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remaining are almost wholly owned privately, the 14,- 

 000 acres of state land being, like most of the private 

 property, stripped of its value. 



In New Brunswick over 1.6 million acres, mostly 

 woodland (containing over 10 billion feet) was granted 

 to the railway company and another million acres or so 

 is in other private possession; a liberal disposal of 

 lands having been continued until 1883, when about 

 7i million acres of timber and waste land remained to 

 the crown. 



In Quebec some 13 million acres are privately owned, 

 of which 5.5 million in woodlots on farms. In On- 

 tario the private woodland area of commercial char- 

 acter may be over 5 million acres. 



Besides the large grants which are probably to the 

 greatest extent in timberlands, the farms in the various 

 provinces, according to the Census of 1901, have from 

 22 to 57 percent in woodlots, or altogether probably 

 in the neighborhood of 30 million acres. 



The largest part of the forest area, however, is still 

 in crown lands, the government of the different prov- 

 inces and the Dominion government in the territories 

 and in Manitoba administering them and deriving the 

 revenue therefrom. This condition has prevailed 

 since 1837, when the home government gave up its 

 claim to lands and revenues. 



The provincial ownership extends over about 500,000 

 square miles. The Dominion government owns an 

 area of 20,000 square miles in the railway belt of 

 British Columbia, 20 miles on each side of the railway 

 for 500 miles, which contains good timber, and some 



