. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. September, 1896 CANADA'S EARLY TIMBER TRADE. The following interesting account of the origin of the Canadian timber trade was given by the lecturer on Trade and Commerce at the British American Business College, Toronto : During the French regime little or nothing was done towards the utilization of the forest wealth of this country. The French recognized the grand possibilities in the forests of the new colony, and in their dreams of naval greatness, saw materia
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. September, 1896 CANADA'S EARLY TIMBER TRADE. The following interesting account of the origin of the Canadian timber trade was given by the lecturer on Trade and Commerce at the British American Business College, Toronto : During the French regime little or nothing was done towards the utilization of the forest wealth of this country. The French recognized the grand possibilities in the forests of the new colony, and in their dreams of naval greatness, saw material for building and equipping fleets for commercial and military purposes. Regula- tions were issued to protect the trees from fire, but the forests of New France were considered as a future rather than a present source of wealth. After Canada was ceded to England but little attention was paid for many years to its forest wealth. Northern Europe supplied the manu- facturing world with wood, and as this trade was carried on almost exclusively in British ships, Englishmen were content to let well enough alone. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, were all consumers of British goods, and lumber afforded the exporter a convenient cargo for the return voyage. But in the wars which England waged during the latter part of the eighteenth century with several countries of Europe, in- spired by Napoleon, the Baltic trade came abruptly to a close. Napoleon, in a gigantic project, known as the "Continental System," sought to strike a death blow at British trade by closing the ports of Europe against her ships. The politics of Europe at that time favored an alliance of Russia, Denmark and Sweden with France and Spain, against Great Britain. Although the "Continental System" soon came to grief in face of the aggressive policy of Great Britain, the project served to impress upon her rulers the importance of developing trade between the different parts of the Empire. The Xorth A
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