1824  (1955)  The descent is steep & covered with such a luxuriance of brush wood and a kind of Silver Pine (the Canadians name Sapin before mentioned) degenerated into a low shrub growing in feathery branches rising from a low Knotty root. . . .
1883  The sides of the mountains for a considerable height are well timbered with spruce, poplar, silver pine, and hemlock.
1956  Balsam Fir [is also called] silver pine . . . Canadian fir.