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which the Commission has had to 

 face. For several years an educa- 

 tional campaign has been carried on 

 by means of placards and literature 

 of various kinds aiming to persuade 

 the settlers to observe common- 

 sense methods of burning their 

 brush and slash. Of course. On- 



ism supplemented the argument of 

 the Railway Commissioners. 



Very naturally, settlers' fires have 

 been encountered frequently in 

 Northern Ontario, with undoubtedly 

 substantial losses to the surround- 

 ing districts and the province at 

 larere. 



One of the splendid fields of grain bordering the lines of the 

 Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Five large modern 

 barns may be counted in the distance. 



tario's lack of a permit law did not 

 facilitate the efforts of the Board in 

 this worthy direction. Everything 

 is left to the settlers' voluntary co- 

 operation. No such powerful lever- 

 age as the Quebec and British Co- 

 lumbia legal penalties for incendiar- 



The Chairman and his colleagues 

 are fully alive to the importance of 

 forest protection work and are eager 

 to take all steps within their power 

 to bring about a thorough and effec- 

 tive co-operation between the rail- 

 way, its officers, and the residents in 

 the country which it traverses. 



Considerable advance has been Manitoba 2,606,400 



made in Canada in the setting apart Saskatchewan 6,195.705.6 



of forest reserves. At the present Alberta .••••-.• 16,813,376 



time there are forest reservations British Columbia (in 



throughout the Dominion as fol- Railway Belt) 2,417,638.4 



lows: British Columbia (out- 

 Quebec 107.997,513 side Railway Belt). 2,474,240, 



Ontario' 14,430.720 making a total of 152,935,593 acres. 



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