The Canadian Forestry Association (CFA) is Canada's oldest conservation organization. It was established on March 8, 1900 by a group of influential Canadians from government and industry, at the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa ON.
The group included renowned lumber baron
J. R. Booth
John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 – December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron. He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway (from Georgi ...
, former Quebec Premier
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, William Little,
Thomas Southworth,
Dr. William Saunders, and Chief Inspector of Timber and Forestry for the
Dominion Forest Service,
Elihu Stewart.
Shortly afterwards, the CFA launched ''
The Canadian Forestry Journal'' a publication of technical reports on the state of forests as well as articles promoting conservation of forest resources. This became more oriented to the public as ''The Illustrated Canadian Forest and Outdoors Magazine'', ''The Canadian Forestry Magazine'' and ''Illustrated Forest and Outdoors''.
It was articles by pioneering Canadian conservationist and writer
Grey Owl in ''Forests and Outdoors'', that first brought him into the public eye.
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Canadian Forestry Association
(archived in 2005)
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Forest conservation organizations
1900 establishments in Ontario