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the Chilcotin Indians, but chiefly to the depredations of 
cougars, which have increased throughout that region; 
the sheep have been so reduced in numbers as to neces- 
sitate a close season of five years in the Lillooet region. 
A few years ago an endeavour was made to introduce a 
few wapiti into this reserve, but they were liberated on 
the Bridge River before the reserve was reached. Both 
grizzly and black bears are to be found in fair numbers in 
this reserve, and with adequate protection of the game 
and the destruction of its predatory enemies the reserve 
should constitute one of the finest game areas in the prov- 
ince. 
Strathcona Park.—No more beautiful park exists in Canada 
than the Strathcona Park, which comprises a triangular area 
of 829 square miles in the centre of Vancouver Island. It 
includes magnificent mountains, some of which exceed 7,000 
feet, flecked with glaciers and valleys of towering Douglas 
fir. The natural home of wapiti and deer, it was advisedly 
established as a game reserve in 1914, the Order in Council 
so creating it declaring that ‘‘no person other than park 
rangers, deputy game wardens and constables in the execu- 
tion of their duty shall carry firearms within the limits of 
the said Park, and no person shall carry traps, shoot, trap 
or kill any animal or bird within said limits, except such 
persons as may be hereafter authorized to do so by the 
Provincial Game Warden for the purpose of killing cougar, 
wolves and other vermin.” 
Mount Robson Park.—Immediately west of and adjoining 
the Jasper National Park the British Columbia Government 
created in 1915 this park as a game reserve. It comprises 
an area of 640 square miles, and includes Mount Robson, 
13,100 feet high. A region of high mountains and well- 
forested valleys, it affords an unusually good reserve for big 
game and other mammals and birds of that region, which 
have been described by Hollister and Riley, Anderson, and 
