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commercial policies being uppermost. But by en- 
couraging manufacture rather than export of raw 
materials, indirectly the effect must have been in the 
direction of more economic use of forest resources. 
Outside of official departments, private endeavor 
led to the formation of the Quebec Forestry Association, 
and in 1900, largely through official effort, the Canadian 
Forestry Association came into existence. 
This Association has grown more and more vigorous, 
and having escaped the period of sentimentalism which 
in the United States retarded the movement so long, 
could at once accentuate the economic point of view 
and bring the lumbermen into sympathy with their 
effort. In 1905 a quarterly magazine, the Canadian 
Forestry Journal was started by the Association, 
making its work of instruction and propaganda more 
effective. 
A most promising convention held in January 1906, 
with the Premier of the Dominion presiding, partici- 
pated by prominent officials and business men, fore- 
shadows the time when a real rational forest manage- 
ment at least in some parts of the Dominion may be 
inaugurated. 
Tentative attempts to provide instruction in forestry 
at some of the Universities have so far failed to lead 
to any definite action, except that the government of 
Ontario is committed to the inauguration of a chair 
of forestry in Toronto University, and some instruction 
in farm forestry has been given in the Agricultural 
College at Guelph. 
