268 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 



Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Later in the same month the subject was discussed in 

 Ottawa at the annual meeting of the Commission of Con- 

 servation, and the following resolution was passed by the 

 commission: 



Resolved, That the provincial governments of Canada be urged to 

 solicit the good offices of the Dominion Government in obtaining the 

 negotiation of a convention for a treaty between Great Britain and the 

 United States, for the purpose of securing more effective protection for 

 the birds which pass from one country to another. 



The Dominion Parks Branch of the Department of the 

 Interior also interested itself in furthering this measure. 



In the following month (February, 1914) the United States 

 Government submitted to the Canadian Government for 

 its consideration the draft of a convention between Great 

 Britain and the United States for the protection of migra- 

 tory birds in the United States and Canada. The draft of 

 the proposed convention was submitted to the several pro- 

 vincial governments for their views, as the question was 

 of provincial concern. The provincial governments unani- 

 mously approved of the principle of the convention. As 

 objections that were not considered to be insuperable were 

 raised by only two of the provinces, and, as the Departments 

 of Agriculture and of the Interior, and the Commission of 

 Conservation strongly concurred in the opinion that the 

 protection of these birds, as provided under the proposed 

 convention, particularly on economic grounds, was most 

 desirable, an Order in Council was passed on May 31, 1915, 

 stating that the Canadian Government was favourably dis- 

 posed to the conclusion of the proposed treaty. With a 

 view to securing the settlement of oiu* objections to certain 

 provisions of the treaty further negotiations were under- 

 taken in Washington early in 1916, as a result of which all 

 the objections raised were completely met, with the excep- 



