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Hills. If cities in Great Britain can maintain such park 

 areas for the recreation of their people, surely in Canada, 

 with our incomparable opportunities for creating within easy- 

 access of our cities national parks and wild-life reserves, we 

 should be able to make greater progress in this direction than 

 has already been accompUshed. All our larger cities have 

 suitable areas in their vicinities; certain cities, such as Que- 

 bec, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria, already 

 have national or provincial parks within a comparatively 

 short distance, but, in other cases, the distance to the near- 

 est park prohibits many, to whom the opportunities which 

 it affords for recreation are necessary, from taking advan- 

 tage of them. Few movements would be more effectual as 

 a means of improving the health of our citizens and of in- 

 creasing their capacity for wholesome enjoyment than one 

 for the creation of such civic reserves, and for this reason 

 their promotion should be undertaken by all civic organiza- 

 tions that are sincerely interested in the welfare of the com- 

 munities in which they exist. 



Game Protective Associations. — Among the numerous 

 methods by which community effort to conserve our wild 

 life may be undertaken, the formation of special associations 

 for this purpose constitutes one of the most influential. 

 There are already in existence in Canada a number of asso- 

 ciations of sportsmen, guides, and also of persons interested 

 in the protection of wild life. Although a number of such 

 sportsmen's organizations were primarily formed for the 

 protection of the interests of the sportsmen rather than for 

 the protection of the game, the majority of these associations 

 are fully alive to the importance of adequate protection for 

 our game animals, as evidenced by the support that many 

 of them gave to the Migratory Birds Treaty, even though 

 its provisions somewhat curtailed opportunities for hunting 

 wild fowl. 



Of all classes of the community the sportsmen should be, 



