THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



By Ellwood Wilson 



AMONG the New Year's honors this 

 / \ year are two of interest to 

 V Forestry. The head of the 

 Canadian Conservation Com- 

 mission has been made Sir Clifford 

 Sifton. Sir Clifford has done much to 

 make the Conservation Commission 

 efficient and its work is bound to have a 

 great influence in the development of 

 Canada. 



pletion and the experimental machinery 

 which has already been delivered will 

 soon be installed. Messrs. Bates and 

 Campbell, the Director and Assistant, 

 read papers before the last meeting 

 of the Montreal Section of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry. 



Mr. William Price, the head of 

 Price Bros. Ltd., Paper Manufacturers 

 and holders of one of the largest timber 

 limits in the Province of Quebec, has been 

 made Sir William Price. He was instru- 

 mental in organizing and laying out the 

 Camp at Valcartier near Quebec for the 

 First Canadian Contingent and it was 

 in large measure due to him that the 

 whole camp was so efficiently organized. 

 His firm is the only one in Canada to 

 have its limits insured against fire, this 

 insurance having been placed in Eng- 

 land. The limits are insured in separate 

 blocks, and there must be a loss of at 

 least $50,000 before the insurance com- 

 pany will settle for damage. This 

 insurance is probably the reason why 

 this large company has never joined 

 the local cooperative Fire Protective 

 Association. 



Capt. J. B. White, Manager of the 

 Woodlands Department of the Riordan 

 Pulp & Paper Co., and the Canadian 

 Member of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers Association, expects, if 

 his military duties will permit, to attend 

 the meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association in New York. Capt. White 

 has been in charge of guarding some 

 of the canals in the neighborhood of 

 Montreal. 



Mr. D. C. A. Galarneau, Forester 

 for the Algoma Central & Hudson 

 Bay Railway, has a little daughter. 



Mr. R. D. Prettie, Chief Forester for 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway, has just 

 returned from a trip to the Pacific 

 Coast where he attended the meeting 

 of the Northwestern Forestry and 

 Conservation meeting. 



The building for the Dominion Forests 

 Products Laboratory in connection with 

 McGill University is approaching com- 



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Mr. H. R. MacMillan, Chief Forester 

 of British Columbia, will read a paper 

 before the Conservation Commission 

 at its meeting in Ottawa on the Organ- 

 ization of a Fire Protective System, and 



