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Convention of 1906, where he issued a note of warning, and pointed out that electric 

 roads run by water power can supplant steam and thus prevent fires. 



Water storage means much to forest, fish and game life, and it is coming be- 

 cause it will pay. 



This Association is now eight years old and our membership stands at about 

 1,200, but I trust that before this meeting terminates many new names will be added. 

 I would ask every member to aid the work of the Association by handing in the 

 name of a new member within a short time of this appeal reaching him and request 

 all to aid the work' of the Canadian Forestry Journal by contributions of interest on 

 forestry and kindred subjects, for our object is to make this journal one of general 

 interest and not purely academical. 



This Association is greatly indebted to the Dominion Government as well as 

 the Provincial Governments of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Colum- 

 bia for the grants made by them towards aiding the work of the Association. 



I have no doubt that Mr. Campbell will give us useful information on the great 

 work being done in the Prairie Provinces by the Federal Government in the way 

 of tree planting. 



The Federal and Provincial Governments and all the Legislative bodies of the 

 Dominion are united on the preservation of the forests and the necessity for pre- 

 serving the sources of our water powers, and the ground is, therefore, ready for the 

 seed that this Association is endeavouring to sow. 



As regards some definite nationa-1 policy to-be advocated by this Association, 

 I think that outlined by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in his address at the Ottawa Convention 

 of January, 1906, is the most definite and practical. It was that all the hills, moun- 

 tains and plateaus which are the sources of flowing streams and rivers should never 

 be allowed for any consideration whatever, to remain anything else than in forest; 

 that these portions of the earth's surface should form part of the national domain 

 and belong to the Crown and that where portions of these water sheds have been 

 alienated and transferred to private ownership the policy should be to repurchase 

 them for the national domain. 



The PRESIDENT. I am about to call upon one whose name will be greeted 

 most cordially. I will call upon Monseigneur Bruchesi, Archbishop of Montreal, 

 to say a few words on behalf of the principles advocated by this Association. 



It is with very great pleasure that we all see Monseigneur Bruchesi and Mon- 

 seigneur Laflamme evincing their interest in forestry by coming here, and I now 

 call upon Monsignor Bruchesi to address you upon a subject which, I know, he has 

 very much at heart. 



