REINDEER AND MUSK-OX 



APPENDIX No. IX 



MEMORANDUM ON BARREN LAND CARIBOU AND MUSK-OX 



Prepared by Dr. R. M. Anderson, Chief of the Sonihern Party, Canadian Arctic 



Expedition, 1913-1916, from information secured from Captain Joseph 



P. Bernard, Commanding the Schooner ''Teddy Bear," recently 



returned from four years voyage into Coronation Gulf 



and Victoria Island Region. 



Ottawa, Canada, January 24, 1921. 



Dear Sirs, — I am enclosing a memorandum on Barren Ground caribou 

 and musk-ox, which Mr. Harkin asked me to prepare from the notes I got by 

 interviewing Captain Joseph F. Bernard, of Tignish, P.E.I., when he was in 

 Ottawa last month, after a four years' voyage into the Coronation gulf and 

 Victoria island region in his schooner Teddy Bear. Captain Bernard is a trust- 

 worthy and observant citizen, and his information is of great interest on account 

 of showing the very rapid changes which are taking place in the habits of the 

 natives and the consequent destruction of game in the region which he visited 

 very recently. As an illustration, he told me that there were still a good many 

 bows and arrows in use in Coronation gulf in 1917, but in 1919 there were only 

 two or three bows in use, so far as he could find out. The natives now practically 

 all have high-power rifles, and are using them freely. 



Yours sincerely, 



(Sgd.) R. M. ANDERSON. 



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