322 A BOOK-LOVER'S HOLIDAYS 



In Eastern Canada, as in the Eastern United 

 States, there has been far less chance than in 

 the West to create huge governmental game re- 

 serves. But there has been a positive increase of 

 the big game during the last two or three decades. 

 This is partly due to the creation and enforce- 

 ment of wise game laws — although here also 

 it must be admitted that in some of the Prov- 

 inces, as in some of the States, the alien sports- 

 man is judged with Rhadamanthine severity, 

 while the home offenders, and even the home In- 

 dians, are but little interfered with. It would be 

 well if in this matter other communities copied 

 the excellent example of Maine and New Bruns- 

 wick. In addition to the game laws, a large 

 part is played in Canadian game preservation 

 by the hunting and fishing clubs. These clubs 

 have policed, and now police many thousands 

 of square miles of wooded wilderness, worth- 

 less for agriculture; and in consequence of this 

 policing the wild creatures of the wilderness 

 have thriven, and in some cases have multi- 

 plied to an extraordinary degree, on these club 

 lands. 



In September, 1915, I visited the Tourilli 

 Club, as the guest of an old friend. Doctor 

 Alexander Lambert, a companion of previous 

 hunting trips in the Louisiana cane-brakes, in 



