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Canadian Forestry Journal, January^ 1915 



OBITUARY 



It has not beeu the custom of the Cana- 

 dian Forestry Journal to maintain an obit- 

 uary column, but during the past three 

 months so many men prominent in himber- 

 ing and forestry have passed away that 

 special mention has had to be made of the 

 fact. The hope is expressed that it will be 

 many months before a like necessity shall 

 arise again. 



SENATOR ROBERT JAFFRAY. 



Hon. Eobert Jaffray died at his home in 

 Toronto on Dec. Ki from the bursting of 

 a ])lood vessel. Mr. .Jaffray was born in 

 Scotland in 1832, liut had lived from his 

 twentieth year in Toronto, where he was 

 identified with many commercial and finan- 

 cial undertakings. Just a few weeks ago, 

 upon the sudden death of Mr. D. K. Wilkie, 

 on Nov. 16, he was elected President of the 

 Imperial Bank of C'anada, which institution 

 thus lost two Presidents in succession in one 

 month. Senator Jaffray, both in his per- 

 sonal and business capacity, as well as in 

 public life, was a supporter of forest con- 

 servation. The family residence, surround- 

 ed by fine old trees, is just across the street 

 from the residence and grounds of the late 

 Alexander Manning, which now forms the 

 home of the Faculty of Forestry of tne 

 University of Toronto. 



SENATOR J. N. KIRCHHOFFER 



Hon. J. N. Kirchhoffer died at his apart- 

 ments in Ottawa on Dec. 22 after a long 

 illness. He was born in Ireland in 1847, 

 but had spent all his working life in Canada. 

 In the west he was known as the founder 

 of Souris, Manitol)a, and later for a num- 

 ber of years practiced law in Brandon. He 

 was a great lover of outdoor life, a sports- 

 man and a friend of the forests. 



MR. V. R. MARSHALL. 



Mr. Y. R. Marshall, of Brockville, Ont, 

 died after a somewhat lengthened illness on 

 Oct. 2. He was born at Toledo, Ont., in 

 1849, and in 1874 started in the lumber 

 business in Brockville. This later developed 

 into the Brockville Lumber Company, of 

 which he was the President and Manager 

 until a year ago, when he sold out his in- 

 terests and retired. Mr. Marshall was a 

 man of very observing habits, and his in- 

 terest in forest conservation was quickened 

 by passing over an old farm at a lumber 

 depot which he remembered as a young man 

 being an oat field, and which, at the time 



of his visit, had a fine gro\Ath of pine which 

 he estimated would in twenty years be ready 

 for the axe. He argued that if Nature 

 could do this unassisted she could do much 

 more by the application of intelligent me- 

 thods. Perhaps the last time Mr. Marshall 

 came to Ottawa was on the occasion of the 

 Canadian Lumbermen 's Association meeting 

 and Canadian Forestry Association annual 

 meeting in 1914 when he spoke with very 

 warm interest of the work. 



MR. THOMAS CHARLTON. 



Mr. Thomas Charlton, a well known lum- 

 berman of North Tonawanda, N.Y., died at 

 his home after a long illness on Nov. 29, 

 at the age of 75. Mr. Charlton was a mem- 

 lier of the well known family which made 

 Lyudoch, Ont., their home and center of 

 operations for many years. With his bro- 

 ther, the late Hon. John Charlton, he began 

 ill the lumber business in 1869, purchasing 

 ;>()0,000 acres of timber land on Georgian 

 Bay, Ont. He continued in this business all 

 his life, and was one of the prominent citi- 

 zens of northern New York, and active in 

 the affairs of the Presbyterian Church, of 

 which he was an elder. He leaves a wife 

 and six children, and is also survived by two 

 brothers, Mr. George Charlton, of Los Ange- 

 les, California, and Hon. W. A. Charlton, of 

 Toronto, immediate Past President of the 

 ( 'anadian Forestry Association. 



MR. A H. HILYARD 



Mr. A. H. Hilyard, Manager of the Dal- 

 housie Lumber Company, Dalhousie, N.B., 

 died very suddenly of pneumonia on Dee. 3, 

 at the age of 57. Mr. Hilyard had been 

 lumbering all his life, and at the time of 

 his death in addition to being Manager 

 and Vice-President of the Dalhousie Lumber 

 ( 'onipany was a Director of the St. Maurice 

 Ijumber Company. Mr. Hilyard took a warm 

 interest in the forestry convention in Fred- 

 cricton. New Brunswick, in 1910, and since 

 that had been identified with the work. 



A petition signed by several thousand 

 tax])ayers in Calhoum County, ^Michigan, 

 was presented to the Board of Supervisors 

 at their October session, asking that $1,000 

 lie appropriated each year for the planting 

 and care of fruit trees along the highways 

 where State Reward Roads have been built. 

 This petition was endorsed by the Central 

 Fruit Growers' Association, the Horticul- 

 tural Society and the Battle Creek Chamber 

 of Commerce. The object is to beautify the 

 roadways and to produce a revenue from the 

 sale of fruit to go toward the upkeep of the 

 roads. 



