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in default of payment to imprisonment for not less than one month and not more than 

 three, with or without hard labour. 



It is not claimed that the park is free of trespassers. Unfortunately, as we 

 are jnv:irc, there are and have been violations, but this much at least can be asserted, 

 viz., that the creation of the park has been in a great measure a success, that it has 

 benefited the majority, afforded employment to a large number of people, and will 

 continue to do so, whilst at the same time none can dispute the fact that the fish and 

 game have materially increased, the forests have had a fair measure of protection 

 afforded them, and their value has rather increased than otherwise. 



in view of the permanently increased value of timber and the ever-swelling ranks 

 of sportsmen, it would appear prudent and judicious to foster both, and this can be 

 done easily and inexpensively by the erection of parks. The direct revenue therefrom 

 may not appear sufficient perhaps to justify such procedure, unless the parks were 

 credited with the ground rent, when the revenue would at once be enough to cover the 

 cost of their maintenance. But even leaving the above item out, the indirect benefit 

 derived from judicious cutting, protection from fire, and the immense amount of 

 money left in the country by tourists is more than sufficient to warrant any Govern- 

 ment in extending the system to all sections unfit for profitable agriculture, and would 

 ensure the question of water supply, to say nothing of the perpetuating of all varieties 

 of fish and game indigenous to the country. 



Professor ROTH. Mr. Chairman, I cannot resist the temptation, to express my 

 appreciation of this last paper. I would rather have missed anything e'.se in the whole 

 proceedings. We have stuck to timber, and right here I believe it true to the nature 

 of our profession that the man of game and fish has as much a right in the forest as 

 the man of the log. I believe that it is an important part of our forestry, and especially 

 so in your territory here where you have immense expanses in fact where you have 

 the grandest game and fish parks on earth. I believe that right here you have one 

 of the finest beginnings that can possibly be imagined, and I want especially to thanV 

 this gentleman for the paper. 



Mr. WHITE. I may say, Mr. Chairman, that I have been very much interested 

 in hearing about the Laurentides Park. We in Ontario have known that the Govern- 

 ment of Quebec had set a^ide such a park, but we did not know the rules and regulations 

 and laws that affect it. Now, I find that some of the regulations are different from 

 the regulations that we have in Ontario in what we call the Algonquin National Park. 

 It is, like this park, on the heads of several important rivers. The territory is under 

 license, just as it is in Quebec, but part of it for pine only, the rest for all kinds of 

 timber. But we exclude hunters from that park absolutely. We do not allow any 

 man to carry a gun in the park. When we took it over game was very 

 scarce. However, under our protection the game has multiplied and the 

 park is now becoming full of moose, red deer and "beaver, indeed all kinds of fur- 

 bearing animals. These have multiplied until they have spread into other portions 

 of the country. We give permission to fish and there have been no serious results from 

 that, but so far we have not seen fit to allow anyone to go into that country with a gun 

 because you know what the temptation is sometimes when moose or a deer is in front 

 of a person, and people might be overcome by temptation and violate the law. I may 

 say further, Mr. Roth, we have another park upon the shore of Lake Erie known as 

 the Rondeau Park, and.it is there as a sort of recreation ground for the people of that 

 vicinity. Some ancient forest is to be found on that park and the ranger now assures 



