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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 
7} 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 
