DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1942) 



increase in the herds in many of these counties and more particularly in Grey and 

 Bruce. The regulations which at present exist for the protection of deer and a con- 

 tinuation of the existing co-operation on the part of the general public will undoubt- 

 edly ensure perpetuation and possible improvement of the deer herds which now in- 

 habit Ontario. During the year under review provision was made to have the general 

 open season in the most southerly division extend for a period of nineteen days, as 

 has been the case in previous years, but commencing on the first Monday in November. 

 The hunting of deer was also permitted during the period from November 11th to Nov- 

 ember 16th, inclusive, in the Townships of Amabel. Albemarle, Eastnor, Lindsay and 

 St. Edmund in the Bruce Peninsula, though the use of dogs for such hunting during 

 this open season in these five Townships was not permitted. An open season for deer 

 was provided in that portion of the County of Carleton lying west of the Rideau River 

 conforming with the general season in Southern Ontario and extending from November 

 4th to 19th, inclusive. And, further, a Regulation was provided to prohibit any hunting 

 of deer during 1940 in the Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward. 



MOOSE: — Conditions are such with reference to moose that the hunting of this species 

 is confined to that portion of the Province lying north and west of the French and 

 Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Moose is not too plentiful in any section of this 

 northern portion of the Province, though some improvement is reported from various 

 Districts, particularly in the two areas in the northwest and east in which all hunting 

 of moose was prohibited during the preceding two years and which improvement re- 

 sulted in the provision of an open season in these two areas, extending from October 

 15th to November 25th, inclusive, and which action was taken in accordance with a pop- 

 ular demand therefor. There are but few areas in Southern Ontario in which moose 

 are to be found, and even in these sections their numbers are extremely limited and 

 scarce. Some increase, though very slight, is reported from North Renfrew, North 

 Addington and North Muskoka. 



CARIBOU: — Caribou are extremely scarce throughout the Province. None are to be 

 noticed in the southern portion of the Province, and the same condition applies in the 

 Districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming and Manitoulin. In the remaining territory their 

 numbers are negligible, and little or no improvement was reported from any place. 

 They are protected by a close season throughout the entire year, and the present 

 condition of this particular species demands a continuation of this complete protection 

 for its perpetuation even in limited proportions. 



ELK: — The only elk in Ontario are those which were originally imported from Western 

 Canada several years ago in co-operation with the National Parks Branch of the 

 Federal Department of Mines and Resources, and the subsequent natural increase. 

 Some few specimens are located in Bruce County, on Beausoleil Island in Georgian 

 Bay off the shore of Simcoe County, and on the Peterborough and Petawawa Crown 

 Game Preserves in the Counties of Peterborough and Renfrew respectively, though 

 reports from these areas indicate but little improvement. Additional numbers were 

 placed on Crown Game Preserves in the Districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming, Sudbury, 

 Algoma and Thunder Bay, and in the majority of these instances some increase in 

 their numbers has been noticed. During 1940 a shipment of eight of these animals 

 was completed from the Petawawa Crown Game Preserve to the Nipissing Crown Game 

 Preserve. The hunting of elk is prohibited throughout the entire year. 



BUFFALO: — With the co-operation of the Department of Mines and Resources of 

 Canada, (National Parks Branch) a car-load of buffalo, consisting of sixteen heifers 

 and four bulls, was imported from Alberta and these animals were placed on the 

 Burwash Crown Game Preserve, in the District of Sudbury. While reproduction has 



