104 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
adjacent ranges in British Columbia. The eastern slopes 
of the Rocky Mountains form the easterly limit of the range 
of the grizzly in Canada. Northward it may be found as 
far as the mountains west of the Mackenzie delta. In Al- 
berta they appear to be most abundant in the mountains 
immediately north of Jasper Park. Throughout the Rocky 
and Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia grizzlies may be 
found in varying abundance. In some sections they are by 
no means uncommon; in the Kootenay region, for example, 
they are not difficult to find by strenuous hunting. In 1915, 
I reached the remote and beautifully situated remnant of a 
former prosperous gold-mining settlement bearing the name 
of Trout Lake City (to distinguish it from Trout Lake) a 
few days after three grizzlies, a female and two grown cubs, 
had been killed in front of the small schoolhouse. In the 
Stikine Mountains grizzly bears can be found in fair abun- 
dance. 
Habits.—The grizzly bear has the unenviable reputation 
of being the most dangerous of our big-game animals; and 
this reputation is well deserved, for no animal is more power- 
ful and more tenacious of life when wounded. But this 
reputation was largely gained in the early days of the 
West, when the arrows of the Indians and the primitive 
firearms. of white men served more to annoy than to de- 
stroy him, and when the human aggressor often forfeited. 
his life. His ability to bring to earth, and often drag for 
some distance, a buffalo, steer, or horse naturally inspired 
an appreciation of his immense strength. 
But the grizzly of to-day is a different animal from the 
former monarch of the foot-hills and mountains. In his re- 
treat to the mountains he has accepted not merely the su- 
periority of man himself but of man armed with the modern 
high-powered repeating rifles, the instrument that has put 
fear into the hearts of all members of our wild life that have 
escaped its destructive effect. As Thompson Seton has so 
