considered as absolute “watershed forest” where no 
trees should be cut. The remainder was intended 
to be used as lumber, fuel, pulp-wood for making 
paper, and for other purposes, but all should be 
preserved by law from careless cutting and burning. 
Lumbering and all that depends upon lumbering 
is the biggest business in the whole of Canada. 
Without considering agriculture, lumbering and its 
allies employ more men, pay more wages, and carry 
more capital invested than any other in the 
Dominion. 
If you could collect at one point all the Can¬ 
adian men employed in lumbering or wood manu¬ 
facture they would form a longer procession than all 
the inhabitants of Hamilton or Ottawa. No less 
than 110,000 men and their families get their liveli¬ 
hood from our Canadian woods. This does not 
take into account the many thousands who get their 
living in transporting wood products on railways, 
or making wooden parts of implements, or the mer¬ 
chants who serve this great class or all the other 
people who might correctly be counted in. 
These armies of good citizens engaged in making 
up forest products into everyday articles depend 
entirely upon a perpetual wood supply for their 
employment. Not one of them gets his living out 
of a burned forest. So, every time a boy or man 
keeps fire from damaging the woodlands, he keeps 
some Canadian wage-earner from losing his employ¬ 
ment. 
Looking to a Tree for Meals. 
Have you seen the “pulp and paper towns” at 
Espanola or Thorold or Iroquois Falls, in Ontario, 
or Grand Mere in Quebec, or some of the thriving 
lumber mill towns scattered all across Canada? It 
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