256 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 



30,304 square miles have been reserved for this purpose; 

 that is, a total area exceeding the combined areas of the 

 provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. 

 The following is a tabular statement of these areas: 



Province 



Ptovincial 



Government 



Reserves 



Dominion 



Government 



Reserves 



Total 



New Brunswick . . 



Quebec 



Ontario 



Manitoba 



Saskatchewan. . . 



Alberta 



British Columbia . 



400 sq. miles" 



5,054 " 



4,310 " 



5,160 " 



3,820 " 



176 " 



2,867 " 



25 sq. miles 



7,769 " 

 1,123 " 



400 sq. miles'* 

 5,054 

 4,335 

 5,160 

 3,820 

 7,945 

 3,990 



Total. 



30,704 sq. miles 



* Reserve cancelled in autumn of 1920. 



PROPOSED GAME RESERVE FOR NOVA SCOTIA 



Notwithstanding the existence of a comparatively rich 

 native mammalian fauna in this province, where moose, 

 deer, bear, and the lesser fur-bearing animals continue to 

 exist in spite of the encroachment of settlers and the de- 

 struction of the forests by the operations of the lumbermen 

 and by fires, no steps have been taken up to the present to 

 establish one or more provincial game reserves where ade- 

 quate protection from killing would insure a constant sur- 

 plus of game and fur-bearing animals to supply the adjacent 

 territory and thus prevent species from decreasing to a 

 point bordering extinction. 



In Nova Scotia there are excellent tracts of land that 

 might be set aside as game reserves, and are unsuitable for 

 agriculture. The area best adapted for such a reserve, in 

 my opinion, would be the tract of land in the middle of the 

 western portion of the province which includes the region 

 where the counties of Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queens, 



