256 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
30,304 square miles have been reserved for this purpose; 
that is, a total area exceeding the combined areas of the 
provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. 
The following is a tabular statement of these areas: 
Provincial Dominion 
Province Government Government 
Reserves Reserves 
400 sq. miles* 
‘ “ce 
‘ 
e 25 sq. miles 
7,769 “ 
* Reserve cancelled in autumn of 1920. 
PROPOSED GAME RESERVE FOR NOVA SCOTIA 
Notwithstanding the existence of a comparatively rich 
native mammalian fauna in this province, where moose, 
deer, bear, and the lesser fur-bearing animals continue to 
exist in spite of the encroachment of settlers and the de- 
struction of the forests by the operations of the lumbermen 
and by fires, no steps have been taken up to the present to 
establish one or more provincial game reserves where ade- 
quate protection from killing would insure a constant sur- 
plus of game and fur-bearing animals to supply the adjacent 
territory and thus prevent species from decreasing to a 
point bordering extinction. 
In Nova Scotia there are excellent tracts of land that 
might be set aside as game reserves, and are unsuitable for 
agriculture. The area best adapted for such a reserve, in 
my opinion, would be the tract of land in the middle of the 
western portion of the province which includes the region 
where the counties of Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queens, 
