of the North Bay District and In the forested country lying south of the 

 French and Mattawa rivers to Midland, Lindsay, Tweed, Perth and Arnprlor. These 

 hunting grounds cover an area of about 27,850 square miles exclusive of 

 Algonquin Park. Deer also occupy the farm lands lying south of this primary 

 deer range and provide a certain amount of hunting on an Irregular basis. There 

 Is approximately 28,000 square miles of this secondary deer range In Erie, 

 Huron, Slmcoe and the southern parts of Lindsay, Tweed and Rldeau Districts. 



The second Important deer area In the province lies west of Lake 

 Superior and covers the south-western corner of Patricia west, western Sioux 

 Lookout, Kenora, Fort Frances and a small part of southern Port Arthur 

 Districts. These hunting grounds cover an area of about 12,600 square miles. 



The highway checking stations Indicate that very few resident hunters 

 live In one of these areas and hunt In the other so that the number of licenses 

 Issued to residents In each area should approximate the number of sportsmen 

 hunting there. License Issuers were asked for the number of each kind of deer 

 license they Issued In 1955- Returns were received from 65^ of the 2,475 

 issuers operating throughout the province. These were used as a basis for 

 computing hunter distribution in the two segments of deer range. Certain 

 biases in the sample received suggest that the number of non-residents in the 

 western deer range may be slightly underestimated while the number of residents 

 and farmers may be slightly overestimated. 



The following table gives the results of this survey. 



1955 



Residents 

 Farmers 

 Non-residents 

 Camps 



Total 



Dog Licenses 



Eastern Deer Range 

 Reported Computed 



Western Deer Range 

 Reported Computed 



60,049 



12,033 



3,635 



481 



76,198 



8,770 



79,153 



15,207 



4,994 



703 



100,057 



11,155 



5,911 

 1,501 

 2,026 

 5 



9,443 



106 



7,997 



1. 



3i 



1,953 

 1,106 



13,063 

 135 



Known 

 Total 

 License 

 Sales 



87,150 



17,160 



8,100 



710 



113,120 



11,290 



The western segment of primary deer range therefore must support an 

 average density of about one hunter per square mile. Distribution, however is 

 not even so that some areas support much higher concentration than this while 



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