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know that some attacks have been made against politicians on account of 

 their representations in the past. 



SENATOR EDWARDS : Your county was not included. 



MR. BERGEVIN : It is not that, but I want to draw attention to the good 

 work that has been done in the Province of Quebec towards the amelioration 

 of our timber limits and the protection of the big timber of our country. Two 

 highly educated young men, Mr. Piche and Mr. Bedard, who had been 

 employed for a time in saw mills, were sent for two years to Yale University 

 at the expense of the Provincial Government. There they secured technical 

 education which they brought back to the advantage of the Province of 

 Quebec. They are now the leading forest engineers of the Province of 

 Quebec, and they have prepared a programme for our Province which will 

 probably enlighten the whole of this Dominion regarding the solution 

 of Forestry problems. (Applause.) Not only have they been workers in the 

 forest, in the city and at the University, but Mr. Piche is now travelling 

 through the forests of Sweden and Norway, and will bring back valuable 

 experience after his long trip through those countries that are examples to 

 us. The Senator said that we have practically no report, but I beg to draw 

 his attention to the fact that every year we have laid one on the table of the 

 Legislature 



SENATOR EDWARDS : I did not say that. 



MR. BERGEVIN : I understood you to say there were not many reports 

 made as far as areas were concerned. 



SENATOR EDWARDS: No; I made no reference to it at all. The very 

 reverse is the fact. 



MR. BERGEVIN : We have annual reports of 300 or 400 pages, and my 

 figures yesterday were drawn from the last report. There are in Quebec 

 107,000,000 acres of land under reserve. 



MR. WILSON : Since Mr. Bedard and Mr. Piche have come into the 

 Province of Quebec we are having made more examinations of the land there, 

 and better enforcement of the laws there than ever before. Mr. Bedard has 

 been up in the woods with me the last month, and has gone over lots on 

 which the settlers have not fulfilled their conditions, and has made the first 

 competent and honest report that has been made in a long time, and the 

 Province of Quebec is taking steps which no other Province has even attempt- 

 ed to take. It is putting the very best men it has through a course of train- 

 ing, and very shortly, I think, they will have the very best administration 

 possible there. Just in this connection I would like to say that last summer 

 we caught a man who was setting fire to the woods up there by the way, a 

 squatter without any rights who resisted the fire rangers with an axe when 

 they tried to make him put out the fires. Through the courtesy of the Fire 



