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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1917 



Ne\v Brunswick's Foundation 

 The Forest 



No Other Province Bases Existence 

 So Completely Upon Living Forests 



PROBABLY no province in Can- 

 ada is so thoroughly identified 

 with forest industries as New 

 Brunswick. Southern Ontario, for 

 example, is a land of farms and in- 

 dustrial towns, continuously tending 

 towards specialization and more and 

 more remote from lumbering. South- 

 ern Saskatchewan has to do with 

 wheat and stock raising, usually car- 

 ried on as exclusive undertakings. 

 But New Brunswick, with its rela- 

 tively sparse population of 351,000 

 (1910 census) presents the interesting 

 characteristic of multiple employ- 

 ment, where most male residents out- 

 side of the larger towns draw part 

 of their income more or less directly 

 from woods operations. The winter 

 wages in the lumber camps for men 

 and teams, the millions of dollars dis- 

 bursed by the mills, account in no 

 small degree for the happy average 

 of prosperity which has characterized 



the province for a great many years. 

 Arousing Public Interest 



The Secretary of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association recently held 

 nine public meetings in New Bruns- 

 wick, at Moncton (auspices of the 

 Canadian Club); Chatham; Miller- 

 ton, Boisetown, Doaktown, Black- 

 ville, Renous, Tabusintac, and Bay 

 du Vin. Through the kind assist- 

 ance of Mr. W. B. Snowball, a director 

 of the Association, the meetings se- 

 cured clue publicity, and the attend- 

 ance, even on uncomfortably warm 

 evenings, was splendid. The audi- 

 ences in most places were composed 

 of lumbermen, timber scalers, farm- 

 ers, fishermen local teachers, clergy, 

 etc. so that over two thousand men 

 and women were encountered in this 

 brief series of illustrated lectures. 

 The addresses told of the contribu- 

 tion of the forest endowment to prac- 



THE FINAL RESULT OF OPENING POOR STONEY LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. 

 View taken at Hazleton Settlement, South West Miramichi, New Brunswick. 



