CHAPTER IX 



DOMINION FOREST RESERVES 



/^ AN ADA and the United States, being next 

 ^^ door neighbors as well as near of kin, have 

 experienced many of the same trials, toils, and 

 blessings. Their International Boundary is, in 

 many places, a man-made line, with soil, climate, 

 vegetation, and wild life the same on both sides. 

 Along the northern limits of New England a 

 clearing fifteen feet wide goes, up hill and down 

 dale, through the woods, and serves as a prop- 

 erty line between the two nations. 



Their histories, as white men's countries, begin 

 together. But the great tides of immigration 

 turned first to the United States. Hence, ques- 

 tions which Washington was forced to consider 

 a score of years ago are just confronting Ottawa 

 today. Uncle Sam has been sometimes an exam- 

 ple to Miss Canada, and sometimes a warning. 

 In Forest Conservation he has set her a good 

 example which she is now diligently following. 



The eastern provinces of Canada, which are 

 just a little older than New England, have been 

 taught by experience to value trees. They have 



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