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Table 108. — Merchantable timber in Canada on 

 inventoried nonreserved forest land, by Province 

 and by softwoods and hardwoods, 1968 1 



[Million cubic feet] 



Province 



Total 



Soft- 

 woods 



Hard- 

 woods 



British Columbia 2 . _ 



268, 635 



89, 331 



111,423 



130, 397 



29, 612 



261, 313 

 55, 923 

 66, 593 

 96, 954 

 22, 100 



7, 322 



Prairie Provinces _ . _ 



33, 408 



Ontario . . 



44, 830 



Quebec. . 



33, 443 



Atlantic Provinces 



7, 512 







Total ... . . 



629, 398 



502, 883 



126, 515 







1 Includes 445 million acres of inventoried forest land. 

 Excludes Labrador, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. 



2 Mature timber volumes only. 



Source: Manning, Glenn H., and H. Rae Grinnell. 

 Forest resources and utilization in Canada to the year 2000. 

 Dept. of the Environment, Canadian Forestry Serv. Publ. 

 1304, 80 p. Ottawa, Ont. 1971. 



decades, particularly following World War II. 

 Between 1950 and 1971 annual production of 

 lumber and paper and board roughly doubled 

 (table 109). Output of plywood and veneer and of 

 woodpulp climbed even more rapidly. 



These increases in output of industrial timber 

 products have been achieved with a much smaller 

 rise in timber cut. Partly this has been due to a 

 decline in fuelwood production. Partly it reflects 



a substantial improvement in timber utilization 

 practices. In 1968, for example, 26 percent of the 

 raw material used in Canadian pulp mills was 

 wood chips and other residues, compared with only 

 2 percent in 1950. 6 



Production Potentials 



The 1970 timber cut of about 4.3 billion cubic 

 feet in Canada was well below the calculated 

 sustainable allowable cut of 10.7 billion cubic 

 feet (table 110). Most of the unused Canadian 

 timber is in the undeveloped northern parts of 

 the Canadian provinces where utilization will 

 necessarily involve high development costs. Thus 

 it appears unlikely that a significant portion of 

 the unused allowable cut would be placed on the 

 market at 1970 prices. However, with June 1972 

 cost-price relationships for lumber and plywood, 

 and somewhat higher prices for pulp and paper, 

 the British Columbia Council of the Forest Indus- 

 tries has estimated that about 8 billion cubic 

 feet of allowable cut would be economically avail- 

 able (table HO). 



These and related projections of the Canadian 

 Forestry Service indicated that by 2000 production 

 of lumber, pulp, paper, and plywood could be 

 substantially increased over 1970 levels (table 

 111). These Canadian studies also indicate that 



6 Manning, Glenn H. The utilization of wood residue 

 in Canada. Canadian Forestry Serv., Forest Econ. Res. 

 Inst. Ottawa, 1972. 





Table 109- 



-Timber harvest and production of timber -products 



in Canada, by major product, 1950-71 1 







Total 

 timber 

 harvest 



Lumber 



Plywood (!4-inch basis) 



Veneer (Mo-inch basis) 



Paper and board 



Wood- 



Year 



Total 



Soft- 

 wood 



Hard- 

 wood 



Total 



Soft- 

 wood 



Hard- 

 wood 



Total 



Soft- 

 wood 



Hard- 

 wood 



Total 



News- 

 print 



Other 



pulp 



1950 



1951 



1952 

 1953 

 1954 



1955 



1956 

 1957 



1958 



1959 



1960 



1961 



1962 



1963 



1964 



1965 



1966 



1967 



1968 



1969 



1970 



1971 



Billion 

 cu. ft. 

