7362 Canada. 
722,000 square miles of land in the territories and in 
Manitoba which contains only timber suitable for 
local use. 
3. Derelopment of Forest Policy. 
In the development of ownership conditions the 
-realization of the valuable assets in timber growth had 
not been overlooked by the home government, care 
‘of supplies for naval construction giving, as in the 
United States, the first incentive to a conservative 
-forest. policy. 
Even under the early French rule, the grants of land 
were made under reservation of the oak timber fit for 
naval use, as is evidenced from a landgrant made in 
1683. This reservation led to considerable friction 
-as it hampered the colonists in making their clearings 
on the best lands. Later the reservation was extended 
to include other timber needed for military purposes, 
and when the British occupation began, these estab- 
lished rights of the crown were not only continued, but 
reservations of entire larger areas for the timber were 
-ordered, notably around and north of Lake Champlain. 
In 1763, and again in 1775 the home government 
ordered reservations to be set aside in every township. 
But the great timberwealth seemed so inexhaustible 
-that the governors paid little attention to the wise 
‘instructions of the home government for the creation 
of reservations, and whatever regulations regarding 
‘the cutting of timber were made, failed to be strictly 
.enforced. In 1789 the policy of reserving to the crown 
_all the timber as far as not granted, and giving licenses 
‘to cut, was inaugurated; but not until 1826 was even 
