16 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 



A condensed summary of the material thus seized is submitted herewith: — 



Live animals in 14 cases 



Birds, game animals and meat in 177 cases 



Fire-arms and ammunition in 491 cases 



Fish in 241 cases 



Fishing equipment in 309 cases 



Angling equipment in 71 cases 



Pelts and hides in 197 cases 



Traps and equipment in 148 cases 



Water craft in 35 cases 



Motor vehicles in 11 cases 



Poison in 3 cases 



Lights (artificial) in 32 cases 



Spears .in 47 cases 



Miscellaneous articles in 50 cases 



Duplicate entries on one report of seizure, such as fire-arms and game; angling 

 equipment and fish; trapping equipment and pelts, and other combinations of a 

 similar nature account for the apparent discrepancy in the total shown by the above 

 table, viz: — 1826, as compared with the actual seizure reports which number 1448. 



Departmental records contain evidence of the fact that during the year under 

 review some 1,154 cases were prosecuted through the courts, and convictions were 

 registered in 1,092 of these cases, the charges in the remaining 62 cases being dis- 

 missed by the presiding Magistrates. It will be of interest to set forth the following 

 details concerning the responsibility for the prosecutions in which convictions were 

 registered, viz: — Game and Fisheries Overseers in 929 cases, Deputy Game Wardens 

 in 18 cases. Provincial Police Officers in 76 cases, while co-operative action as among 

 overseers, deputy game wardens and police was responsible in 69 cases. 



While each officer is required to be impartial and efficient in the carrying out 

 of his duties he is also required to use common sense and courtesy in his treatment 

 of the public. In this respect we would like to express a word of appreciation by 

 saying that we believe those virtues are exemplified by the average field officer in 

 the discharge of his duties. On their behalf and as proof of this, we would like 

 to quote part of a letter recently received from one of our non-resident hunters. 

 It is but one of many the Department receives from time to time acknowledging the 

 courtesy of the average Game and Fisheries Officer. 



The letter is dated November 25th, 1936, and is in part as follows: 



"I cannot refrain from referring to the marked degree of courtesy experienced 

 when one has anything to do with Canadian Officials. I would even go so far as to 

 say that when one gets on this side of the Peace Bridge the change is quite notice- 

 able. Some distance north of Toronto we were held up by two of your officers 

 and our game record and licenses examined, as was proper, but all of it was done 

 with such perfect courtesy that the experience, so far from being unpleasant, strongly 

 inclined the hunter to co-operate to the fullest possible extent. The fact that a day 

 before a group of American sportsmen had been caught in a bunch of lies, without 

 sufficient hunting licenses, and had parts of one deer sewed inside the carcass of 

 another, indicated that underneath the courtesy there was no lack of efficiency. 



"It is no wonder that 99 percent of American sportsmen who go to Canada 

 feel about it as I do. Out of many years of this sort of thing has come my associ- 

 ation with Rod and Gun and my sense of gratitude has urged me to write for it 

 without compensation as some small return for the good times and treatment I 

 have experienced in Canada." 



