. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 20 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Meeting of Lumbermen's Association Annual Gathering of the New Body—Reports of an Active and Successful Year—Old Officers Re-Elected Representative Attendence of Members The annual meeting of the. Canadian Lumbermen's Association was held in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 19th, in the Board of Trade cham- bers. The president, Mr. Gordon C. Edwards, occupied the chair and there was a representative gathering of lumbermen from many parts of
. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 20 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Meeting of Lumbermen's Association Annual Gathering of the New Body—Reports of an Active and Successful Year—Old Officers Re-Elected Representative Attendence of Members The annual meeting of the. Canadian Lumbermen's Association was held in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 19th, in the Board of Trade cham- bers. The president, Mr. Gordon C. Edwards, occupied the chair and there was a representative gathering of lumbermen from many parts of Canada. After the transaction of preliminary business the members listened to an address by Mr. R. H. Campbell, * Superintendent of the Dominion Bureau of Forestry, upon the work which the Bureau is doing. Mr. Campbell explained .at some length the efforts which lie is making to obtain from manufacturers of lumber throughout Canada an accurate statement as to the amount of lumber, lath, shingles, pulpwood, etc., which they cut, so that an estimate of the annual cut may he obtained'. Gordon C. Edwards, Ottawa, President of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. There should be some definite record, he said, of the wood production of Canada. The Dominion Department of Forestry was therefore mak- ing an attempt to gather these statistics and intended to undertake the work annually. The work could only be done with the cardial co-opera- tion of lumbermen and others engaged in the wood industries. They hoped to be able to organize as efficient a service for the obtaining of these statistics, as the service which had recently been established in the United States. If the department could obtain the co-operation of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association in this work it would be of great advantage. No information obtained from the lumbermen for this pur- pose would be made public, which could do any injury to those who supplied the information. All information received, in fact, would
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