xii PREFACE 



Nova Scotia : its Resources, and Opportunities, issued by the 

 authority of the Nova Scotia Government. In some instances I 

 am under obligation to General Hardy's book, Forest Life in Acadie, 

 published by Messrs Chapman and Hall in 1869, and in others to 

 Mr John J. Rowan's work entitled The Emigrant and Sportsman 

 in Canada, published by Mr Edward Stanford in 1876 ; a great 

 deal of the descriptive matter in these two interesting works is still 

 true of the conditions as existing to-day. Some accounts of sport 

 in Newfoundland have been introduced as that inviting field for 

 the sportsman is so very easily accessible from Halifax by steamship 

 and rail. To the late J. Bernard Gilpin, M.D., M.R.C.S., I owe 

 some facts concerning the natural history of Sable Island. 



A. P. S. 



