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and he may be said to have given its deserved repute to the 

 old outside fisheries service. He entered on his official work 

 in 1879, and for 35 years had charge of the most difficult in- 

 spector's district in the Dominion, namely, the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence and Labrador area. He combined patrol duty with 

 a Government physician's work, and the remote fishing com- 

 munities of Laborador, north Gaspe, and the Magdalen Is- 

 lands, looked upon the gulf inspector as a benefactor, as much 

 as an arm of the law. He was one of the ablest and most 

 esteemed officers the Canadian Government Service ever pos- 

 sessed. I'With Dr. Richard Rathbun, of Washington, Dr. 

 Wakeham made a complete survey of the fisheries of the 

 boundary waters from the Bay of Fundy to Puget Sound 

 during the years 1893-1896, under the International Fisheries 

 Convention, and the results were a code of joint regulations, 

 and an exceedingly valuable detailed report. I had the honor 

 of acting as expert adviser with Dr. Wakeham on this inter- 

 national survey, and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, U. S. Commissioner 

 of Fisheries, also joined the Commissioners for a time as 

 expert adviser for the United States. It is worthy of men- 

 tion that Dr. Wakeham had command of the Diana on the 

 well-known Hudson Bay cruise in 1897, and presented a most 

 valuable report on the fisheries, etc., in peri- Arctic waters. 



Recent Official Work — Codes of Regulations. — 

 Of my own twenty-eight years' work, as Commissioner of 

 Fisheries for Canada, and of the work of more recently ap- 

 pointed officers I cannot speak, but it fell to me to frame 

 the early drafts of the fishery regulations for British Co- 

 lumbia, to draw up a more complete set of lobster fishery 

 regulations, as well as oyster regulations, and new codes of 

 Manitoba, and Northwest Territory laws, all of which werC; 

 in the main, embodied in regulations passed by the Govern- 

 ment at Ottawa, and most of which were carried out for a 

 long period, until amended in recent years by new codes. The 

 lobster regulations framed by me remained in force with little 

 activities, and I have omitted all reference to a most important 



