Canadian Forestry Journal, February, J 917 



973 



Annual Meeting of The Association 



President Miller's Report Takes Note of Conservation Progress 

 Throughout Dominion — Directors Tell of Successful Year. 



The Annual Meeting in Brief 



Hon. Sydney Fisher, chosen President for 1917; Mr. Gordon C. 

 Edwards, Vice-President. 



Directors' Report stated that 1007 new members had been added 

 in 1916. Sum of $1310 raised for Pubhcity Extension. Thirty-seven 

 public illustrated lectures given ; other lectures by the "forest travel- 

 ogue" outfit supplied to local speakers. Free cartoons appeared in 

 hundreds of newspapers. Large numbers of special articles supplied to 

 the press. School children and Boy Scouts brought into touch with 

 forest conservation movement. Successful campaign waged in Ontario 

 for reform of the forest protection system. 



Receipts for 1916 totalled $8,622.12 and expenditures $8,038.37, 

 leaving a balance of $583.75. 



— ,4. 



The Eighteenth annual Meeting of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association 

 was held at the Chateau Laurier, 

 Ottawa, on Monday, January 15th. 

 In accord with the policy of holding 

 no conventions until the close of the 

 war, the day was divided into two 

 sessions, with a business meeting in 

 the morning and addresses and dis- 

 cussion in the afternoon, the atten- 

 dance for the latter being particularly 

 good. In the evening a banquet was 

 held at the Laurentian Club. 



The report of the President, Lt. 

 Col. J. B. Miller (President of the 

 Poison Iron Works, Toronto) with the 



Directors' report, and other proceed- 

 ings of the morning meeting are given 

 in the following pages. Hon. Sydney 

 Fisher was elected President and 

 Gordon C. Edwards, vice-president 

 for the current year. Mr. J. T. Home 

 the nominee of the Fort William 

 Board of Trade, was elected a director 

 in succession to the late Mr. John 

 Hendry, of Vancouver. Two changes 

 were made in the list of Territorial 

 Vice-Presidents, Hon. T. D. Pattullo 

 replacing Hon. W. R. Ross for 

 British Columbia, and Hon. W. M. 

 Martin replacing Hon. Walter Scott 

 for Saskatchewan. 



The Presidents Report 



The Canadian Forestry Association 

 has passed through a year in which its 

 national usefulness has been put to 

 more than ordinary tests. While 

 public interest was directly focused 

 upon the prosecution of war, with all 

 other patriotic concerns in abeyance, 

 one might have anticipated a period 



in which the Association would be 

 obliged to mark time. The deepened 

 patriotism of the Canadian people, 

 however, has expressed itself not only 

 in military activities but in the de- 

 velopment of a more intelligent and 

 generous interest in great civil under- 

 takings such as the national move- 

 ment for forest conservation. 



