204 ROMANCE OF THE BEAVER 



protective laws and the making of parks or reserves 

 have, we hope, rendered this fear groundless, and 

 the beaver that has done so much in the past to 

 help in the development of Canada will find 

 sanctuary in the land of its forefathers. So that 

 the prediction made by Lydekker in 1894 in which 

 he says " both the European and American beaver 

 are doomed to extinction as wild animals at no very 

 distant date " will not be fulfilled. 



