FISHING IN CANADA 393 



The fish which abound in Canada include different varieties 

 of salmon and nearly every variety of trout, as well as those 

 splendid game fish the bass, the maskinonge, and the 

 ouananiche or land-locked salmon. 



The big game of the Dominion comprise moose, deer, 

 caribou, wapiti, bighorn or mountain sheep, musk ox, grizzly 

 bear, black bear, wolf, puma, Canadian lynx and antelope. 

 Most of the species of game now found in Canada were 

 formerly common to the whole of the continent of America, 

 but many of them have been altogether driven out of the 

 United States by the steady march of civilization, and have 

 retreated beyond the international boundary to take up 

 their abode in the greater freedom of the north. Here big 

 game and small are yet to be found in great numbers, and 

 Canada is therefore still one of the chief fur-producing coun- 

 tries in the world. In Canada the value of the wild life 

 of the country has long been recognized, and by wise laws 

 the Federal and Provincial Governments have protected all 

 kinds of game from indiscriminate slaughter. Educated 

 sportsmen throughout the Dominion are co-operating in this 

 protection by the formation of game protective associations, 

 and, as a consequence of this, big game has been on the in- 

 crease in Canada during recent years, while at the same time 

 the utmost freedom has been, and is, allowed for the enjoy- 

 ment of legitimate sport. It is therefore to Canada that the 

 European sportsman must go should he wish to enjoy the best 

 fishing and big game hunting that can be found in America. 



The Canadian climate is healthful and enjoyable. It is 

 a veritable physical tonic, and for the sportsman it has the 

 added advantage that there are no fevers or malaria such 

 as are so common in the big game countries of Africa, India 

 and South America. No poisonous snake need be feared, 

 but it must be confessed that the sociability of the black 

 flies will more than atone for the absence of reptiles. 



