Canadian Forestry Association 

 Directors' Report for 1914. 



While the war has been the domiuating 

 force in the year the work of the Canailiau 

 Forestry Association has proceeded as stead- 

 ily as possible under the conviction that : uch 

 neces.^-ary work as protecting our forests, 

 the basis of such a large proportion of the 

 Tvealth of the country, should not be allow- 

 ed to lag. When the war ceases the Asso- 

 ciation hopes to again turn the attention 

 of all citizens to this most important ques- 

 tion. To this end it is desired that the 

 activities of the different departments be 

 maintained. 



Convention Not Held. 



At the annual meeting of 1914 it was 

 decided to hold the convention in Halifax, 

 and the Secretary made preparations for 

 this, in which he was assisted by the Presi- 

 dent, Mr. Wm. Power, M.P.. and especially 

 by the Vice-President, Mr. F. C. Whitman. 

 The latter met the Secretary in Halifax in 

 February and arranged matters with the 

 Provincial Government and the local author- 

 ities, and in March visited Ottawa, where 

 at a meeting of Directors it was decided 

 to hold the convention Sept. 1 to 4. Later 

 the Vice-President mapped out a series of 

 meetings in fourteen different places in 

 Nova Scotia, where in the months of June 

 and July the Secretary delivered illustrated 

 lectures and explained to the leading citi- 

 zens thft objects and scope of the conven- 

 tion. 



At a majority of these meetings the Sec- 

 retary was assisted by Mr. B. R. Morton, 

 B.Sc.F., the officer in charge of Woodlots 

 of the Dominion Forestry Branch, who at 

 the same time was making an investiga- 

 tion of forest conilitions in the province. 

 At two of the meetings the Vice-President 

 was able to be present, and during the 

 whole trip he was constantly in touch with 

 the Secretary by telephone. It was ho]>ed 

 that Mr. J. B. Whitman, Deputy Minister 

 of Crown Lands for Nova Scotia, would 

 be able to accompany the Secretary through- 

 out the trip, but other unexpected duties 

 prevented him from attending all but three 

 of the meetings. 



These meetings, extending as they ilid 

 from Sydney on the east to Yarmouth and 

 Annapolis on the west, aroused consider- 

 able interest, and this was furthered by 



the excellent reports given by practically all 

 the newspapers. 



About ten thousand people in Nova Scotia, 

 timber lot owners and members of the agri- 

 cultural societies, wore gi\en information 

 by circular, and through the kindness of 

 the Director of Forestry with these circulars 

 were included Circular No. 10 of the Fores- 

 try Branch, being Mr. Morti n 's pamphlet 

 on the Care of the Woodlot. These pamp 

 lets are much appreciated by the farmen» 

 and the continued demand for them shows 

 that there is now a very general desire to 

 know how to handle the timber still stand- 

 ing on the farm. 



After returning to Ottawa the Secretary 

 continued the preparations for the conven- 

 tion until the outbreak of war, when the 

 opinions of all officers and directors were 

 taken and proved to be practically unani- 

 mous that the convention shoubl be indefi- 

 nitely postponed and all the existing ar- 

 rangements therefor cancelled. 



At a meeting of the Directors on Aug, 

 20 it was decided to postpone the conven- 

 tion indefinitely, to return the $400 contrib- 

 uted by the Province of Nova Scotia, and 

 not to draw on the Vice-President for the 

 $350 promised by the Lumbermen 's Asso- 

 ciation of Nova Scotia. The postponement 

 of the convention was the more regretted by 

 the Directors as up to the outbreak of 

 hostilities the meeting had promised to be 

 one of unusual interest. 



Dominion Forestry Congress. 



At the annual meeting a deputation of 

 members waited upon the Right Honorable 

 the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, 

 and lion. W. J. Roche, Minister of the 

 Interior, and pressed upon them a number 

 of resolutions dealing with the increase of 

 forest reserves in the west, the extension 

 of civil service regulations to the outside 

 service, the afforestation of sand lands, fires 

 from railways, tree planting, and commend- 

 ing the Government for establishing the 

 Forest Products Laboratory. In the course 

 of his reply Sir Robert Borden asked the 

 Canadian Forestry Association to consider 

 the question of the calling of a Forestry 

 Congress by the Government. *t the con- 

 cluding session of the annual meeting the 

 Association passed a resolution that it would 



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