ANNUAL REPORT, 1945-46 



Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m., on October 

 26th and 27th, in the following regulated townships: 



Marysburgh South in Prince Edward County; 



Pickering, Whitby and Whitby East in Ontario County; 



Gwillimbury North, King, Markham, Scarborough, Vaughan and Whitchurch 



in York County; 



Albion, Caledon, Chinguacousy, Toronto (part) and Toronto Gore in Peel 



County; 



Esquesing, Nassagawaya, Nelson and Trafalgar in Halton County; 



Puslinch in Wellington County; 



Ancaster, Barton, Beverley, Binbrook, Flamboro East, Flamboro West, Glan- 



ford and Saltfleet in Wentworth County; 



Canboro, Cayuga North, Cayuga South, Dunn, Moulton, Oneida, Rainham, 



Seneca, Sherbrooke and Walpole in Haldimand County; 



Burford, Dumfries South and Onondaga in Brant County; 



Middleton, Walsingham North and Windham in Norfolk County; 



Dereham and Oxford East in Oxford County; 



Bayham, Dorchester South and Dunwich in Elgin County; 



Metcalfe and Westminster (part) in Middlesex County; and 



Plympton in Lambton County. 



Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on October 

 27th, in the Township of Townsend in Norfolk County. 



Hunters participating in the pheasant shoot provided in the townships enumerated 

 above were required to provide themselves with the special licence issued by the 

 respective township authorities in addition to the regular hunting licence demanded by 

 the provisions of the Game and Fisheries Act; and the bag limit provided by the 

 Regulations was three cock birds per day. 



Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on November 

 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Counties of Essex and Kent and the bag limit in this case was 

 also three cock birds per day. 



Shooting was permitted between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. on November 

 1st and 2nd, on Pelee Island. Those hunting pheasants during this open season on Pelee 

 Island were required to secure the special hunting licence issued by the Municipal 

 authorities in addition to the hunting licence issued by the Department. The bag limit 

 was five birds per day, not less than four of which were to be cocks. It was further 

 provided for the protection of these birds that hunting and the discharge of fire arms 

 would be prohibited on Pelee Island during the period from 5.00 p.m., October 24th, to 

 8.00 a.m., November 1st, or during the week previous to this open season for the taking 

 of pheasants. 



QUAIL: — Birds of this species are quite scarce, nor do reports indicate any improve- 

 ment in conditions as they have existed in more recent years. They are limited, with 

 some minor exceptions, to the Counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton. No provision was 

 made for any open season in the fall of 1945. 



DUCKS: — General conditions applicable to wild ducks were not altogether satisfactory 

 and as a result there was some evident diminution of their numbers and decreased 

 prevalence in certain areas throughout the Province in which, based on the experience 

 of previous seasons, it may have been anticipated that more satisfactory hunting 

 conditions might have prevailed. There were, of course, various sections in the southern 

 portion of the Province in which quite favourable conditions for the successful hunting 

 of wild ducks did prevail. Notwithstanding this apparent deterioration, the sport 

 provided by the hunting of this variety of our migratory waterfowl population continued 



