Directors' Report for 1913- 



To the il- 



As.- 



of the Canadian Forestry 



Your Directors beg to report a year of 

 steady effort anJ con^^iderable progress in 

 the work of the Association. 



The chief feature of the year's work is 

 always the Convention, and in 1913 this 

 part of our projiaganda was directed to- 

 wards the problems of central Canada, the 

 part lying between Lake Superior and the 

 Rocky Mountains. The Convention was 

 held in Winnipeg, and, in spite of many dis- 

 advantages as to season and lack of hotel 

 accommodation, was most successful. It 

 was opened by the Lieutenant Governor, 

 Sir Douglas Cameron, and it was attended 

 by leaders in commercial, banking and 

 farming circles in aildition to those whose 

 presence is naturally expected, — those direct- 

 ly connected with forest industries. The 

 large number of forest adnuni^trato^s and 

 forest engineers present showed how rapid- 

 ly this work is advancing in Canada. Be- 

 sides men from all parts of Canada there 

 was a good number from the United States, 

 namely from Oregon, Minnesota, Michigan, 

 Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. The 

 exhibit of native Manitoba timber collected 

 and arranged by the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch created great interest, and the size 

 of the logs was a source of amazement 

 to both visitors and Manitobans. The ex- 

 hibit of injurious insects by the Dominion 

 Division of Entomology was also very care- 

 fully studied. 



It is not putting it too strongly to say 

 that among the results of this Convention 

 are a realization on the part of many cen- 

 tral Canadians of the value of the forests 

 of the prairie provinces, and of the impor- 

 tance to the prairie dwellers as consumers, 

 of forest conservation in the forest pro- 

 vinces; a better ajjpreciation of the impor- 

 tance of maintaining and developing the 

 prairie forest reserves as sources of both 

 timber and water; and, lastly, a glimpse of 

 the value and possibilities of tree planting 

 on the prairies. Perhap)S the most signifi- 

 cant thing about this Convention was the 

 fact that it was impossible to conclude it 

 at the time set out in the program. An 

 extra evening session had to be arranged, 

 and in attenrlance an.l interest this almost 

 equalled the opening session. The Govern- 

 ment of the Province of Manitoba and the 

 City Council of Winnipeg took charge of the 

 entertainment of the Convention and the 

 Industrial Bureau provided the Convention 

 HaU. 



The puldii-ation work of the A>!-o<iation 

 has reieived more attention than in any 

 preceding year, and the correspondence re- 

 ceived indicates that the interest in this 

 has been more ^villt•^pread. The report of 

 the Victoria Convention (Septeml>er, 1912) 

 was issued early in the year. Then in pur- 

 suance of a new policy the report of the 

 Winnipeg Convention held in Jidy was is- 

 sued early in the Autumn. This plan of 

 issuing a report of a Convention while the 

 gathering is still fresh in the minds of 

 the people results in a more wide>pread 

 circulation of the report. For no previous 

 report has the deman«l been as great as 

 for this one. The policy has been so sat- 

 isfactory that it is proposed to continue 

 it as far as possible. The issue of two 

 reports, of five thousand copies each, ac- 

 counts for the amount of $696 expended for 

 this purpose. 



The preparation of a comprehensive r^ 

 port in French containing the most salient 

 points of the three latest Conventions was 

 begun in the Autumn, but owing to the 

 illness of the translator was not in the 

 printer's hands at the end of the year. 



The Canadian Forestry Journal is now 

 issued monthly instead of bi-monthly, but 

 owing to the reduction in size and the sav- 

 ing in postage it is costing practically the 

 same as last year. It has proved that a 

 monthly publication keeps interest alive bet- 

 ter than one issue<I at less frequent inter- 

 vals. The plan of pulilishing articles in 

 French in the Journal has been discon- 

 tinue<l, and, instead, by an arrangement 

 with the Minister of Lands and Forests 

 and the Minister of Agriculture of Que- 

 bec, suitable articles are published in the 

 Journal d 'Agriculture. 



Bulletins to newspapers have been issued 

 as in past years, but the service has not 

 been increased, owing on the one hand to 

 lack of time because of other work, and on 

 the other to the excellence of the bulletin 

 service of the Dominion Forestry Bramh, 

 which is now issuing an average of one 

 bulletin a week. These bulletins are very 

 widely used and cover the grouml which 

 the Association would naturally endeavor 

 to cover. 



During the Autumn the Secretary car- 

 ried on a correspondence campaign for the 

 extension of the membership, and the re- 

 sults were such as to warrant the increased 

 use of this method in the future. The total 

 amount received in memViers' fees in the 

 year was $2,466, the largest in the history 



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