ing grounds, whilst the Indian guides, necessary for the full enjoyment of sport, know all other likely grounds. Cariboo are found in the Cobequid Mountain district. Grouse are plentiful all through the province, but the finest shooting is woodcock, which are found in great numbers. Snipe are tolerably abundant and salmon, abound in all the rivers, whilst the number of trout will surprise the fisherman unaccustomed to Canadian streams.

The principal attractions of New Brunswick for the sportsman are moose, cariboo, salmon and the St. Croix trout or land-locked salmon. Moose are not nearly as abundant as in former years, and can only be found by parties visiting the province, enlisting an old hunter in their cause. The great Tantamar marsh in the south-eastern part of the province has the reputation of being a splendid snipe ground, while the Restigouche is equally celebrated for the quantity of wild fowl, especially geese, that visit it. The fishing in the New Brunswick rivers is especially good. The Nipisiguit. Miramichi, Restigouche, St. John, and others afford the salmon fisher glorious sport-a pilgrimage to the Restigouche would afford sufficient material to keep his memory busy for years to come. A well-known American sportsman

writes that "the northern countries of the Province that border "on the Bay of Chaleur, afford unquestionably the best field for "sportsmen to be found in America, east of the Rocky Mount"ains." In the St. Croix and its splendid chain of lakes, trout abound, and are of a kind peculiar to it, known as "land-locked salmon." Whether in reality a different species, or a degenerated salmon is an open question, but they are very gamey, afford firstrate sport, and are excellent eating. Easy of access, and in a beautiful region of the country, St. Croix is a favourite with tourists. The Province of Quebec affords excellent shooting in many parts; swans, geese, ducks, grouse, woodcock and snipe, moose, cariboo, salmon, and trout are found in abundance in their several localities. The chase of the two former is only pursued during the winter, is hardy and exhilirating, but real, downright hard work, and repays the toil. In the rivers emptying into the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, the lordly salmon is to be found, and the fly, or any other fishing is simply superb. In the River St. Lawrence are localities noted as the resort of wild swans, geese and ducks, snipe and plover, curlew and sea-fowl of every kind, whilst the forests all through the Province teem

with grouse, and the woodland openings and swampy thickets harbour countless woodcock in their season. The large amount of unsettled country in this Province tends to keep up the abundance of game, in which the more settled portions of Canada are deficient.

The Province of Ontario is of such an extent, and so varied in its different districts that what applies to one portion is perhaps the opposite of another. Where settlement has advanced, game has disappeared before it, bnt there are large tracts of country yet remaining clothed with the virgin forest, only visited by the lumberman, in which game of all kinds abounds. The Ottawa district is yet one of these, as well as Nipissing and Muskoka, although the Canadian Pacific Railway and its connecting lines are now opening these regions for settlement, and a few years hence may class them only as amongst the localities that once held game. Moose are met with on the Dumoine and Coulonge rivers, and in the backwoods of the head waters of the Ottawa river, whilst deer are plentiful; duck and grouse shooting is good, with a fair show of woodcock and snipe, and the waters teem with maskinonge, pickerel and bass. In all the rivers tributary to the Ottawa on its north shore, and in the lakes which lie scattered everywhere in its vicinity, trout are plentiful. In central Ontario, in the old Frontenac or Kingston district, there is still good sport to be had among the ducks, grouse and snipe, though not equal to former years. The country in its rear, being rocky or marshy, and unsuited for farming, still abounds with deer, and is a favourite hunting ground, especially along the Opeongo and Hastings section. At the Thousand Islands, a long stretch of the St. Lawrence river, unsurpassed for beauty, and a favourite summer resort, splendid trolling is afforded for bass and maskinonge, to say nothing of fishing for smaller fry. Rice Lake, in the rear of Cobourg, and the neighboring lakes are famous for maskinonge and bass and the innumerable quantity of wild ducks that resort there to feed upon the vast fields of wild rice which abound along those waters. The Holland marsh, between Toronto and Collingwood, is famous for snipe, plover, and duck. In its vicinity, in years gone by, was one of the famous pigeon roosts, or places where the wild pigeons flocked to breed in thousands, whence they made their daily incursions into the surrounding country for food. This has, however, disappeared,

though stragglers occasionally return to the roost, but the mighty flocks of pigeons are a thing of the past. In autumn these birds are to be found scattered in small flocks along the edges of clearings, feeding on grain fields, but their numbers are very limited and yearly becoming less. On Lake Erie, Long Point, and Point Pelee, the St. Clair flats, on the western boundary, and Baptiste Creek, are admirable ducking grounds. Long Point, averaging eight miles in breadth and projecting some twenty miles into the lake, with wide fringes of marsh on both sides, in which wild rice is the chief growth, is controlled by a club of sportsmen, who keep it strictly preserved, and thus have it well stocked with game. Quails have been introduced with grouse on the higher ground, and wild turkeys have, of late years, been introduced, which are thriving on the ridge of land. running the length of the Point, crowned with oak, maple, cherry, elm, and chestnut trees, affording a splendid cover for this noble bird. The only localities in Canada, apart from this, where the wild turkey yet remains, are in the counties of Essex and Kent, and there they are rare. In the early days of settlement, the whole western peninsula of Ontario abounded with the turkey, and the peculiar growth of the woodlands there, comparatively free from underbrush, afforded magnificent sport. Proceeding northwards along Lake Huron, along whose shores curlew, plover, and water-fowl abound, the Manitoulin Islands still afford good shooting and fishing in the waters round them. At the Straits of Mackinaw and Sault St. Marie, splendid fishing can be had, the salmon trout of Lakes Huron and Superior attaining a very large size, whilst all the rivers running into the Georgian Bay and Lake Superior teem with trout and are a favourite resort. Wherever the country is in a

