Sport and Life. 



announcement published in the Government organ of the province 

 (Colonist, Oct. 3, 1895) : 



It does not seem to be generally known that the great device in stone 

 recently placed in position over the main entrance to the new parliament 

 buildings is the coat of arms of British Columbia. Hitherto there was no 

 provincial coat of arms, but a crowned lion standing upon an imperial 

 crown was used as a badge, a survival from the Crown colony days. This 

 has been used as the crest of the " achievement," as it is termed in 

 heraldry. 



Above the shield is the crest, a lion standing upon the Imperial crown. 

 Supporting the shield on the left is a stag wapiti, to represent Vancouver 

 Island, and on the right a mountain goat, indicative of the Mainland. The 

 figure of the wapiti was drawn from one in the provincial museum, while 

 the model for the head of the mountain sheep was a magnificent specimen 

 in the possession of Mr A. W. Vowell. 



The best part of the story is to follow, however, for it would, 

 appear that the provincial authorities had compiled their new coat 

 of arms without consulting the Dominion Government, an omission 

 which caused a great rumpus, the unauthorised assumption of the 

 " goat-sheep " arms ending, I believe, in their disallowance by the 

 Federal Government. Throughout the official correspondence to 

 which this incident gave rise, the fact that in the description of the 

 arms the one "supporter" was a mountain goat, while in effigy 

 it was a mountain sheep, remained undiscovered ! 



Concerning the chase of the beast, I have given in my " Camps 

 in the Rockies " such a lengthy account of my personal experiences 

 that I fear wearying the reader by recounting more recent ones.* 



Within the last year or two exploration in the extreme southern 

 and in the extreme northern districts of North America's Pacific 

 littoral appear to have led to the discovery of two new sub-species 

 of Ovis montana. The name of the one is O. nelsoni, so-called in 

 honour of Mr. F. W. Nelson, of the Biological Survey of the 

 U.S.A., who was the first sportsman of scientific training 



* " Camps in the Rockies." New Edition. 55. A. and C. Black, London ; 

 and Ch. Scribner's Sons, New York. 



