Canadian Forcslri/ Journal, Janiiaru, 1917 



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FUR TRADING CAMP ON THE NELSON RIVER. NORTHERN MANITOBA. 



I Canada 's Fur Crop Nearlp $2, 000, 000 



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Recent reports of severe forest 

 fires in the neighborhood of Hudson 

 Bay and James Bay mention the 

 serious effects upon the trapping and 

 fur trading activities of the Indian 

 population. 



The last Dominion census gives the 

 total value of Canada s fur crop in 

 1910 as $1,927,550. The item of 

 greatest value in the table is that for 

 "assorted furs", $445,320; muskrats, 

 $256,213; martens, $221,583; and 

 minks, $221,500. Tne largest pro- 

 duction is naturally in the unorgani- 

 zed territories, the value being 

 $500,217. The figures do not apply 

 to production of fur farms or from 

 wild animals in captivity. 



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Gilmour is a 1908 graduate of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College and also 

 of the Department of Forestry in the 

 University of Toronto. He has had 

 experience in the employ of private 

 lumber companies and also in the 

 Forest Branch of the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railway and the Forest Branch 

 of the Department of the Interior at 

 Ottawa. Since 1912 he has been on 

 the staff of the Forest Branch of the 

 Department of Lands of British Col- 

 umbia, being district forester at Cran- 

 brook from 1912 to 1915 and on the 

 head office staff at Victoria during 

 the past year. 



J. D. Gilmour Promoted. 

 John D. Gilmour, formerly with the 

 Forest Branch of the Department of 

 Lands of British Columbia, has re- 

 signed in order to accept the position 

 of general logging superintendent of 

 the Anglo-Newfoundland Develop- 

 ment Company, Ltd., a branch of the 

 Harmsworth Company, owners and 

 operators of imrnense pulpwood hold- 

 ings in Newfoundland. Mr. Gilmour 

 will assume his new duties during 

 January, and will be stationed at 

 Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Mr. 



B. C.'s Growing Pulp Industry. 



The increasing production of pulp 

 and paper in British Columbia con- 

 tinues, and it is announced that 

 the plant of the Empire Pulp 

 and Paper Mills, at Swanson 

 Bay, 100 miles south of Prince Rup- 

 ert, will be turning out chemical 

 pulp in commercial quantities, the 

 daily output when the plant is in full 

 running order being between thirty- 

 five and forty tons. 



Steady expansion in the lumber 

 industry along the line of the G.T.P. 

 in British Columbia is noticeable, 

 notably east of Fort George. 



