REVIEW OF PROVINCIAL GAME LEGISLATION 283 



is administered by the Minister of Agriculture, and the pro- 

 visions of the act are enforced by a chief game guardian. 



The most necessary amendment that is required in the 

 Alberta Game Act is the repeal of those provisions which 

 legalize market hunting, and the prohibition of the sale of 

 game. The existence in this act of an interpretation clause 

 which states that: ''The term 'market hunter' shall mean 

 any person who hunts or shoots game for gain or profit," 

 and the legalizing of such hunting for monetary gain by the 

 purchase of a market hunter's license for five dollars, are 

 not in keeping with the principles of game protection of 

 to-day, when all authorities are agreed that the market 

 hunter is a menace to what remains of our game resources. 

 We would urge the Alberta Government to remove from an 

 excellent game act that which tends, more than anything 

 else, to defeat the objects of such legislation. 



The number of mountain sheep and goat in Alberta would 

 undoubtedly increase if the bag limit were reduced to one 

 sheep and one goat, and if the laws were enforced in the 

 case of Indians, who have been chiefly responsible for the 

 reduction that has taken place in the number of these 

 animals, which are a great asset to the province. 



British Columbia. — In 1918 the game-protection service in 

 British Columbia was completely reorganized by the estab- 

 lishment of a Provincial Game Conservation Board, con- 

 sisting of members appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor 

 in Council, which board is charged with the administration 

 of the Game Act. It has been decided to entrust to the 

 provincial poHce, who will be ex officio game guardians, the 

 enforcement of the provisions of the Game Act, and the 

 chief of the provincial pohce is chief game warden. A num- 

 ber of the experienced game wardens are retained. 



The game legislation of British Columbia differs from that 

 of the rest of the provinces by reason of the fact that the 

 open seasons are fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun- 



