74 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
now extinct. He says: “J. T. Brondgeest, of Whitewater, 
Man., tells me that he first came to Whitewater in 1879, 
and settled down in the fall of 1880, and that in those days 
there were plenty of antelope about, but the last he saw was 
killed by his father in 1881.” 
To-day the antelope in Canada are confined to those ~ 
areas in the southern portion of Saskatchewan and Alberta 
that have not been devoted to wheat-growing. From the 
inquiries that I have made, I do not think that there are more 
than about 3,000 animals now remaining in those provinces, 
and of this number the greater portion exists in Saskatche- 
wan. In the latter province Mr. F. Bradshaw, the chief 
game guardian, informs me that the existing antelope are 
to be found mainly in the following districts: the Great 
Sand Hills north of Maple Creek and Crane Lake; the Ver- 
milion Hills between Ernfold, on the main line of the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, and the South Saskatchewan 
River; on the east of Lake Chaplin, south of Secretan on 
the main line of the C. P. R.; southeast of Cypress Hills and 
adjoining the Whitemud River; and northwest and south 
of Wood Mountain. The last three localities are in a region 
that is chiefly devoted to cattle-ranching, and it is encour- 
aging to know that, according to Mr. Bradshaw, the own- 
ers of the cattle ranges in which the antelope are to be 
found, particularly in the Pinto Creek section of southern 
Saskatchewan, are doing what they can to protect the an- 
telope found on their ranges, where they mingle with the 
cattle. It is of interest to record that Mr. Reuben Lloyd, » 
of Davidson, Sask., has in a small fifteen-acre private game 
reserve, three male and one female antelope, and in 1916 
the latter gave birth to the two fawns which are shown on 
Plate XIII. 
In southern Alberta a few small herds may be found in 
the rolling hills, and the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains 
that are remote from settled areas. In both provinces the 
