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Mountain Lake, in Saskatchewan, were reserved; this area 

 contained altogether approximately 2,534 acres. By an 

 order of the Minister of the Interior on February 13, 1911, 

 all the vacant lands in the vicinity of Ministik Lake, Al- 

 berta, and other lakes in that locality, were set aside as 

 bird reserves. On May 18, 1915, the Minister of the Interior 

 approved of the reservation of all the vacant quarter-sections 

 immediately adjoining the following lakes in Saskatchewan 

 and Alberta, with a view to the future establishment of 

 permanent bird reserves: 



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Quill Lakes. 

 Lenore Lake. 

 Basin Lakes. 

 Bitter Lake. 



Moose Head Lake. 



Gaskell Lake. 



Grease Wood Lake. 

 *Pakowki Lake. 

 *Big Hay Lake. 



Saskatchewan 

 Cabri Lake. 

 Bigstick Lake. 

 Crane Lake. 

 Goose Lake. 



Alberta 

 *Birch Lake. 

 *Miquelon Lake. 



Cooking Lake. 

 *Ministik Lake. 



Wabamun Lake. 



Redberry Lake. 

 Johnston Lake. 

 Chaplin Lake. 

 White Bear Lake. 



Lac Ste. Anne. 



Buffalo Lake. 

 *Many Island Lake. 

 *Lac la Biche. 



When these lands were withdrawn from settlement, with 

 a view to the permanent reservation of those which were 

 suitable for permanent establishment as bird reserves, it 

 had not been possible to make a thorough examination of 

 their suitability for the purpose for which they were intended. 

 But such an examination was made in 1917 and 1918 by 

 Doctor R. M. Anderson, zoologist of the Geological Survey 

 and a member of the Advisory Board on Wild Life Protec- 

 tion, and, as a result of his careful observations on the species 

 of birds found frequenting, or likely to frequent, such res- 



* By Order in Council, dated 15th June, 1920, certain lands in the vicinity 

 of the lakes marked with an asterisk were set aside as bird sanctuaries. 



An Order in Council, dated 22nd June, 1920, makes regulations for the con- 

 trol and management of areas reserved as bird sanctuaries. 



