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head, Bruin still manages to exist and is 

 even reported to be increasing in numbers in 

 some sections of the country. Bear pelts and meat 

 are deemed so Valuable in the Province of Quebec 

 that the animals are protected during the mating 

 season. Only last June (1907) I counted thirteen 

 black bear skulls at one camp on the River Croche 

 in the Province of Quebec. Beautiful big silver 

 tipped black bear are reported to live far North 

 near one of the Hudson Bay Posts on the Labrador 

 coast, but I have never seen a pelt or met a man 

 who has examined either the skin or the bear itself. 

 In the Northwest, bear can be hunted from 

 canoes; I have seen them come down to feed 

 among the refuse of the lake shores, and passen- 

 gers aboard the up-to-date modern steamers on 

 Kootenay, Arrow and Slocum Lakes, are often 

 treated to the sight of real wild bears walking 

 along the shore and paying not the slightest atten- 

 tion to the big steamboat loaded with people. In 

 1901, I saw a number on the shores of these lakes. 



GRIZZLIES WHEN FEEDING 



seem to wish for no company outside of their own 

 circle, and if a person wishes to see them at their 

 feasts he must usually seek the shelter of a rock, 

 a choke-cherry, bull-berry, or sage-bush, from 

 which to make his observations. A number of 

 years ago while camping on the southern border 

 of the Yellowstone Park where the animals were 

 still wild, the wind suddenly shifted and blew di- 



