INFORMATION ON WEATHERING OF PLYWOOD GLUES.

The Canadian Government
Forest Products Laboratory,
established in 1918 to study
problems associated with for-
est products, celebrated its
50th anniversary “Open
House” December 6, at its
headquarters on the UBC
campus.

The original purpose of the
Laboratory was to develop
engineering data on Sitka
Spruce used in aircraft con-

struction during the First
World War. These data were

requested by the British Gov-
ernment through its Depart-
ment of Aeronautical Supply.

At that time, the Labora-
tory had six employees who
worked out of the Fairview
shacks of the University of
British Columbia, when UBC
was located where the Van-
couver General Hospital is
now situated. When the Uni-

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versity moved in 1925, the
Laboratory moved with it.

The Forestry Branch’of the
Department of Fisheries and
Forestry operates nine re-
gional research laboratories in
Canada; two of these labora-
tories are devoted solely to
research in forest products,
while the other seven labora-
tories direct their attention
primarily to’ problems asso-
ciated with the growing
forest.

Although each Laboratory
devotes it major attention to
regional problems, each has
responsibilities in certain pro-
gram areas which ext end
from coast to coast. Thus the
Vancouver Laboratory un-
dertakes all of the pulping re-
search for the Department,
and the Ottawa Laboratory

accepts the national responsi-
bility on behalf of the De-

partment in research on pack-
aging, paints and coatings,
and fire retardants. This poli-
cy avoids the fragmentation
of effort in a research field and
enables the Department to
bring together the necessary
research facilities at minimum
cost. 2

There are 125 employed at
the Vancouver Laboratory at
the present time working on
problems related to wood en-
gineering, wood utilization
(harvesting, sawmilling, sea-
soning), physics, chemistry,
preservation, plywood (ve-
neer, plywood, gluing), pulp-
ing, (biology, pathology, stain
and decay), anatomy (wood
structure and quality) ento-
mology (insect attack).

The primary objective of
the Laboratory: Through re-
search and development to
promote the greater and more

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From a humble beginning in 1918 se¢
Government, The Canadian Government F
is now responsible for developing and p?

forest resources in the interests of the Ca

efficient utilization of the for-
est resource in the interests
of the Canadian economy.

The Laboratory is problem-
oriented. Problems are
brought to its attention and
their significance and poten-
tial benefit to the Canadian
economy are appraised by
three Advisory Committees,
one dealing. with problems af-
fecting lumber, another ply-
wood, and a third, engineer-
ing. The committees are com-
prised of regional representa-
tives from industry, the pro-
vincial governments of British
Columbia and Alberta, and
the Department of Fisheries
and Forestry. Representatives
from other research groups
attend these meetings to avoid
duplication in research. These
other groups include: The
University of British Colum-
bia; the British Columbia Re-

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search Council; the United,
States Forest Products La-
boratory, Madison, Wisconsin;
the larger Industrial Research *
Laboratories; and the Re-
gional Forest Research La-,
boratories of the Departments |
of Fisheries and Forestry in|
the two western provinces. ~

Also operative is a seven-
man National Advisory Com- ’
mittee with responsibility to
appraise the over-all program }
of forest products research in»
Canada. This committee is ad- ,.
visory to the Deputy Minister.

It should not be overlooked x
that the Vancouver Labora- |
tory is only one of several
contributors to the solution of
problems affecting the forest |
products industry. Industry ©
itself is a major contributor
and solves many of its in- *
house problems without ref-
erence to the Laboratory or »

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