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lock, spruce, and cottonwood, furnish scenery of great 

 beauty, and at the same tune the wild life enjoys absolute 

 protection. 



Revelstoke Park. — In 1914 an area of ninety-five square 

 miles north of the city of Revelstoke was set aside as a 

 Dominion park. It includes Mount Revelstoke and other 

 peaks, and is situated in a region noted for grizzly bear. 

 Since its establishment the grouse have increased in abun- 

 dance. 



Point Pelee National Park. — Through the efforts of the 

 Commission of Conservation and the Advisory Board on 

 Wild Life Protection an Order in Council was passed in 

 1918 creating Point Pelee, Ontario, as a national park for 

 preservation of wild life and particularly the migratory 

 birds. In the annual report of the Commission for 1918 this 

 park, which comprises an area of about twenty-five square 

 miles, is described by me as follows (p. 129) : 



"It is a triangular point of land in Essex county, extend- 

 ing for about nine miles into Lake Erie and measuring 

 about six miles across the base of the point. The peculiari- 

 ties of the flora and fauna and the desirability of such a 

 reservation are fully discussed in a memorandum submitted 

 to the Commission by Mr. P. A. Taverner, ornithologist of 

 the Geological Survey, in 1915 and published in the Sixth 

 Amiual Report of the Commission, pp. 304-307. Not only 

 is it the most southerly point of Canada, geographically, 

 and in the character of its birds, trees and plants, but it 

 constitutes one of the concentration points in the northern 

 and southern journeys of our migratory birds. In the 

 spring and in the autumn, enormous numbers of birds of 

 all species in their migratory journey to and from Canada 

 concentrate at this point, and its reservation, therefore, 

 would be an important factor in ensuring the protection of 

 our migratory birds. The area includes a marsh several 

 square miles in extent which forms a favourite resort and 



