1929 (which required lumber companies to institute reforestation plans for the areas they held under license) In addition to the Department of Lands and Forests, he was also assigned responsibility for the Department of Northern Development. He also became an advocate for the expansion of the provincial parks system probably the first influential politician in the Province to do so and was instrumental in swapping timber limits with the Spanish River Company in order to save the natural beauty of Trout Lake (later renamed as O.S.A. Lake), which was incorporated in 1964 into the newly created Killarney Provincial Park. Losing his seat in 1934, he was subsequently reelected in 1937. In 1939, he resigned his seat in order to enable George Drew, the new party leader, to be elected to the Assembly. He died in 1943, after a brief illness. Legacy Several places in the province have been named after Finlayson: Finlayson Township, formerly a geographic township in the District of Nipissing, is now part of the Township of Lake of Bays in the District Municipality of Muskoka. Finlayson Point, established as a provincial campground in Temagami (part of the District of Nipissing), became Finlayson Point Provincial Park in the mid-1950s Further reading Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1925, E.J. Chambers References External links 1875 births Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Mayors of places in Ontario People from Midland, Ontario 1943 deaths