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General of Canada in the season of 1911. 

 The government will receive a rental of 

 a hundred and fifty dollars a year, and, 

 not to take very high ground, will prob- 

 ably lose more than this amount annu- 

 ally in shooting licenses alone. The 

 assigned reason for permitting this in- 

 vasion is that an industry established 

 at the mouth of a river which has its 

 source in the park finds, through mis- 

 calculation or lack of calculation, it has 

 not at all seasons an adequate supply of 

 water. Engineers admit that the pro- 

 posed dam will, at best, give only very 

 trifling assistance. There are men, and 

 no doubt very worthy and honest men, 

 who think that when they have said 

 " commerce before sport" the last and 

 only word on the subject has been 

 uttered. One would wish to suggest to 

 them that sport has a commercial side, 

 and one of great present and future 

 importance. Nor at this hour should it 

 be necessary to draw their attention to 

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