REVIEW OF PROVINCIAL GAME LEGISLATION 283 
is administered by the Minister of Agriculture, and the pro- 
visions of the act are enforced by a chief game guardian. 
The most necessary amendment that is required in the 
Alberta Game Act is the repeal of those provisions which 
legalize market hunting, and the prohibition of the sale of 
game. The existence in this act of an interpretation clause 
which states that: ‘‘The term ‘market hunter’ shall mean 
any person who hunts or shoots game for gain or profit,” 
and the legalizing of such hunting for monetary gain by the 
purchase of a market hunter’s license for five dollars, are 
not in keeping with the principles of game protection of 
to-day, when all authorities are agreed that the market 
hunter is a menace to what remains of our game resources. 
We would urge the Alberta Government to remove from an 
excellent game act that which tends, more than anything 
else, to defeat the objects of such legislation. 
The number of mountain sheep and goat in Alberta would 
undoubtedly increase if the bag limit were reduced to one 
sheep and one goat, and if the laws were enforced in the 
case of Indians, who have been chiefly responsible for the 
reduction that has taken place in the number of these 
animals, which are a great asset to the province. 
British Columbia.—In 1918 the game-protection service in 
British Columbia was completely reorganized by the estab- 
lishment of a Provincial Game Conservation Board, con- 
sisting of members appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor 
in Council, which board is charged with the administration 
of the Game Act. It has been decided to entrust to the 
provincial police, who will be ex officio game guardians, the 
enforcement of the provisions of the Game Act, and the 
chief of the provincial police is chief game warden. A num- 
ber of the experienced game wardens are retained. 
The game legislation of British Columbia differs from that 
of the rest of the provinces by reason of the fact that the 
open seasons are fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun- 
