or molestation of these birds find animals. A large number 

 of private preserves are also being conducted under license, 

 and are meeting with considerable success, geese, ducks, 

 prairie chickens and partridge as well as deer multiplying 

 rapidly under such protection. In the province of Sas- 

 katchewan alone, there are nine government game pre- 

 serves with a total of 3,820 square miles or 2,448,000 acres 

 of land. 



The game of the prairies is of a twofold value to the 

 provinces, supplementing the larder of the farmers and 

 attracting a certain traffic among sportsmen. Any farmer 

 can in season, without trouble, secure the limit of game 

 birds the law permits him, whilst, with threshing complete 

 and the summer's work off his hands, he regards it as both 

 a holiday and a wise provision for the winter to secure a 

 moose in his province's northern woods. The latter is 

 evident from the tact that last year seventy-five per cent 

 of moose licenses in the province of Saskatchewan were 

 taken out by farmers. 



Many Sportsmen from United States 



The West, too has its sportsmen who come each year 

 from the United States and other countries to take toll 

 of prairie game. They are not as numerous as in certain 

 other sections of Canada, but would doubtless be greater 

 were more hunters apprised of the excellent sport the 

 prairies offer. Even in the more settled agricultural dis- 

 tricts there is excellent grouse and duck shooting. The 

 northern lakes offer unequalled opportunities for duck 

 shooting, whilst the possibilities of moose, once the hunter 

 has left the prairie behind for the park and timber lands, 

 are equal to any other section. 



Last year in the province of Alberta there were 5,209 

 licensed duck hunters, and in this regard it must be stated 

 that it is not necessary for a farmer to take out a license 

 to shoot in his own district. Big game hunters in the 

 province killed 1,018 moose, 68 cariboo, 10 mountain 

 sheep, 47 mountain goat, and 1,120 deer. In the province 

 of Saskatchewan, 25,000 licenses ware issued to duck 

 hunters and there are usually about 3,000 big game hunting 

 licenses taken out. In an average year in Saskatchewan 

 1,280 moose were killed, 890 deer and 80 cariboo. Half a 

 million dollars is spent annually in the province in big 

 game hunting. Manitoba reached a new record last year 

 when it issued 10,550 game bird shooting licenses, whilst 

 its big game licenses usually average about 5,000. 



The Open Season 



In Alberta the open season for moose and deer is from 

 November 1st to December 14th; for prairie chicken and 

 partridge, October 15th to October 31st; for ducks and 

 geese, September 1st to December 15th. In Saskatchewan, 

 open season for moose and deer, November 15th to 

 December 14th; prairie chicken and partridge, October 

 1st to October 31st; ducks and geese, September 15th to 

 December 31st. In Manitoba, moose and deer, December 

 1st to December 10th; prairie chicken and partridge, 

 October 15th to October 22nd; ducks and gease, September 

 15th to November 30th . 



The Prairie Provinces have created for themselves 

 such a renown agriculturally that they are frequently 

 overlooked in respect to their many other valuable assets. 

 Game there is a real resource. It provides at once sport 

 and a valuable source of food supply to the settler and 

 established farmer. It brings to it sportsmen and hunters 

 who would come for no other reason, but who in search of 

 sport must see, and carry away with them the knowledge 

 of its varied attraction and opportunity. 



Acroas Canada The Border Cities 



What are collectively known as the Border 

 Cities of Canada comprise the centres of Windsor, 

 Ford, Walkerville, Sandwich, and Objibway, in 

 Ontario. As their familiar name suggests, they 

 are situated on the international border between 



Canada and the United States, and this location 

 has given them a peculiar imprint and imparted 

 certain characteristics which set them distinc- 

 tively apart in Canadian affairs. As is inevitable, 

 the close proximity of a great and more populous 

 country affects them in many ways, socially and 

 commercially. There is a constant interchange 

 of people travelling back and forth across the 

 imaginary border, whilst business interests have 

 become to an extent allied and interwoven. 

 More particularly has the city of Detroit, 

 situated directly opposite the area occupied by 

 the Canadian cities, had its effect in moulding 

 the career and determining the destiny of the 

 Dominion industrial centre. 



The five cities have sprung up on the Detroit 

 Riverside, directly opposite the American city, 

 and only eight hundred yards from it. So 

 closely adjoining are they that it is impossible 

 for the observer to determine where the confines 

 of one terminate and the other begins, and in 

 reality they combine to form one centre of great 

 and ever increasing industrial activity. Their 

 location is one of great economic strategy. 

 Served by five trunk roads running into both 

 countries, they are on the route of all Canadian 

 steamers on the Great Lakes, whilst they are 

 linked up with other Ontario centres by electric 

 lines. 



An Increasing Industrial Centre 



The Border Cities form one of the most 

 rapidly increasing industrial areas of Canada, 

 a movement which had its stimulus in the realiz- 

 ation on the part of United States manufactur- 

 ers of the wisdom of locating bianch plants in 

 Canada to engage in the Canadian domestic 

 and export trade. Its situation made this 

 inevitable. The proximity of Detroit determined 

 what line of industry should be adopted and 

 followed. The Border Cities are the centre of 

 the Canadian automobile business. There are 

 in the area about 250 operating industries, 

 mainly of United States capital, and 37 automo- 

 bile plants manufactuiing automobiles, trucks, 

 and accessories. In the year 1920, 36 new 

 industries from the United States settled there 

 and a larger number in 1921. Development, 

 so far, in 1922 has been substantial, and there is 

 no doubt as to ihe important place this area oc- 

 cupies in Canadian industrial life and the more 

 important one it will fill in the future. 



The total population of the area of the 

 Border Cities is approximately 60,000, of which 

 Windsor accounts for two-thirds. With the 

 automobile industry ranking third among the 

 manufacturing activities of the province of 

 Ontario, Windsor is naturally an impoitant 

 centre. It has in all 162 industrial establish- 

 ments, employing 2,554 persons, capitalized at 

 $20,244,130 and accounting for an annual 

 production of $11,664,975. Among other impor- 

 tant industries are salt and chemical, bridge 



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