74 THE DEER FAMILY 



killed off in the early '6o's by hide-hunters. Farther 

 west they are found in small numbers on both banks of 

 the St. Lawrence, well back from the settlements, until 

 on the north shore we reach Trois Rividres, west of 

 which they become more numerous. 



" The upper Ottawa and Lake Kippewa region has 

 been a grand moose-country in recent years, so far as 

 the size of the antlers is concerned, but the moose 

 are now rapidly pushing farther north. Twenty-five 

 years ago they first appeared, coming from the south, 

 probably from the Muskoka Lake country, into which 

 they may have migrated in turn from the Adirondacks. 

 This northern movement has been going on steadily 

 within the knowledge of the writer. Ten years ago the 

 moose were practically all south and east of Lake Kip- 

 pewa, now they are nearly all north of that lake, and 

 extend nearly, if not quite, to the shores of James Bay. 

 How far to the west of that they have spread we do 

 not know ; but it is probable that they are reoccupy- 

 ing the range lying between the shores of Lake Supe- 

 rior and James Bay, which was long abandoned. 

 Northwest of Lake Superior, throughout Manitoba, 

 and far to the north is a region heavily wooded and 

 studded with lakes, constituting a practically untouched 

 moose-country. 



"No moose, of course, are found in the plain country 

 of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta ; but east, in 

 Keewatin, and to the north, in Athabasca, northern 

 British Columbia, and northwest into Alaska, we have 

 an unbroken range, in which moose are scattered 

 everywhere. They are increasing wherever their 

 ancient foe, the Indian, is dying off, and where white 



