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Title: Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of Ontario.
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission.
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Publisher: Toronto : King's Printer
Contributing Library: Ontario Legislative Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Law Foundation of Ontario & the Ontario Council of University Libraries

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racks ormarks of numerous varieties around tl»e vicinity of the camp. At thepresent time no protection is afforded the reserve fiom October to ^lay,and the very abundance of the big ganie and fur-bearing animals un-doubtedly oifers very gre-at temptation to the liuiiter and trapper who isaware of this fact. Indeed, investigation of such evidence as was obtain-able and the examination of nunurous witnesses all tended to indicatethat advantage is taken of the unguarded condition of the reserve andthat considerable de))redations in these directions are annually elTected.In the winter, when the lakes are frozen over and the forests bare, travel-ling is very considerably facilitated, and it would a)))iear Ihat huntersand trappers alike enter the reserve, chieliy. jierhaps. fi-oni the States,and shoot the moose and other game and cai)ture the fur-bearing aninmlsto their hearts content, removing tlieii- tio)>hies across the border Bear Lake Portage,on the way to theQuetico ForestReserve.
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A (orner of LakeSeiggilagan. 1912 AND FISHEKIES COMMISSION. 179 before the snow melts aud before the appearance of the provincialrangers. In addition to this it would seem that various families ofIndians, located in the vicinity, establish their winter hunting and trap-ping grounds within the confines of the reserve. It is, of course, not tobe expected that over so great an area, which has been placed in reserveonly comparatively recently and which is so difficult of access, theranging service and general arrangements should have been sufficientlyperfected, within the short space of time available, to prevent all illegaldepredations on the wild life in the reserve, but it would appear fromthe evidence obtained in the localit)^ that the extent of these depreda-tions is in all probability very considerable and. consequently that,unless something is done to check them in the near future, the game andfur-bearing resources of the reserve will be materially impaired. In fact,the reserve sho

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