RESERVES FOR WILD LIFE IN CANADA 241 
lock, spruce, and cottonwood, furnish scenery of great 
beauty, and at the same time the wild life enjoys absolute 
protection. 
Revelstoke Park.—In 1914 an area of ninety-five square 
rniles north of the city of Revelstoke was set aside as a 
Dominion park. It includes Mount Revelstoke and other 
peaks, and is situated in a region noted for grizzly bear. 
Since its establishment the grouse have increased in abun- 
dance. 
Point Pelee National Park.—Through the efforts of the 
Commission of Conservation and the Advisory Board on 
Wild Life Protection an Order in Council was passed in 
1918 creating Point Pelee, Ontario, as a national park for 
preservation of wild life and particularly the migratory 
birds. In the annual report of the Commission for 1918 this 
park, which comprises an area of about twenty-five square 
miles, is described by me as follows (p. 129): 
‘It is a triangular point of land in Essex county, extend- 
ing for about nine miles into Lake Erie and measuring 
about six miles across the base of the point. The peculiari- 
ties of the flora and fauna and the desirability of such a 
reservation are fully discussed in a memorandum submitted 
to the Commission by Mr. P. A. Taverner, ornithologist of 
the Geological Survey, in 1915 and published in the Sixth 
_ Annual Report of the Commission, pp. 304-307. Not only 
is it the most southerly point of Canada, geographically, 
and in the character of its birds, trees and plants, but it 
constitutes one of the concentration points in the northern 
and southern journeys of our migratory birds. In the 
spring and in the autumn, enormous numbers of birds of 
all species in their migratory journey to and from Canada 
concentrate at this point, and its reservation, therefore, 
would be:an important factor in ensuring the protection of 
our migratory birds. The area includes a marsh several 
square miles in extent which forms a favourite resort and 
