With the Fared Engineers 



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• liK-tcil an evcniiifj on Forestry beforo the 

 Botanical Branch of the Ottawa Fioltl 

 Naturalist Club, at the home of Mr. R. B. 

 AVhyte. Mr. Dickson j>resente<l, by a very 

 carefully aii'l thoroughly j)rci)are<l paper, 

 nn interesting anil instructive discourse on 

 forest conditions. Mr. TuUey followed 

 with a discussion of the Dominion Forestry 

 administration, after which ho jtresented 

 an interesting set of lantern slides, illus- 

 tiating some of the main forest conditions 

 in Canada, forest protection, and some of 

 the practical operations of the Forestry 

 B.anch in connection therewith. 



Dr. J. S. Bates, Superintendent of the 

 Dominion Forest Products Laboratories at 

 Montreal, addressed the Botanical Branch 

 of the Field Naturalists Club of Ottawa on 

 the evening of March 13 on the subject of 

 "Wood Fibre and its Uses in I'ulp and 

 l*a[ier Making'". The meeting was held at 

 the residence of 'Sir. George H. Clark, 

 Dominion Seed Commissioner, and was at- 

 tended by a number of the members of 

 the Ottawa Foresters' Club. Mr. Bartram 

 of the E. B. Eddy Company and Mr. W. 

 Rice of the J. R. Booth paper mills also 

 attended the meeting. Dr. Bates discussed 

 thoroughly the different processes of pulp 

 and i>aper manufacture and illustrated his 

 lecture with lantern slides. 



In British Columbia. 



(Xotes supplied hy B. C. Forest Branch.) 



Mr. C. MacFayden, formerly District 

 Forester at Tete Jaune, is now heading a 

 private exploration party in the Peace 

 River country. He recently visited Vic- 

 ti ria and in talking about the country 

 said that the journey from Fort George 

 •over the Gisconibe Portage and down the 

 Crooked, Pack, Parsnip and Peace Rivers 

 is one of the finest canoe trips imaginable. 

 He and his partner used an IS ft. Chest- 

 nut canoe and were delighted with it. 



Mr. P. S. Bonney, formerly Forest As- 

 sistant at Fort George, is now Acting Dis- 

 trict Forester at Tete Jaune. 



Mr. H. B. Murray, formerly Forest As- 

 sistant at Cranbrook and Acting District 

 Forester at Tete Jaune, is now Acting Dis- 

 trict Forester at Kamloops. 



Mr. P. Z. Caverhill, recently District 

 Forester at Kamloops, is now Deputy Dis- 

 trict Forester at Vancouver. This change 

 is in the nature of a promotion for Mr. 

 Caverhill, the forest management work in 

 the Vancouver District amounting to about 

 two-thirds of that in the entire province. 



Mr. J. B. Mitchell, who was Deputy Dis- 

 trict Forester at Vancouver, has enlisted 

 for active service in the Army Service 

 Corps, Vancouver, which is expected to 

 leave for England in the near future. 



Mr. F. McVickar, Forest Assistant, went 

 with the first contingent, and is now prob- 



ably in France. His address is, "A" 

 Squadron, Royal Canadian Dragoons, care 

 War Office, London. 



Mr. A. K. Shivos, Forest Assistant, Fort 

 George, is now on a visit in the East. Con- 

 gratulations are being extended to him 

 by liis friends because of the rumour that 

 ho is buying two tickets for the return 

 journey. 



ilr. G. Melrose is now assigned as For- 

 est Assistant to the Vernon District. 



The Forest Branch has so far lost, only 

 temporarily it is hoped, upwards of a dozen 

 moml>ers of its permanent force through 

 enlistment for active service. Some of 

 them are already at the front, others are 

 on their way, and the remainder will be 

 leaving with their battalions in the near 

 future. Their names are as follows: — J. B. 

 Mitchell, Deputy Dist. Forester; F. Mc- 

 Vickar, Forest Assistant; Win. Black, M. 

 M. Gibson, M. V. Allen, F. Edwards, J. 

 TurnbuU and T. Brewer, rangers; J. Mil- 

 roy, check scaler; J. Ketteringham, clerk; 

 J. R. Stone, draughtsman; J. Eddie, mes- 

 senger. In addition to the above men a 

 fairly large but unknown number of forest 

 guards and patrolmen have enlisted for 

 active service. 



A reconnaissance of the Pine River and 

 Tapper Parsnip River last summer resulted 

 in the discovery of 13 billion F.B.M. of 

 valuable spruce and balsam fir timber. 

 This timber is all directly tributary to the 

 extension of the Pacific Great Eastern 

 Railway which is to be built through Pine 

 Pass. It will form a very valuable future 

 timl)er supply for the prairie market. 



New Technical Organization. 



The Pulp and Paper Association of Can- 

 ada has formed a Technical Section. This 

 new section met and organized on March 

 5 at the Dominion Forest Products Labora- 

 tories at Montreal. The Laboratories will 

 for the present abstract current technical 

 literature and make it available for the 

 niembers. The secretary of the new sec- 

 tion is Mr. Roy L. Camjjbell, secretary of 

 the Pulp and Paper Association of Canada. 



Ottawa Foresters' Club. 



Ottawa foresters have been active lately. 

 There has been a meeting of the Foresters' 

 Club and at two meetings of the botanical 

 section of the Field Naturalists' Club for- 

 estry subjects have been up for discussion. 

 The meeting of the Ottawa Foresters' Club 

 wa-^ held on February 26 at the Universitv 

 C'ub. The President' of the club, Mr. R. H. 

 r'ampbell, was in the chair and the Vicc- 

 Presiilent, Mr. Clyde Leavitt was also 

 present. The other members of the club 

 ])resent were: Messrs. Boyd, Byshe, Dexter, 

 Dixon, Doucet, Dwight, Lawler, Macdon- 



