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miles clear of trees, crops, buildings, bridges and fences. 

 The property loss, not counting the timber and injury to 

 the soil, was more than $2,000,000. One hundred and 

 thirty-eight persons perished. 



The Porcupine fire in northern Ontario in 1911 cost 84 

 lives and property loss which has not been estimated, while 



Courtesy Forestry Branch, Interior Dept. 

 FIG. 5. Burned-over Tract in Mountainous Territory, British Columbia. 



the "clay belt" fire in 1916 caused the loss of probably not 

 less than 250 lives and the destruction of several million 

 dollars' worth of property, and the Minnesota fire of 1918 

 caused an immense destruction of property, while the loss 

 of life has been estimated at between five hundred and one 

 thousand. 



Great as these losses have been in both life and property, 

 nothing has ever happened in bush fires that is not capable 

 of being repeated in the spruce woods of northern Manitoba, 



