DCHP-3

timber agent

Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an agent appointed by the federal government to regulate the use of timber on government land.

Quotations

1881
The appointment of a timber agent for the territories, with residence at Edmonton, has given every satisfaction, as it is in the interest of the people as well as of the government that the use of timber should be regulated so as to prevent waste.
1898
The timber agent has been beset by all kinds of fraudulent schemes. . . .