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the Chilcotin Indians, but chiefly to the depredations of 

 cougars, which have increased throughout that region; 

 the sheep have been so reduced in numbers as to neces- 

 sitate a close season of five years in the Lillooet region. 

 A few years ago an endeavour was made to introduce a 

 few wapiti into this reserve, but they were Hberated on 

 the Bridge River before the reserve was reached. Both 

 grizzly and black bears are to be found in fair numbers in 

 this reserve, and with adequate protection of the game 

 and the destruction of its predatory enemies the reserve 

 should constitute one of the finest game areas in the prov- 

 ince. 



Strathcona Park. — No more beautiful park exists in Canada 

 than the Strathcona Park, which comprises a triangular area 

 of 829 square miles in the centre of Vancouver Island. It 

 includes magnificent mountains, some of which exceed 7,000 

 feet, flecked with glaciers and valleys of towering Douglas 

 fir. The natural home of wapiti and deer, it was advisedly 

 established as a game reserve in 1914, the Order in Council 

 so creating it declaring that ''no person other than park 

 rangers, deputy game wardens and constables in the execu- 

 tion of their duty shall carry firearms within the limits of 

 the said Park, and no person shall carry traps, shoot, trap 

 or kill any animal or bird within said limits, except such 

 persons as may be hereafter authorized to do so by the 

 Provincial Game Warden for the purpose of killing cougar, 

 wolves and other vermin." 



Mount Rohson Park. — Immediately west of and adjoining 

 the Jasper National Park the British Columbia Government 

 created in 1915 this park as a game reserve. It comprises 

 an area of 640 square miles, and includes Mount Robson, 

 13,100 feet high. A region of high mountains and well- 

 forested valleys, it affords an unusually good reserve for big 

 game and other mammals and birds of that region, which 

 have been described by HoUister and Riley, Anderson, and 



