38 Forests and Trees 



The noteworthy feature of this report is that more fires 

 were caused by campers and travellers than by settlers. 

 An explanation of this is, no doubt, found in the fact that 

 in the area on which reports were received, regulations 

 covering the setting of fires are enforced, thus reducing 

 the number caused by settlers. It must also be remembered 

 that in this region the number of campers is very large. 



The following is a summary of the laws respecting fire 

 in the four western provinces. 



The Canadian Criminal Code provides that any person who 

 wilfully sets fire to timber or timberland is guilty of an indictable 

 offence and liable to fourteen years imprisonment; and any 

 person who wilfully attempts to set fire to timber or timberland 

 is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 



The Criminal Code also provides that any one who care- 

 lessly or in violation of a municipal or provincial law sets fire 

 to timber or timberland is guilty of an indictable offence and is 

 liable to two years imprisonment. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF MANITOBA 

 The Fires Prevention Act, Chapter 35, 1917 



2. (c) "Wooded District" in this Act means and includes the 

 following described territory, all lands lying east of the west boundary 

 of range 9, east of the principal meridian, lands lying east of Lake 

 Winnipeg, and north of the south boundary of township 16, lands 

 between Lake Winnipeg and Lakes Manitoba and Winnipegosis 

 and north of the south boundary of township 25, lands west of Lake 

 Winnipegosis and east of the Prince Albert line of the Canadian 

 Northern Railway and north of the south boundary of township 32, 

 and all lands to the north of the districts indicated, except the Rural 

 Municipalities of Swan River and Minitonas. 



