348 Canada. 
and of the home country has been considerable, and is 
growing, Indian forest officers being detailed to assist 
in developing forest policies in these other parts of the 
British empire. 
CANADA. 
The largest single colony of Great Britain and the 
most important as regards forest supplies, both as to 
quantity and character, Canada has been for a long 
time supplying the mother country with a large pro- 
portion of her imports. Newfoundland is politically 
outside of the Dominion of Canada, but geographically 
the name Canada is used to designate the whole of the 
Northern portion of the continent. 
Although in size larger than the United States, its 
land area being estimated at over 3,600,000 square 
miles, Canada has so far attained only one-fifteenth of 
the population of her neighbor, namely less than 6 
million. Much of her territory is still unknown, and 
will remain for a long time unavailable for civilization 
owing to its inhospitable climate. Indeed, as yet not 
one-third of its territory may be considered opened up 
to civilization, and hardly more than 100,000 square 
miles can be said to be occupied, one-half improved in 
farms, and two-thirds of this in crops. 
Report on the Forest Wealth of Canada, by the Statistician of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, 1895. 
Reports of Crown Lands Departments, of Bureau of Forestry of Ontario, and 
of Forestry Branch of the Dominion. 
Derepaucn's History of the Lumber Industry of America, Vol. I, 1906, 
brings together much information on this phase of the subject, 
Hovucu’s Report on Forestry, Vol. II, 1880, has a compilation of earlier 
statistics. 
