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Dominion of Canada. 



ASSIJTABOIA. 



Medicine Hat (Can. P.) The shooting grounds are: Cypress hills and Island 

 lake 30 m., and numerous other lakes within a radius of 15 m. ; all eood grounds: 

 the first best for antelope, elk, bear, duck, geese and "chicken;" from 8ept. 1 to 

 Feb. 1 open season for all the game named except duck, for which the season opens 

 Aug. 15; livery $3 p. d., double team; hotels $2 p. d.; guides $2 50 p. d.; country 

 diversified and mostly Dominion lands, free to all; portable canvas br-ats and a 

 supply of decoys will be of service for la 1 e shooting. 



Qu'Appelle (Can. P.) The Qu' Vppelle and a number of other lakes within 20 

 m. are all good for duck and geese, and on the grounds adjacent thereto, deer, bear, 

 grouse, wolf, fox, rabbit, chicken, partridge (?) are found in numbers; Sept. and 

 Oct. best; livery moderate; hotels $1.50 p. d ; guides, with dogs, reasonable; coun- 

 try diversified and free to all. 



Regina (Can. P.) BucV and Long lakes respectively 1H and 24 m.; both good; 

 duck and geese: the first most abundant; Sept. and Oct. best: livery, double team, 

 $5 p. d.; camping necessary country diversified and free to hunters; prime duck 

 shooting. 



Swift Current (Can. P.) Hush lake 22 m., Goose lake 18 rn.. Gull lake 36 m.; 

 first best; duck, geese, swan and crane; two first most abundant: for open seasons 

 see Medicine Hat, Assiniboia ; camping necessary; hotels at station $2 p. d.: half 

 breed and Indian guides (no dogs) cheap; country diversified and free to all; the 

 shooting at Rush lake is excellent, at other points fair. 



Wapella (Can. P.) Pipe Stone creek 8 m. and Qu'Appelle river 12 m.; duck, 

 geese, rabbit, deer and bear; legal season best, for which see Medicine Hat above; 

 livery $3 p. d.; hotels $1.25 p. d.; guides (no dogs) reasonable; country wooded, 

 hilly and open to all hunters; hunting gocd. 



Wolseley (Can. P.) The Wolf hills north of Qu'Appelle river give the best hunt- 

 ing; duck, chicken, pheasant and fox and wolf in winter; chicken most abundant; 

 Oct. best month; livery $1.50 p. d.; hotels $1.50 p. d.; guide $1 p. d. and board; 

 country diversified and free to shoot on; good shooting, especially for chicken. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Mission (Can. P.) Hatzie slough. Stone and Seemas lakes 8 m. are best for duck, 

 geese and swan; deer, bear, mountain sheep, panther, grouse are also found; deer, 

 wild fowl and grouse most abundant; Oct. and Nov. best; hotels $1 p. d. ; Indian 

 guides, with dogs, reasonable; country diversified and free to all comers; hunting 

 good. 



New Westminster (Can. P.) The best grounds lie within 2 to 25 m. of station: 

 geese, duck, grouse, "partridge," black bear, deer, mountain goat and snipe; feath 

 ered game most abundant; Oct. and Nov. best; livery seldom used, $3.50 to $5p.d.; 

 hotels $1.50 to $2. 50 p. d.; Indian guides, including canoe, $1 to $2.50 p. d.; they 

 have trained dogs; country diversified and free to all; hunting excellent. 



Port Moody (Can. P.) The rivers and bottoms from 4 to 6>2 m. are the best 

 grounds; deer and grouse ("blue" and "willow''): willow grouse most abundant; 

 Oct. and Nov. best; livery from $2.50 to $5 p. d.; hotels $1 to $2 p. d.; Indian 

 guides, no dogs, $1.50 to $2.50 p. d.; country diversified, and as a rule land own- 

 ers do not object; good shooting, especially for grouse, and in the fall and winter 

 duck are abundant; very good deer hunting can be had on the Coquitluin river 4 

 m. from station; bear and mountain sheep are in the mountains adjacent, and are 

 generally hunted in the spring, as they follow the melting snow to feed on the 

 young grass. 



