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imitate them at home. Theu tlie jiareuts 

 were impressetl. Before long the whole 

 school section was domiuated by a love for 

 the beautiful and people drove miles to 

 visit the school yard. 



When Mr. Dunlop entered the C. P. R. he 

 began on his own responsibility to interest 

 station agents in llowers and bulbs. With 

 four kinds of seeds from his garden he soon 

 infused some of his fondness for floral dis- 

 play into the men scattered along the line. 

 It was not long till the rjulway employees 

 began to like the new feature of their 

 work and demands poured in for seeds. 

 The company found that the influence of 

 the flowers had a favorable effect on the 

 lives and habits of employees and that the 

 public appreciated the lovely sights that 

 greeted them at every station. 



Out of this grew the C. P. R. Floral De- 

 partment. It distributes each year 150,000 

 packages of seeds and 1,000,000 bulbs to 

 employees, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

 Mr. Dunlop has seen his welfare work, 

 which had such a modest beginning, reach 

 magnificent proportions. 



Before the C. P. R. Forestry Department 

 wa.s organized Mr. Dunlop frequently 

 represented the railway at forestry con- 

 ventions and he still maintains a very 

 lively interest in the subject. The above 

 article illustrates the keen interest which 

 the railways are taking in the welfare of 

 the community and this interest Jias been 

 extended to take in the great resources 

 represented by our forests. This new at- 

 titude is a most striking and helpful sign 

 of the times. 



OBITUARY. 



MAPLE PRODUCTS ADVANCING. 



The following item, which appeared in 

 Canadian papers on Feb. 22 speaJcs for it- 

 self: 



"That the gift of Her Royal Highness 

 the Durhcss of (,'onnaught of a box of maple 

 sugar to every member of the first Canadian 

 contingent has resulted in quite an unex- 

 I»ected boom to the industry throughout the 

 Dominion is shown in a cable received from 

 Lord Stamfordham, Secretary to His Majes- 

 ty the King, notifying Her Royal Highness 

 that the Canadian product is to be found 

 not only on the Royal table but also in every 

 hotel and large store in London. 



"The Maple Sugar Association, through 

 Hon. Joseph E. Caron, Minister of Agricul- 

 ture in Quebec, and G. Boyer, M.P., Rigaud, 

 and other manufacturers, has also sent an 

 official communication to the Duchess thank- 

 ing her for having fostered in this manner 

 the industry and opened up such a valuable 

 channel of trade. An engrosse<l address was 

 to-ciay presenteil to Her Royal Highness on 

 behalf of the association." 



Mr. W. H. Rowley. 



Mr. W. H. Rowley, president of the E. B. 

 Eildy Co., Hull, Que., and an ex-president of 

 the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, 

 died suddenly in Toronto, on January 12th, 

 from rupture of an aneurism. The deceased 

 was born in Yarmouth, X.S., in 1851. Dur- 

 ing the first twenty years of his active busi- 

 ness life, he passed through a very success- 

 ful banking career. Then, in ISSG, he re- 

 organize.! the E. B. Eddy Co. and from 190«J 

 till his death was its president and treasurer. 

 He possessed great executive ability and was 

 recognized throughout Canada as an indus- 

 trial leader. His acti\ities extended into 

 several branches of philanthrojiic and church 

 work. As head of the E. B. Eddy Company, 

 few men were more vitally affected by for- 

 estry proV)iems. Mr. Rowley did not always 

 agree with others who jjresscd forward the 

 work of forest conservation but his views 

 were always his own and always vigorously 

 and fearlessly expressed. 



Mr. R. H. Alexander. 



One of the most prominent figures in the 

 forest products industry of the Pacific coast, 

 and one of the warmest advocates of forest 

 conservation in that section of Canada, 

 jiassed from the scene when Mr. R. H. Alex- 

 ander died sudilenly of cerebral hemorrhage 

 at the residence of his son, Mr. F. W. Alex- 

 ander in Seattle on January 29 last. Mr. 

 Alexander was in his customary health and 

 had been in attendance at a gathering of 

 lumbermen in Seattle the day before he was 

 stricken with his fatal illness. Mr. Alex- 

 ander was so well-known and so much re- 

 spected that the facts of his life have doubt- 

 less l)een read by many of our members in 

 the daily papers ami trade journals. At the 

 same time it is impossible not to say a few 

 words about one whom the cause of forest 

 conservation can so ill afford to spare. Mr. 

 Alexander was born in Edinburgh, Scotland 

 in 1844, and, coming to Canada after he had 

 completed his education in his native city, 

 he, in 18G2, nearly a quarter of a century 

 before the first Canadian transcontinental 

 railway was built, made his way overlaml 

 to the Pacific coast by way of Tete .Jaune 

 Cache and the Eraser River. How Mr. Alex- 

 ander became one of the pioneers of the 

 lumber industry on the coast and how in con- 

 nection with Mr. John Hemlry, Mr. David 

 McXair and Mr. C. M. Beecher he a,ssisted 

 in the building up of the great company 

 with which he was connected at the time of 

 his death is all well-known, but, perhaps, it 

 is not so well-known that in the midst of an 

 exceedingly busy career he found time to 



