 

 The thing that struck him most was 

 the rapidity ami eiTectiveness with 

 which British Columbia had complet- 

 ed its work. 



Mr. John Hendry brought the pro- 

 ceedings to a close by a speech in 

 which he conveyed the thanks of the 

 Association. 



Mr. R. H. Campbell, :\Ir. James 

 White, Secretary of the Commission 

 of Conservation, i\lr. A. F. Mantle 

 and ]\Ir. George Harcourt had promis- 

 ed to speak at the opening, but owing 

 to the lateness of the hour it was de- 

 cided to reserve these speeches for 

 another session. 



The Hon. W. R. Ross, ^Minister of 

 Lands for British Columbia, who had 

 made a race against time from New 

 York in order to be present at the 

 convention, arrived before the close 

 of this session and was greeted with 

 t heers. 



Thursday Morning', Sept. 5. 



The proceedings opened with Mr. 

 Hendry, the President, in tlie chair, and 

 he immediately proceeded to deliver his 

 presidential address. Tn this he pointed 

 out that the public was now coming to 

 realize that the old idea that forests and 

 lumbermen must disap])ear as time passed 

 was giving j'laee to the new conception 

 that jforests would continue forever on 

 the lands unsuited to agriculture, and 

 that the ideal was jiermanent saw-mills 

 and wood-working factories supplied with 

 timber from permanent forests on the 

 non-agricultural lands. Tie emphasized 

 the need of much greater exertions 

 against fire, and also better laws to keep 

 out 'fake' settlers from agricultural lands. 

 To this end surveys should be made as 

 rapidly as possible to ascertain what is 

 absolute forest land, and the forest ser- 

 vices all over Canada should be kept fear- 

 less and non-]iartizan by placing them un- 

 der civil service reaulations, where1)y ap- 

 pointments, jiromotions and dismissals 



