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Only one new Crown Game Preserve was established during 1941-42, and this was 

 the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Sanctuary. The area included therein is located in the 

 district of Cochrane lying west of the Ontario-Quebec interprovincial boundary, east 

 of the Moose and the North French Rivers, south of the southern shore of James Bay, 

 and north of the northern boundaries of the townships of Inglis, Swartman, McQuibban, 

 Tweed and Blakelock and the easterly extension thereof to the Ontario-Quebec inter- 

 provincial boundary. The regulation which provided for the establishment of this 

 Sanctuary was adopted at the request of the Department of Mines and Resources for 

 Canada, primarily to enable the Department of Game and Fisheries with the co-operation 

 of the Federal Department of Mines and Resources to re-stock the area with beaver 

 during the years specified, control the annual take of beaver therein, if and when such 

 trapping is permitted, and provided a restricted and controlled trapping ground for the 

 benefit of Indian residents in Ontario. The regulation further provides for the trapping 

 in this area by resident Indians only of fur-bearing animals other than beaver. This is 

 the second such Sanctuary now established. 



WOLF BOUNTIES 



The following is a comparative statement showing annual wolf bounty statistics 

 and payments for a period of five years ending with the 1941-42 fiscal period: — 



The basic rate of bounty on adult wolves, viz: — $25.00, which was provided by 

 regulation dated March 1st, 1941, was in effect in 1941-42, while the bounty on wolf 

 pups (animals under the age of three months) remained at $5.00. 



This increased bounty was probably the principal incentive to the intensified 

 hunting and trapping of these animals which resulted in an extremely large increase 

 in the number of wolves killed and the subsequent applications for the payment of 

 bounty. It will be observed upon reference to the foregoing comparative table that 

 bounty was paid on a total of 1,813 wolves, which represented an increase of 58 per cent 

 over the number on which bounty was paid in the preceding fiscal year. It will also 

 be noted that this is the largest number of wolves on which bounty has been paid since 

 the year ending March 31st, 1938. 



During the year 1941-42 the Department received 1,350 claims for the payment of 

 bounty on a total of 1,834 wolves, twelve of which claims in respect of seventeen pelts 

 were refused for various reasons. 



The following is a summary showing in detail the sources of origin and the 

 variety of pelts on which application for bounty was made: — 



