14 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1941) 



We hope it will be clear to the sportsman that regulations and restrictions such 

 as are enumerated are the result of changed conditions which must continually be 

 faced. The land is no longer virgin forest; the public domain continues to shrink; and 

 private ownership has rights which must not be abused. Then, too, as the country- 

 develops the population increases, and the numbers of those interested in hunting 

 grows apace. This combination of circumstances does not lend itself to that freedom 

 of movement in pursuit of game which has been our privilege for generations past. 

 Gradually, therefore, we have experienced a tightening up in the interest of the game 

 as well as the hunter. In the case of the regulated townships a compromise has been 

 effected, which, if it receives the co-operation of all those most concerned, will do much 

 to foster the good relations which should exist between farmer and hunter. 



Additional Townships incorporated into the scheme of Regulated Game Preserve 

 areas during the year 1939, are as follows: — 



The Township of Marysburg South, in the County of Prince EMward; 



The Townships of Pickering, Whitby, and Whitby East in the County of Ontario; 



The Townships of Gwillimbury North and Vaughan in the County of York; 



The Townships of Albion and Toronto Gore in the County of Peel; 



The Townships of Esquesing and Nassagaweya in the County of Halton; 



The Township of Puslinch in the County of Wellington; 



The Townships of Middleton and Walsingham North in the County of Norfolk; 



and 



The Townships of Aldborough and Malahide in the County of Elgin. 



WOLF BOUNTIES 



The following is a comparative table of condensed wolf bounty statistics for the 

 current fiscal year and the three years preceding: — 



Period 



For year ending Mar. 31, 1937 

 For year ending Mar. 31, 1938 

 For year ending Mar. 31, 1939 

 For year ending Mar. 31, 1940 



Timber 



1,090 

 1,022 

 1,031 

 1.107 



Brush 



1,197 

 837 

 723 

 614 



Pups 



31 

 30 

 41 

 22 



Total 



2,318 

 1,889 

 1,795 

 1,743 



Bounty & 

 Expenses 



$33,360.63 

 27,474.24 

 25,357.00 

 25,058.12 



Bounty is paid under the authority of the Wolf Bounty Act, R.S.O. 1937, chapter 

 355, which provides for basic rates of bounty, the same as in recent years, viz: — $15.00 

 on an adult and $5.00 on pups under the age of three months. In respect to wolves 

 killed in a County, bounty is paid by the County Treasurer, and forty per cent of 

 such bounty is rebated to the Counties by the Provincial Treasurer. In the northern 

 Districts the total bounty is paid by the Province. 



During the fiscal year under review 1,316 claims were considered, in which 

 1,301 claims were paid. Fifteen claims on animals other than wolves or in cases 

 where insufficient evidence was submitted were rejected. 



Bounty was collected by 1,012 persons, who received $25,925.00 of which $1,020.00 

 was paid by Counties and $24,905.00 by the Province. 



Application for bounty was made on 1,753 wolves, 474 of which were killed by 

 farmers, 443 by trappers, 405 by Indians, and the balance by rangers, guides, etc. It 

 has been ascertained from information supplied with the various applications for 

 bounty that 837 of the wolves were taken by snares, 387 by trap, 347 were shot, 84 

 by methods not reported, and the balance by poison and misadventure. Of the pelts 



