Johnson G. (1895) Report on the Forest Wealth of Canada. Appendix to the Report of the Minister of 
     
     Agriculture for 1894. The Queen’s Printer, Ottawa. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The fol/o wing extract comes from a report on the forest resources of Canada prepared by George Johnson, described 
     
     on the title page as ”the statistician of the Department of Agriculture’. Johnson seems to have composed his report 
     
     by collating information from previous reports of various types, as well as including new information. For each 
     
     province he presents a list of tree species. The list for Prince Edward Island contains twenty-five names from which 
     
     there are three notable absences: red oak, red pine, and jack pine (these were all listed for Nova Scotia and New 
     
     Brunswick), and he was uncertain whether cedar occurred or not. He also includes basswood, a species that, 
     
     though it may have occurred as a planted tree, was not native to the island, and he continues to distinguish 
     
     incorrect/y between yellow and black birch. Given that there were other contemporary lists that were more accurate 
     
    
   
   
    
     leg. Macoun 7894, McSwain & 3th 7 89 ll it is a question as to who supplied Johnson with the information for his 
     
     list. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A” earlier In 1885 the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island said in reply [to a request 
     
     comment from the British Government for reports on the forest of Canada], "there are no forests 
     
     of any extent in the province of Prince Edward Island, where they have disappeared 
     
     under the axes of the settler and the lumberman.” [p. 6] 
     
    
   
   
    
     PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     A great part of this island was once thickly wooded, but at present it produces no 
     
     more timber and lumber than it requires. The extent of the Crown lands remaining 
     
     Some Pme- unalienated is small and it is not first class forest. Some pine still exists and with the 
     
     , other coniferous trees and some excellent hardwood of various kinds supplies the local 
     
     White cedar. demand. The white cedar, if indigenous, is very rare. [p. 98] 
     
    
   
   
    
     BOTANICAL NAME. ENGLISH NAME. FRENCH NAME. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The tree list. 
     
     Abies balsamea. Balsam fir. Sapin blanc. 
     
    

    
     Acer Pennsylvanicum. Striped maple. Erable jaspé. 
     
    

    
     do rubrum. Red maple. do rouge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     do saccharinum. Sugar maple. do a sucre. 
     
     do spicatum. Mountain maple. do batarde. 
     
     Betula lenta. Black birch. Bouleau noir. 
     
     do lutea. Yellow birch. do élancé. 
     
     do papyrifera. Canoe birch. do a canot. 
     
     do populifolia. Poplar-leaved birch. do rouge. 
     
     Fagus ferruginea. Beech. Hétre. 
     
     Fraxinus Americana. White ash. Fréne blanc. 
     
     do sambucifolia. Black ash. do noir. 
     
     Larix Americana. Larch. Epinette rouge. 
     
     Ostrya Virginica. Iron wood. Bois de fer. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Picea alba. White spruce. Petite epinette. 
     
     do nigra. Black spruce. Grosse epinette. 
     
     Pinus strobus. White pine. Pin blanc. 
     
     Pirus Americana Mountain ash. Cormier. 
     
     Populus balsamifera. Balsam poplar. Baumier. 
     
     do grandidentata. Large-toothed poplar. Peuplier. 
     
     do tremuloides. Aspen. Tremble. 
     
     Salix nigra. Black willow. Saule noir. 
     
     Tilia Americana. Bass wood. Bois blanc. 
     
     Tsuga Canadensis. Hemlock. Pruche. 
     
     Ulmus Americana. White elm. Orme blanc. [p. 991 
     
    
   
   
    
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