PREFACE. 



The Author having brought out several years since 

 fl, work on sporting in Atlantic America, which was 

 favourably received, is induced to present the present 

 volume of more recent experiences, especially as the 

 interval since elapsed has been unmarked by the produc- 

 tion of any English publication of a similar kind. 



Many inquiries concerning the sports and physical 

 features of the British Provinces bordering on the 

 Atlantic, evidently made by those who meditate seeking 

 a transatlantic home, appear from time to time in the 

 columns of sporting periodicals, and elicit various and 

 uncertain replies. 



The Author's sojourn in the Acadian Provinces having 

 extended over a period of fifteen years, he trusts that the 

 information here afforded will prove useful to such querists. 



It will appear evident that he has formed a strong 

 attachment to the country, its scenery and wild sports, 

 and by some it will probably be said that the pleasures 

 of forest life are exaggerated in his descriptions of a 

 country possessing neither grandeur of landscape nor 

 inducements to the " sensational " sportsman. There is, 

 however, a quiet, ever-growing charm to be found in the 



