. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 134 Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1915. Death of Mr. Aubrey White, Mr. Aubrey White, , Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests for On- tario, died suddenly, of the rupture of a blood vessel in the head, at his sum- mer home in Muskoka on July 14. ]\Ir. White was taking a brief holiday and the fatal attack occurred in the evening of the 13th after he had been spending the day in the open air in the woods and on the lake, and he died early the following morning. Mr. White was ])orn in Omagh. County Tyrone, Irela
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 134 Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1915. Death of Mr. Aubrey White, Mr. Aubrey White, , Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests for On- tario, died suddenly, of the rupture of a blood vessel in the head, at his sum- mer home in Muskoka on July 14. ]\Ir. White was taking a brief holiday and the fatal attack occurred in the evening of the 13th after he had been spending the day in the open air in the woods and on the lake, and he died early the following morning. Mr. White was ])orn in Omagh. County Tyrone, Ireland, on March 19. 1845. He came to Canada at the age of seventeen and did pioneering work in IMuskoka from 1862, later getting into the lumbering business in that district. He entered the service of the Ontario Government as a forest ranger in 1876, and so in tlie course of his term of just about forty years he had passed through all gradations of the service from the lowest to the highest. He was appointed Crown timber agent at Bracebridge, Mus- koka, in 1878 and two years later was brought to Toronto as Chief Clerk of Woods and Forests. These were formative years in the Department and in 1887 he became Assistant Com- missioner of Crown Lands, which of- fice later was entitled that of Deputy ^linister. This was tlie post which Mr. White lield at the time of his death, having been the administrator and confidential adviser of sixteen or seventeen ministers and five Govern- ments, including a change from Lib- eral to Conservative administration. Probably Mr. White's greatest indi- vidual achievement was the establish- ing in 1885 of the fire ranging system, the first on the continent and which after thirty years' development now covers northern Ontario with a force of rangers at a cost of about $250,000 per year, exclusive of the amount ])aid out by lumbermen in patroling their limits. But what many regarded as. The late Aubrey White, of equal or greater importance was Mr.
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