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Identifier: conservationoffi00canarich (find matches)
Title: Conservation of fish, birds and game
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Canada. Commission of conservation. Committee of fisheries, game and fur-bearing animals
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market that this slaughter can be stopped. I do not know what the figures are with regard to Canada, but your hotels must be using great quantities of game. When I was in Edmonton this autumn, there were wild ducks on the table dhote bill of fare. When such a novelty appears, everybody orders it, and that means that every day they appear on the menu several hundreds of wild birds are sacrificed. The dining cars are using great quantities of game. Unless we stop all these causes of destruction, game will inevitably be carried rapidly towards extinction. Hunting for Food Creates Scarcity Just as an example of the difference between sections where game is killed under restrictions and sections where it is killed for food, compare New Brunswick with the Peace River country. New Brunswick *The constitutionality of the Migratory Bird Act has been questioned and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court for determination but, whatever the outcome, the no-sale-of-game laws will continue their effective work.
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PROHIBITION OF THE SALE OF GAME 99 has been the Mecca of the sportsman for years, and the shooting has been so well regulated that the moose have held their own and there is still a plentiful supply there. Out in the Peace River country, where I suppose you could count on your fingers the number of sportsmen who have ever hunted, the Indians are half starved for lack of meat. Respecting the demand of the cities, I think it needs no argument that that ought to be stopped. But consider also the remote sections where they are using big game to feed railway construction crews and to feed the settlers who are going into the country. The game cannot stand that. R.MSiNG Game in Captivity Of course, when you propose laws prohibiting the sale of game you have some opposition, especially from the dealers. Let me tell you an interesting fact. When the law prohibiting the sale of game was proposed in New York state, the pot-hunters fought it like tigers. The hotel men did not fight it. The President of the

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