 3.0 

 3.4 

 3.2 

 3.1 

 3.1 



3.3 

 3.5 

 3.2 

 2.9 

 3.2 



3.3 

 3.2 

 3.3 

 3.5 

 3.6 



3.7 

 3.8 

 3.8 

 4.0 

 4.3 



4.3 



NA 



Billion 

 board 

 feet 

 6.6 

 6.9 

 6.8 

 7.3 

 7.2 



7.9 

 7.7 

 7.1 

 7.2 

 7.6 



8.0 

 8.2 

 8.8 

 9.8 

 10.3 



10.8 

 10.6 

 10.3 

 11.4 

 11.5 



11.3 

 12.8 



Billion 

 board 

 feet 

 6.1 

 6.4 

 6.3 

 6.8 

 6.8 



7.5 

 7.3 



6.7 

 6.8 



7.2 



7.6 

 7.8 

 8.4 

 9.4 

 9.8 



10.3 

 10.0 



9.7 

 10.8 

 11.0 



10.8 

 12.3 



Billion 



board 



feet 



0.5 



.5 



.5 



.5 



.4 



.4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 



.4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .5 



.5 

 .6 

 .6 

 .6 

 .5 



.5 

 .5 



Billion 



square 



feet 



0.5 



.6 



.6 



.8 



.9 



1.2 

 1.3 



1.2 

 1.5 

 1.5 



1.6 

 1.9 

 2.0 

 2.5 



2.6 



2.7 

 3.0 

 3.1 

 3.3 

 3.4 



3.1 

 3.5 



Billion 



square 



feet 



0.4 



.5 



.5 



.6 



.7 



1.0 

 1.1 

 1.1 

 1.3 

 1.2 



1.4 

 1.6 

 1.7 

 2.1 

 2.2 



2.3 

 2.6 



2.7 

 2.9 

 3.0 



2.8 

 3.2 



Billion 



square 



feet 



0.1 



.1 



.1 



.2 



.2 



.2 

 .2 

 .1 

 .2 

 .3 



.2 

 .3 

 .3 



.4 

 .4 



.4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 



.3 

 .3 



Billion 



square 



feet 



0.4 



.5 



.4 



.6 



.5 



.6 

 1.3 



.7 

 .8 

 .8 



.7 

 .7 

 .9 

 1.1 

 .9 



1.4 

 1.9 

 1.8 

 1.9 

 2.3 



2.2 



NA 



BUlion 



square 



feet 



0.2 



.3 



.2 



.3 



.2 



.3 



1.1 

 .5 

 .6 

 .6 



.5 

 .5 

 .6 



.8 

 .6 



1.0 

 1.5 

 1.4 

 1.5 

 1.9 



1.9 



NA 



Billion 



square 



feet 



0.2 



-.2 



.2 



.3 



.3 



.3 



.2 

 .2 

 .2 

 .2 



.2 

 .2 

 .3 

 .3 

 .3 



.4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 

 .4 



.3 



NA 



Million 

 tons 

 6.8 



7.2 

 7.2 

 7.4 

 7.7 



8.0 

 8.5 

 8.3 

 8.1 

 8.5 



8.9 

 9.1 

 9.2 

 9.3 

 10.2 



10.9 

 11.9 

 11.6 

 11.8 

 12.9 



12.8 

 12.4 



Million 

 tons 

 5.3 

 5.5 

 5.7 

 5.8 

 6.0 



6.2 

 6.5 

 6.4 

 6.0 

 6.3 



6.7 

 6.7 

 6.7 

 6.6 

 7.4 



7.8 

 8.5 

 8.2 

 8.2 



8.9 



8.8 

 8.3 



Million 

 tons 

 1.5 

 1.7 

 1.5 

 1.6 

 1.7 



1.8 

 2.0 

 1.9 

 2.1 

 2.2 



2.2 

 2.4 

 2.5 



2.7 

 2.8 



3.1 

 3.4 

 3.4 

 3.6 



4.0 



4.0 

 4.1 



Million 

 tons 

 8.5 

 9.3 

 9.0 

 9.1 

 9.7 



10.2 

 10.7 

 10.4 

 10.1 

 10.8 



11.5 

 11.8 

 12.1 

 12.5 

 13.7 



14.6 

 16.0 

 15.9 

 16.8 

 18.6 



18.3 

 17.9 



1 Excluding Labrador, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. 



Sources: 1950-68 (except woodpulp). Manning, Glenn H., and H. Rae Grin- 

 nell. Forest resources and utilization in Canada to the year 2000. Dept. of the 



Environment, Canadian Forestry Serv. Publ. 1304, 80 p. Ottawa, Ont. 1971. 

 1969-71 (except woodpulp). Statistics— Canada, Annual Census of Manu- 

 factures. Woodpulp— American Paper Institute, Inc. Wood pulp statistics. 



