DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 (1943) 



protection which has been provided has resulted in a considerable increase in the num- 

 bers of these animals which now inhabit many of these areas, though this improve- 

 ment has not been sufficiently extensive to warrant the provision of general regulations 

 for the hunting of deer in the^e areas. However, conditions were such in the Counties 

 of Bruce and Carleton that special regulations were promulgated in connection with 

 the hunting of deer therein, details of which are as follows: — 



(a) An open season in the County of Bruce, from November 10th to November 

 18th, 1941, both days inclusive, though the use of dogs during this hunting season 

 was prohibited. 



(b) An open season in that part of the County of Carleton lying west of the 

 Rideau River, from November 3rd to November 18th, 1941, both days inclusive. 

 The general regulations which govern the hunting of deer were in effect. 



In Division (D), Southern Ontario, a special regulation establishing the 

 period of the open season for deer provided that such open season would extend 

 from November 3rd to November 18th, 1941, both days inclusive. 



In accordance with local recommendations received in the Department it was 

 further provided that it would be unlawful for any person to hunt deer in the 

 Counties of Durham, Northumberland and Prince Edward and in the Township 

 of Cambridge, in the County of Russell, at any time during the year 1941, thus 

 eliminating the open season in these areas which is established by the general 

 provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act. 



MOOSE: — Generally speaking this species of game animal is not plentiful anywhere 

 in this Province, though there are some areas in which rather favourable conditions 

 do prevail. An entire closed season on these animals has been effective for the past 

 several years in that portion of Ontario lying south of the French and Mattawa 

 Rivers and Lake Nipissing, and this prolonged period of entire protection has not re- 

 sulted in any general increase in the numbers of moose which exist in this part of the 

 Province, though some slight improvement is reported from the County of Renfrew 

 and the District of Muskoka. Advice from various northern Ontario sections indicates 

 conditions practically similar to those which have existed there in more recent years, 

 with slight improvement in scattered areas. Hunting was permitted during the usual 

 open seasons in accordance with provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act, while a 

 restricted period of open season, extending from October 15th to October 31st, 1941, 

 was provided in that area in northwestern Ontario, west of the Superior Junction-Fort 

 William Branch of the Canadian National Railway, including the district of Rainy River 

 and portions of the districts of Kenora and Thunder Bay, and in that area in the south- 

 eastern part of northern Ontario, lying north of North Bay and east of Sudbury, and in- 

 cluding portions of the districts of Nipissing, Temiskaming and Sudbury. 



CARIBOU: — But very few specimens of this variety of game animal exist in Ontario 

 at this time. Naturally they are reported only from locations in northern Ontario and in 

 all instances the information received is to the effect that they are very scarce. They 

 are probably most prevalent, though not plentiful even there, on the larger islands in 

 Lake Superior located along the shore fronting the district of Thunder Bay. Existing 

 conditions demand a continuation of the protection of a closed season throughout the 

 entire year, and which has now prevailed for quite a period of years, if this species is to 

 have an opportunity to maintain itself even in its present limited proportions. 



ELK: — The elk which are to be found in Ontario at the present time are those which 

 were originally imported by this Department from Western Canada with the co-opera- 

 tion of the National Parks Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources of Canada, 

 and their subsequent off-spring. During the summer of 1941 six of these animals, three 



