. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forcslri/ Journal, Janiiaru, 1917 911 k ^•1 ;• J, ki^Mi L. FUR TRADING CAMP ON THE NELSON RIVER. NORTHERN MANITOBA. I Canada's Fur Crop Nearlp $2,000,000 J„_. „ „ u„ , , «, .,« « ,_, , , » ,„ ,„ „„_„„_„ Recent reports of severe forest fires in the neighborhood of Hudson Bay and James Bay mention the serious effects upon the trapping and fur trading activities of the Indian population. The last Dominion census gives the total value of Canada s fur crop in 1910 as $1,927,550. The item of greatest value in the ta
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forcslri/ Journal, Janiiaru, 1917 911 k ^•1 ;• J, ki^Mi L. FUR TRADING CAMP ON THE NELSON RIVER. NORTHERN MANITOBA. I Canada's Fur Crop Nearlp $2,000,000 J„_. „ „ u„ , , «, .,« « ,_, , , » ,„ ,„ „„_„„_„ Recent reports of severe forest fires in the neighborhood of Hudson Bay and James Bay mention the serious effects upon the trapping and fur trading activities of the Indian population. The last Dominion census gives the total value of Canada s fur crop in 1910 as $1,927,550. The item of greatest value in the table is that for "assorted furs", $445,320; muskrats, $256,213; martens, $221,583; and minks, $221,500. Tne largest pro- duction is naturally in the unorgani- zed territories, the value being $500,217. The figures do not apply to production of fur farms or from wild animals in captivity. 1 _.„ „ „_„_.—. 4. Gilmour is a 1908 graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College and also of the Department of Forestry in the University of Toronto. He has had experience in the employ of private lumber companies and also in the Forest Branch of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway and the Forest Branch of the Department of the Interior at Ottawa. Since 1912 he has been on the staff of the Forest Branch of the Department of Lands of British Col- umbia, being district forester at Cran- brook from 1912 to 1915 and on the head office staff at Victoria during the past year. J. D. Gilmour Promoted. John D. Gilmour, formerly with the Forest Branch of the Department of Lands of British Columbia, has re- signed in order to accept the position of general logging superintendent of the Anglo-Newfoundland Develop- ment Company, Ltd., a branch of the Harmsworth Company, owners and operators of imrnense pulpwood hold- ings in Newfoundland. Mr. Gilmour will assume his new duties during January, and will be stationed at Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Mr. B. C.'s Growing
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