“Canada’s forest wealth has been one of the great instruments in her progress, and it is with the object of more fully drawing public attention to this source of wealth, that the foregoing pages have been written.”
A scarce work by Canadian naturalist Henry Beaumont Small (1832-1919). This attractive pamphlet gives detailed statistics on the productivity of timber industries in different forest regions, with much data on biodiversity. The majority of the text is concerned with classifying and describing the trees found in each province, with information on their various uses. There are also sections on cattle, forest fires, parasites, maple sugar, sumac, and paper making.
British born Small emigrated to Canada in the 1850s, and after a brief stint serving in the US Sanitary Commission in Virginia during the American Civil War, he joined the Canadian civil service in the Marine and Fisheries, and subsequently Agriculture Departments. He wrote many works on natural history, his most famous being The Canadian Handbook and Tourist’s Guide (1866).
This publication is rare. OCLC finds copies in Canada at: Universite Laval, U of Northern B.C., B et A Nat. de Quebec, Lib & Archives Canada, Toronto PL; in Europe at: BNF & Belgium; and in US at National Agriculture Library only.
