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Identifier: conservationofwi01hewi (find matches)
Title: The conservation of the wild life of Canada
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hewitt, Charles Gordon, 1885-1920
Subjects: Game protection Birds Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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1535, stags were found in large numbers.The region of Kingston, Ont., is marked on Champlainsmap of 1632 as a region where these animals occurred inabundance. Father Lemoine, sailing on the St. Lawrencein 1653-4, found large numbers of what were undoubtedlywapiti in that region. To-day there are no wild wapitieast of Manitoba. In Manitoba they must have been very abundant in theearly days, judging from the large numbers of antlers thatare to be found, particularly in the southern portion of theprovince; but wapiti were exterminated from that regionof the province many years ago. To-day they are to befound fairly abundantly in the Riding Mountains, and inthe territory lying between Lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba.The increased protection afforded by the Riding MountainsGame Reserve is undoubtedly helping them to increase innumbers, and, in spite of much illegal killing that has taken * Our National Elk Herds, by H. S. Graves and E. W. Nelson. U. S.Dept. Agriculture, Circular No. 51, 1919.
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30 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE place, Mr. Charles Barber, the chief game warden for Mani-toba, informs me that they are increasing in numbers andthat the females appear to predominate. He believes thatthere are approximately six or seven hundred animals atthe present time. These are to be found in the followingdistricts: four or five hundred are in the vicinity of theRiding Mountains, and about one or two hundred are sup-posed to be roaming in the territory between Lakes Winni-peg and Manitoba. The Province of Manitoba is to be congratulated on theaction it took in 1917 in amending its game laws to providefor an absolute close season on wapiti. Such a wise andpublic-spirited step will undoubtedly assist this most de-sirable game and meat animal to regain somewhat its formernumbers in those portions of the province so admirablysuited to its needs, and unsuitable for agricultural develop-ment. In Saskatchewan Mr. F. Bradshaw, chief game guar-dian, stated in his annual report for

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