332 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
sale of game has been carried on not by the sportsmen but 
by the pot-hunters, dealers, and those who profit by such 
commerce. But the game resources of the country are for 
the use and enjoyment of all and not for the small per- 
centage by whom the sale of game is demanded. 
There should be no wavering in this matter, nor catering 
to the interests of a few objectors who are unable to appre- 
ciate the wider significance of this aspect of game protection. 
Our wild life is not sufficiently abundant to withstand the 
toll of the market hunter. Is it preferable to have our 
wild life in its natural haunts for the benefit of the nature- 
lover and sportsman, or in the butchers’ and game dealers’ 
shops to gratify, in the majority of cases, the tastes of those 
to whom wild-life protection has no meaning or interest? 
In the United States the disastrous results of the policy 
of permitting the sale of game have been so obvious that, 
with the disappearance of the greater portion of the fur and 
feathered game, it has been practically a question of decid- 
ing whether the remainder should be killed and sold for 
food, or protected for legitimate sport. Consequently, no 
less than thirty-four States, including the best of the game 
States, prohibit the sale of protected game, and it is safe to 
predict that the few States which still permit, in a more or 
less modified way, the sale of certain classes of game, will 
follow the example of the majority within a few years. 
In Canada there is a gradual and strong increase in opinion 
against the sale of game. It is realized that, in the more 
settled parts of Canada, there is no excuse for the sale of 
game. Already the sale of protected game is entirely pro- 
hibited in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. 
In British Columbia the sale of game is prohibited, with the 
exception of moose, which may be sold during part of the 
open season in the northern districts of Atlin, Prince George, 
Omineca, and Cariboo, and bear, which may be sold 
throughout the province. In Nova Scotia moose is the 
