REPORT ON CANADA’S NATIONAL HERD 
For THE CALENDAR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1913 
HE Dominion Parks Branch has under its admin- 
istration seven National Parks, two of which have 
been specially set aside for the protection of bison, viz., 
Buffalo Park, near Wainwright, Alta., containing an 
area of 104,000 acres, entirely fenced, and Elk Island 
Park, near Lamont, ‘Alta., also fenced, containing an 
area of 16.9 square miles. 
The only other National Park in which to-day bison 
are maintained is the Rocky Mountains Park at Banff, 
Alta., where a small herd is kept as an attraction to 
tourists and others. 
The main herd of bison is maintained at Buffalo 
Park and consists of 1,446 animals, made up as follows 
500 adult bulls, 476 cows and 470 calves and yearlings 
of both sexes. There has been a natural increase in 
this park of 236 calves, successfully raised, during the 
year and for the same period a decrease of ten animals 
as follows: 1 cow shipped to Winnipeg for the city 
park, 1 bull and 1 cow shipped to Dublin, Ireland, for 
the Royal Zoological Society’s gardens there, 4 pulls 
and 1 cow killed on account of i injuries through fighting, 
2 bulls which died from injuries through fighting. 
There have been no acquisitions to the herd other than 
by natural increase in Buffalo Park. 
In Elk Island Park there are 83 bison, the herd 
consisting of 26 bulls, 45 cows and 12 calves of both 
sexes. The decrease in this park, during the past year, 
amounted to only one animal, a bull, injured while 
fighting. No acquisitions, other than by natural in- 
crease, and no disposals of bison, were made in regard 
to Elk Island Park. 
In Rocky Mountains Park a small herd of 29 bison 
were maintained during the year, consisting of 19 bulls 
and 10 cows; a natural increase of two took place dur- 
ing the year and a decrease of one bison, a bull, which 
died from injuries through fighting. 
By the time this report is in print, the cows which 
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