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Title: Canadian forestry journal
Identifier: canadianforestry16canauoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa) : Canadian Forestry Association
Contributing Library: ROM - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Canadian Forestry Magazine, November, ig20 501
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Photo by A. P. Low, Geological Survey. Labrador: The mouth of the Wiachouan River, Richmond Gulf. As the accompanying article by Dr. Grenfell explains clearly, the timber lies in pockets, some representing quite heavy stands, but not near the coast. Recently, Labrador has come into the limelight as a possible source of new pulpwood supplies. there. One doctor, who came to us from Uganda, put on over 14 pounds weight during the winter. Problems of the People. The occupations of our people at pre- sent are seasonal. Neither fur nor fish can be considered a constant harvest. The fur is apt to run in cycles, the foxes and their food, the mice, disappearing for a couple of years simultaneously; so that, as is the case this year, we know the hunt will be small and there will be short- age and possible hunger on the coast. Similarly with the Cod; some years they fail to reach into the land, they and the bait fish, called Caplin, being simultan- eously missing along certain sections of the Coast. We believe this depends en- tirely upon the local temperature of the water, whether due directly to the winds or indirectly to ice movements, the dif- ference of one degree we think makes a difference to the bait fish which lure the cod to the shore wIumi they (C'aplinI come to s))awn. Thai these wage giving in'ustries should he introduced is tliere- fore of the utmost imi)ortance as far as the welfare of the Coast is concerned. and we. who live there, most earnestly hope that the boundary question may soon be settled, that proper grants be issued to encourage operators and that tlie laws concerning grants be rigidly en- forced. At present, one of the great hardships, and one that is very materially alTecting the population is the fact that the residents of the Coast may not start even small lumber mills because jirovis- ional grants have been made of practic- ally all the available countr\- lo com- panies who do not work the area, but continue to hold the rights in spite of existing laws to the contrary. Most of these holders have done nothing for the country, do not li\c in the country, and simply have taken up the rights in the hope of selling them for personal gain. .Several grants haw already been sold and resold, but ne\er yet worked and show no signs of commencing. In these da\s of ever-increasing industrial un- rest this t'onn ot' proliteering is a con- stant source ot' irritation to the laboring )K'ople and is un(;uestionably a factor that makes for unreasoning resentment to all law ami order.

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