SCHEDULE 6 — The counties of Carleton, Dundas, Durham, Glengarry, 

 Grenville, Leeds, Northumberland, Prescott, Prince Edward, Russell and Stormont. 



— Those parts of the counties of Frontenac, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, 

 Peterborough and Victoria not included in paragraph 4 of schedule 5. 



— That part of the County of Lanark not included in paragraph 5 of 

 schedule 5. 



SCHEDULE 7 — The counties of Dufferin, Ontario, Peel, Simcoe and York. 



SCHEDULE 8 — The counties of Brant, Bruce, Grey, Halton, Huron, 

 Oxford, Perth, Waterloo, Wellington and Wentworth. 



SCHEDULE 9 — The counties of Elgin, Essex, Haldimand, Kent, Lambton, 

 Lincoln, Middlesex, Norfolk and Welland. 



GAME MANAGEMENT, 1962 

 The 1962 Deer Hunt In Ontario 



The whitetailed deer is unquestionably the most important big game animal 

 in North America. One or more of the whitetail's thirty subspecies is found in 

 almost every state and province; while civilization has pushed other big game 

 species into wilderness beyond the reach of many hunters, the whitetail thrives 

 within a few miles of metropolitan areas. Deer are Mr. Average Hunter's big 

 game and in 1961 almost 112,000 licences were sold to Ontario's deer hunters. 

 This compares with small game licence sales of just over 350,000 and since it 

 is likely that many hunters held both types of licences, it is evident that a large 

 proportion of Ontario's hunters pursue the whitetail. 



The Province's annual deer harvest is estimated at 30,000 animals, about 

 one deer for every four hunters. Although this is a large quantity of venison, it 

 is only a very small proportion of the annual harvest taken by the over six million 

 deer hunters in the United States and Canada. Ontario is, in fact, at the northern 

 edge of the continent's deer range and much of northern Ontario does not support 

 huntable densities of deer. 



Weather, in several ways, plays a very important role in determining whether 

 the hunter brings home his venison in the fall. Severe winter conditions reduce 

 deer populations drastically, especially along the northern "fringe" of Ontario's 

 range. At the same time, weather during the hunting season determines in large 

 part whether the hunter is given an opportunity to harvest the deer which are 

 available. 



Weather of both types mentioned above greatly influenced results of the 

 1962 deer hunt and because conditions vary so widely across the province, each 

 District will be treated in turn. 



Sioux Lookout, Kenora and Fort Frances Districts, in the Western Region, 

 again enjoyed the best deer hunting the province had to offer, with success rates 

 for these Districts at 40.5, 52.3 and 49.6% respectively. (See Table 1) Mild 

 winters for the past few years have resulted in bumper crops of deer in this region, 



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