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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1914 



The Convention City — View in Public Gardens, Halifax. 



CO-OPERATION EXTENDING 



When last month we stated that we should 

 return to certain features of the work of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Association, 

 we did not think events would occur so rap- 

 idly. As a result of the successful two 

 years' work of that association, another has 

 been organized to protect the forests in the 

 valleys of the Nation, Lievre, Eouge and 

 Gatineau rivers. 



Upon invitation from some leading lum- 

 bermen, representatives of the St. Maurice 

 Valley Association came to Ottawa on 

 March 11, and explained the work of the 

 former association to a number of gentle- 

 men owning timber on lands to the west of 

 the St. Maurice. The chair on this occasion 

 was occupied by Senator Edwards, and the 

 workings of the association were explained 

 by Mr. S. L. de Carteret, President; Mr. 

 Ellwood Wilson, Vice-President; and Mr. 

 Henry Sorgius, Manager and Secretary. 



Their reports so favourably impressed 

 those present that on March 20 a second 

 meeting was held at the Chateau Laurier, 

 Ottawa, when Senator Edwards again occu- 

 pied the chair. A committee was formed to 

 organize an association to be called the Can- 

 adian Forest Protective Association to take 

 steps for its incorporation, and to appoint 

 a manager. 



It is expected that the organization will 

 be so far complete that the work of pro- 

 tection on a co-operative basis may be begun 

 this year. Lookout stations will be erected, 



trails opened, and telephone connections 

 made as far as possible. The work will be 

 on the lines of the older association. Among 

 those who explained the work of the St. 

 Maurice Association on this latter occasion 

 were Messrs. de Carteret, Wilson, and Mr. 

 J. B. White of Montreal. Mr. Overton 

 Price of Washington, D.C, considtiufr for 

 ester of British Columbia, was present, and 

 from his experience strongly urged the for- 

 mation of such an association. Mr. W. C. 

 J. Hall, Chief of the Forest Protective 

 Branch of the Quebec Department of Lands 

 and Forests, represented the Department. 



The committee appointed to organize the 

 association consisted of the following gen- 

 tlemen: Senator Edwards, Mr. J. B. White, 

 Mr. E. M. Kenny, Mr. George H. Millen 

 and Mr. Ward C. Hughson. 



Among the firms and their representatives 

 present were: — Senator Edwards, Gordon C. 

 Edwards and J. A. Cameron, of the W. C. 

 Edwards Co.; George H. Millen and J. F. 

 Rochester, E. B. Eddy Co.; P. C. Walker, 

 Shepherd-Morse Lumber Co.; Sir Henry K. 

 Egan, Hawkesbury Lumber Co. ; J. C. 

 Browne, Eraser & Co., Ottawa; J. H. Black, 

 of J. E. Booth & Co.; Grant P. Davidson 

 and James Davey, Davidson Estate; W. C. 

 Hughson and A. E. Maxwell, Gilmour & 

 Hughson; E. M. Kenny, E. J. Graham and 

 J. E. Eothery, of James MacLaren & Co., 

 Buckingham ; J. B. White, Charles Eead, Jr., 

 and John Gwynne, Eiordon Pulp and Paper 

 Co. ; Clyde Leavitt, forester, Commission of 

 Conservation, and Arthur H. Graham, Gov- 

 ernment forest agent, Arundel, Que. 



