REPORT OF No. 32 



Deputy Wardens. 



The Board desires to repeat and emphasize the recommendation contain- 

 ed in the Report of 1905 to the effect that no deputy wardens or other special 

 local officers tor enforcing the law should be appointed except upon the recom- 

 mendation of the warden for the district or of some person qualified to judge of 

 the qualifications of the applicant for enforcing the game law. 



The Algonquin Park. 



The Board desires to repeat and emphasize the recommendation of the 

 Report of 1 905 to the effect that the Provincial parks, and' especially the Algon- 

 quin Park, ought to be under the control and direction- of the same Department 

 as fish and game. 



The Algonquin National Park was established in 1893, " As a public 

 " park and forest reservation, fish and game preserve, health resort and pleasure 

 K ground for the benefit, advantage and enjoyment of the people of the Province." 

 56 Vic. c. 8, s. 3. 



Ihe Board is aware that the present unsatisfactory condition of the Park 

 is to a considerable extent caused by the fact that timber licenses have been 

 granted covering considerable portions of the Park, some at least of which were 

 granted prior to 1893, and the Board desires to point out that if the owners of 

 these timber licenses are to be recognized as having a perpetual right to the 

 growth of timber, the Park can never be a credit to the Province for the pur- 

 poses for which it was established. The Board therefore ventures to express the 

 hope that some means will be found to terminate existing licenses after affording 

 to the licensees a reasonable time within which to remove timber which is now 

 commercially valuable. 



Apart altogether from the question of outstanding timber licenses., the 

 state of affairs in the Park is most unsatisfactory, and the Board is of opinion 

 that if the objects expressed in the dedication of the Park are to be carried out 

 the Department and officials concerned with the administration of the game and 

 fishery laws ought to have jurisdiction over the Park in order that they may 

 take more efficient steps than have been taken in the past to enforce the law, to 

 increase the existing stock of game of all kinds, to destroy wolves, which infest 

 the Park in large numbers, and to prevent unnecessary injury to the natural 

 beauty of the Park. 



The Board desires to add that the above remarks are not intended as re- 

 flecting upon the superintendent of the Park, who is an efficient officer and does 

 the best he can under the circumstances. 



Amalgamation of Fish and Game Departments. 



The Board also desires to repeat and emphasize the recommendation in 

 the Report of 1905 to the effect that an amalgamation of the Fish and Game 

 Departments is not only desirable but is necessary for the economic and efficient 

 enforcement of the law, and in so doing, and in submitting the draft revised 

 game law herewith, it is desired to call attention to the status of the Board if 

 this recommendation be carried into effect. 



So far as the game law is concerned, the investigations of the past two 

 years have probably resulted in placing before the Legislature all information 

 necessary for the consideration of a law which ought substantially to fulfill the 

 the requirements of the Province for a considerable number of years to come. 