state of nature, the sportsman must rough it and live under canvas, laying in before he starts his necessary camp furniture and provisions. All along Lake Superior, the rivers and streams running into it, especially the Nepigon, are a paradise for trout fishermen, and seem still to possess as many fish as when first discovered. Bears, deer, and an occasional wolf may here be killed, whilst the larder can be kept well supplied with feathered game.

In Manitoba, within a few miles west of Winnipeg, prairie fowl are to be found scattered in all directions, in numbers sufficient to satisfy any sportsman, whilst in autumn, ducks and

waterfowl literally cover every pond and lake. Successive flocks of these keep sport alive. First, in August, the grey duck and merganser make their appearance, succeeded in September by sea-ducks of every description, and, during these months, geese, ducks, and prairie fowls take to the stubble fields, where civilization has reached, and are easily shot. Professor Macoun states that about forty species of game birds are to be seen on the prairie at that season. In Southern Manitoba, the elk is yet found in the neighbourhood of Moose Mountain (wrongly named), for the moose frequents the country further north, lying between Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg, and the country west of Lake Manitoba. In the latter, as well as in the waters of Winnipeg, there are large quantities of whitefish of a very large size and superior quality, and sturgeon of an enormous size are found there, and in the Saskatchewan, and Red rivers. In all the mountain streams of the North-West, which unite to form the South Saskatchewan, there are multitudes of beautiful trout, with salmon-coloured flesh. To the sportsman and the lover of the picturesque there is no place in that portion of Canada that holds out inducements equal to those to be found in the Bow River district. Hunting or fishing, as he turns his gaze to the west, he will see towering up to the skies, peak over peak, the everlasting hills. Should the mountains become tiresome, he has only to turn to the east and look over the swelling prairie, until in the distance the grassy mounds melt into the limitless horizon. The Peace River district is a great resort for bear, both black and grizzly, and there is abundance of the larger game also, elk, moose, and deer. All its lakes teem with fish of the very best quality; geese and ducks during their migrations are in countless thousands, an evidence of which is given in the fact of many thousand geese being killed and preserved for winter use every autumn at the Hudson Bay post, Fort Chippewayan. At the same place, no less than 25,000 whitefish are dried every year for winter use, such as are not required as rations for the being fed to the train dogs. The country here is described as park-like, the undulating plains being dotted with groves of trees.

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Within the Rocky Mountains, besides fishing, hunting the Bighorn and the Rocky Mountain goat will give exciting sport. In spring and summer the males form separate bands of from three

to twenty, and feed along the edges of glaciers, or rest among the castle-like crags of the high summits. Whether quietly feeding or scaling the wild cliffs, their noble forms and the beauty of their movements never fail to strike the beholder with lively admiration. In the months of November and December, all flock together, male and female, old and young. Wary in the extreme, they are most difficult to approach, and it is only by exercising all the stratagems of a hunter that a shot can be fired at them. Man's incursions in the mountains are making these animals more wary every year, and were it not for the inaccessible places they are able to scale, and the giddy heights they fearlessly tread, where men cannot follow, their days would be soon numbered and they would become like the buffalo, an animal of history. In British Columbia, the general aspect of the country naturally impresses the sportman that it is a land abounding with game. The rugged mountain ranges are wooded on their slopes and have in their embrace, lakes, swamps and natural meadows; lakes of all sizes, from the little pond to the body of crystal-like water 100 miles long, often linked by streams, lake after lake turning and twisting to find an outlet to the ocean, generally through one or other of the larger rivers of the province, all abounding with fish. On the low lands and near the coast in the winter the black-tail deer is numerous. This animal frequents the dense coniferous forests of the Pacific coast, delighting in their dark and damp recesses. It is seldom found far from timber or from some thick covert into which it can retreat. To the northward, where it has been but little hunted as yet, it comes down frequently to the salt water to feed on a species of sea weed cast up on the shore, and the Indians kill many, so feeding, by stealing up within shot in their light canoes. Deer are abundant on the islands and among the mountains of this coast, but there are great areas of territory where owing to the thick and tangled character of the undergrowth, stalking is out of the question, because of the impossibility of noiseless progress through the thickets. The elk is abundant on the coast line of the mainland, especially east of the Cascade range. Grouse are found everywhere, both on the mainland and the island, frequenting the thick fern and the pine lands, the willow grouse much resembling the English partridge. Prairie fowl are plentiful in the valleys of the east Cascade region and occasionally the rare game bird, the large sage