Canadian Forestrp 3ournal 



Vol, XII. 



February, 1916. 



(Printed at Kingston, Ont.) 



No. 2. 



T. R. T. Photo. 



Clay plain in the Northern Subdivision of the Upland Country. 



Forests of the District of Patricia 



Population, 3000 Indians, 9 Whites — Averag-e of Whole Country 



About Two Cords Per Acre. 



By 

 J. B. Tyrrell, M.A., M.E., F.R.S.C, F.G.S. 



The district of Patricia lies in the 

 extreme North-western portion of 

 the Province of Ontario and consti- 

 tutes that vast new country which 

 has recently been handed over to it 

 by the Dominion. Up to the last 



few years it was an unorganized and 

 practically unknown portion of 

 Canada directly under the control of 

 the central Government at Ottawa. 

 It has an area of 150,000 square 

 miles, more than three times the 



