With the Forest Engineers* 



Dominion Forestry Branch. 

 Personnel. 



Forest Assistant W. J. Boyd, who re- 

 turned in November from his canoe trip 

 to Dawson, is at present busy assisting m 

 the organization of the fire ranging for the 

 coming season and in finishing a report 

 of his trip before leaving for Alberta, 

 where he will be attached to the office of 

 the District Inspector of Forest Reserves 

 at Calgarv to assist in the administration 

 of the fire-ranging of that province. 



Forest Assistant J. A. Doucet will again 

 conduct a reconnaissance survey to be 

 operated in the Peace River District this 

 season and is at present occupying his 

 time organizing this survey. 



Mr. James Lawler resigned his position 

 as secretary of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation and has been attached to the 

 head office staff of the Forestry Branch as 

 Editor of Publications. 



Several additions have been made to the 

 staff of the Forest Products Laboratories 

 of Canada. Mr. J. L. McNicol has been ap- 

 pointed to the position of paper maker m 

 the pulp and paper division, and Mr. J. G. 

 McNicol has been appointed as helper. In 

 connection with the investigation work to be 

 carried on this summer by co-operation with 

 Queen's University, Mr. J. A. McEae, at 

 present lecturer there, has been appointed 

 as investigator of waste sulphite liquors. 



Forest Assistant L. C. Tilt is finishing 

 his work in connection with a report of 

 the timber berth surveys which were con- 

 ducted last summer, in order to assume his 

 new duties in connection with the Mani- 

 toba Inspection office at Winnipeg. 



Mr. C. F. McFayden, who resigned his 

 position in connection with the Forestry 

 Branch at Victoria, B.C., has been appoint- 

 ed forest assistant in connection with the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch and will likely 

 be placed on the Athabaska Division of 

 the Eockv Mountains Forest Reserve. 



Forest Assistant A. B. Connell has been 

 assigned to the Porcupine and Pasqma 

 Forest Reserves, with headquarters at 

 Hudson Bay Junction, Sask. 



Enlisted for the War. 



Nineteen employees in all of the Do- 

 minion Forestry Branch have already en- 

 listed for active service abroad: 



Forest Assistant G. E. Bothwell (present 

 address, "B" Company, 51st Battalion, 

 C.E.F., Edmonton, Alta.) 



Forest Ranger E. AV. Conant, of the 

 Nicola Forest Reserve, British Columbia, 

 at present with the first contingent. 



Student Assistant W. A. Delahey, at- 

 tached to Regiment No. 971, Platoon No. 1, 

 "A" Company, 49th Battalion, C.E.F., 

 Edmonton. 



Mr. F. W. Eraser, of the Forest Pro- 

 ducts Laboratories, at present with the 

 first contingent. 



Ranger G. G. Fuller, of the Bow River 

 Forest Reserve, with the third contingent, 

 Edmonton. 



Fire Ranger J. S. Leitch, of the Pas Fire 



Ranging District, with the first contingent. 



Forest Ranger P. G. Leman, of the Bow 



River Forest Reserve, "B" Squadron, 12th 



C.M.R., Calgary. 



Forest Ranger W. Lyndon, of the Crows- 

 nest Forest Reserve, 13th Squadron, 

 C.M.R., Pincher Creek, Alberta. 



Chief Fire Ranger W. J. Maclaren, of 

 the Manitoba South Fire Ranging Dis- 

 trict, at present with the first contingent. 

 Chief Fire Ranger Captain R. H. Palmer, 

 with the 49th Battalion, C.E.F., Edmonton. 

 Forest Assistant A. E. Parlow, of the 

 British Columbia Reserves, with the first 

 contingent. 



Mr. H. C. B. Smith, clerk in the British 

 Columbia Inspection office, with the first 

 contingent. 



Forest Supervisor H. I. Stevenson, of the 

 Riding Mountain Forest Reserve, at pres- 

 ent in command of the cavalry regiment 

 now in training at Brandon, Manitoba. 



Mr. H. Wev, clerk in connection with 

 the British Columbia Inspection office 

 (present address, No. 4 Company, 30th Bat- 

 talion, C.E.F., Willows Camp, A^ictoria, 



B.C.) 



Mr. A. E. Wvatt, clerk in connection 

 with the Indian "^Head Nursery Station of- 

 fice (present address, "C" Company, 28th 

 Battalion, Amphitheatre, Winnipeg.) 



Fire Ranger D. Smith, of the Manitoba 

 North Fire Ranging District, with the first 

 <'ontingent. 



Fire Ranger J. A. Ringer, of the Revel- 

 stoke Fire Ranging District, with the first 

 contingent. 



Mr. D. N. Trapnell, of the Forest Pro- 

 ducts Laboratories of Canada, with the 

 first contingent. 



Mr. L. N. Seaman, of the Forest Pro- 

 ducts Laboratories of Canada, with the 

 second contingent. 



Talks on Forestry Subjects. 



Mr. J. R. Dickson and Mr. C. J. Tulley 

 of the Forestry Branch head office con- 



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