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whether they are called game-protection associations or 
wild-life-conservation associations is immaterial, so long as 
their objects are those that this volume is endeavouring to 
promote, namely, the conservation of our wild-life resources 
for the benefit of Canadians of to-day and of the future. 
THe ATTITUDE OF THE SPORTSMAN 
The term ‘‘sportsman”’ has a very definite meaning in the 
English language, owing to the fact that the predominant 
characteristic of British sport is ‘‘fair play,’ and any person 
who takes an unfair advantage of opponent or hunted quarry 
is ruled out. It is in such a sense that the word should 
always be used. When applied to the hunting of game the 
word has a special significance in so far as the conservation 
of game is concerned, and for that reason it is appropriate 
that it should be discussed here. 
One of the most noted associations of hunters in the world 
is the Shikar* Club of London, of which His Majesty, King 
George, himself a famous sportsman, is honorary president, 
and which includes in its membership the most noted hunt- 
ers of big game. Its chief object is set forth in the follow- 
ing words: 
To maintain the standard of sportsmanship. It is not squandered 
bullets and big bags which appeal to us. The test is rather in a love of 
forest, mountain and desert; in acquired knowledge of the habits of ani- 
mals; in the strenuous pursuit of a wary and dangerous quarry; in the 
instinct for a well-devised approach to a fair shooting distance; and in 
the patient retrieve of a wounded animal. 
Such should be the ethics of all who hunt game in Canada; 
sportsmen’s organizations should require their members to 
subscribe to this definition of the objects of the hunter. 
In 1908, Doctor W. T. Hornaday, than whom no man has 
done more to promote the conservation of our wild life and 
* Shikar is the Hindustani word for “hunting.” 
