UNEXPLORED CANADA

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1930, Page 10

UNEXPLORED CANADA

NEW SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE.

The . Canadian Geographical Society, one of the Dominion’s newest national organizations, was able to report a membership running into the thousands when the first annual meeting was held here. The Society was organized only a few months ago, and is intended to fill a place in Canada such as is occupied ill. the United Kingdom by the Royal Geographical and the Royal Scottish Geographical. . The list of officers is headed by the Governor-General as honorary patron and includes foremost scientists, explorers and professional men of every province. Dr. Robert Camael’. of. Ottawa, deputy Minister of Mines for Canada, is president. Great need for an organization which woyld make Canada known more widely and more accurately not only to outsiders but to her own people has been experienced for years, and particularly since the Northern areas began to open before the prospector and the explorer. Dr. Camsell has stated that though Canada is one of the largest countries of the world, fully half of her area is very imperfectly known and about one-quar-ter, exclusive of the Arctic islands, is quite unexplored. The Canadian Geographical Society is intended to collect and distribute accurate information of the Dominion’s more remote parts, and as well to make known the geography, culture and resources of the settled areas. The new society has received a most cordial welcome from scientific organizations throughout the Empire, and encouraging public support in this country. It will publish an official journal under the direction of Lawrence J. Burpee, of Ottawa, secretary of the Canadian section of the International Joint Commission, along the general lines of the Royal Geographical Journal.