GOVERNMENT PROTECTION OF BIRDS 301 
Mountain Lake, in Saskatchewan, were reserved; this area 
contained altogether approximately 2,534 acres. By an 
order of the Minister of the Interior on February 13, 1911, 
all the vacant lands in the vicinity of Ministik Lake, Al- 
berta, and other lakes in that locality, were set aside as 
bird reserves. On May 18, 1915, the Minister of the Interior 
approved of the reservation of all the vacant quarter-sections 
immediately adjoining the following lakes in Saskatchewan 
and Alberta, with a view to the future establishment of 
permanent bird reserves: 
Saskatchewan 
Quill Lakes. Cabri Lake. Redberry Lake. 
Lenore Lake. Bigstick Lake. Johnston Lake. 
Basin Lakes. Crane Lake. Chaplin Lake. 
Bitter Lake. Goose Lake. White Bear Lake. 
Alberta 
Moose Head Lake. *Birch Lake. Lac Ste. Anne. 
Gaskell Lake. *Miquelon Lake. Buffalo Lake. 
Grease Wood Lake. Cooking Lake. *Many Island Lake. 
*Pakowki Lake. *Ministik Lake. *Lac la Biche. 
*Big Hay Lake. Wabamun Lake. 
When these lands were withdrawn from settlement, with 
a view to the permanent reservation of those which were 
suitable for permanent establishment as bird reserves, it 
had not been possible to make a thorough examination of 
their suitability for the purpose for which they were intended. 
But such an examination was made in 1917 and 1918 by 
Doctor R. M. Anderson, zoologist of the Geological Survey 
and a member of the Advisory Board on Wild Life Protec- 
tion, and, as a result of his careful observations on the species 
of birds found frequenting, or likely to frequent, such res- 
* By Order in Council, dated 15th June, 1920, certain lands in the vicinity 
of the lakes marked with an asterisk were set aside as bird sanctuaries. 
An Order in Council, dated 22nd June, 1920, makes regulations for the con- 
trol and management of areas reserved as bird sanctuaries. 
