Excerpt from An Official Handbook of Information Relating to the Dominion of Canada: Published, With the Approval of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Government of Canada (Department of the Interior); January, 1894 The forest products of Canada constitute one of her most The Forest. Important sources of wealth. They find their way to all parts of the world - to the United States, to the United Kingdom, to our antipodes, the Australian colonies, and to South America. The Canadian saw-mills are among the most extensive and best appointed in the world. It excites the wonder Of the stranger to see a log taken out of the water by an automatic process, placed in a position under the saws, and reduced to inch boards in a few seconds. An American naturalist, at a recent meeting of the Scientific Association, stated that this summary process, of reducing in a few seconds a giant pine to boards for the use of man, contrasted strangely with the period of more than a century required for its growth. This industry in all Its stages employs large numbers of men, as well as affording freight to railways and shipping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.