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lakes dividing Canada from the United States, and it is with 

 great difficulty that in those waters we can protect our fish. 

 The Americans having no laws, they do not see why we should 

 have laws in Canada. I think, therefore, that, so far as Prof. 

 Milner's ideas on this point are concerned, they must fall to the 

 ground when he states that Canada is better able to protect its 

 fisheries than the United States. 



With regard to the success that has attended the fish culture 

 in Canada, I will make a few remarks. In 1865 I commenced, 

 as an amateur, in my own dwelling-house, in rearing a few fish. 

 In 1866-67 the Government of the country heard of what I was 

 doing in a private way. I sought, if possible, at that time to 

 make it a private undertaking, and endeavored to obtain a 

 certain portion of the lake in front of where I lived, and asked 

 that it should be given to myself, in order that if I produced fish 

 there that did not then exist, I should have the benefit of it 

 afterwards. The Government thought that that woidd be 

 creating a monopoly, and that if there was anything to be made 

 out of fish culture they had better take hold of it themselves, 

 and they did so. So that from that small beginning of mine, in 

 1865, we have extended over the Dominion of Canada these 

 large fish-breeding establishments, in which there are at present 

 about six millions of salmon almost ready to hatch out, and 

 nine millions of whitefish also just ready to hatch out. In these 

 few years the strides of Canada in the direction of fish culture 

 have been very great. Originating from the planting of a few 

 eggs in the parlor of my own dwelling-house, it has extended 

 through all the Provinces except those on the Pacific coast. 



The buildings that we are now putting up are of a very 

 permanent nature. The Government has taken the view that 

 what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and that the 

 buildings should be made in as satisfactory a manner as 



