Excerpt from Canadian Forestry Journal, Vol. 1: January, 1905 Canada has from the beginning of her history been noted for the extent and riches of her forests, and the lumber industry has been one of the leading branches of her manifold activities, and has developed with her growth, forming a principal contributor to the domestic and export trade of the country, giving employ ment to a large section of the population, developing a healthy and sturdy class of men, and adding to the wealth and prosperity of the Dominion. At the same time the revenue received by some of the provincial governments directly from the forest has been one of the largest sources of income, and has rendered a re sort to direct taxation in any other form almost altogether un necessary. The export of domestic forest products for the last fiscal year was In Ontario and Quebec the usual revenue from woods and forests is from a million and a quarter to a million and a half dollars each year, and in the other pro vinces which control their own timber lands the revenue is stead ily on the increase. In New Brunswick, during 1903, it was In British Columbia the revenue for the present year was estimated at and it will probably be much larger. The total value of forest products, as stated by the Census of 1901, is for the census year, European students of forestry, who have been forced by the condition of affairs on that continent to give the wood supply careful thought, have sounded a note of alarm as to the future. We quote from M. Melard, one of the leading foresters of France. 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.