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3. CANADA AND SOUTH 

 AMERICA 



The countries in the New World of chief 

 interest to Englishmen seeking a career abroad 

 are first Canada, and then British Guiana and 

 neighbouring countries of South America. To 

 the sportsman, on the other hand, it is Canada, 

 and more particularly the western section of it 

 known as British Columbia, which constitutes 

 one of the most wonderful summer playgrounds 

 for trout-fishing and winter playgrounds for big- 

 game shooting in all the world. There is sport 

 also, however, in the eastern provinces. The 

 salmon rivers of Newfoundland, New Bruns- 

 wick, and Quebec have a reputation unrivalled 

 by even those of Scotland or Norway, and the 

 caribou of Newfoundland, with moose and 

 deer in New Brunswick, also attract numbers 

 of sportsmen every autumn. Those who go 

 for the winter shooting, and not for the fishing 

 in July, must, no doubt, face the rigours of a 

 Canadian winter, but they are, at any rate, free 

 from the terrible flies which make life all but 

 unbearable in the backwoods down to the end 

 of July. As the salmon-fishing of the Resti- 

 gouche and other famous rivers of the North 

 Shore ends by the middle of August, it is im- 

 possible to keep clear of the black fly, which, 



