Hon. W. T. Finlay, then Minister of Agriculture, and author- 

 ized Mr. Radford to obtain not only big game and game birds 

 but also two Wood Bison. This permit was granted with the 

 understanding that Mr. Radford was to obtain for the Provincial 

 Government one specimen. It appears that after obtaining his 

 first specimen he was proceeding on his second trip to obtain 

 the other when the Royal North West Mounted Police, acting 

 under the authority of the Dominion Government, objected to 

 his killing any more of the bison. The following summer he 

 went to Edmonton and on reporting the particulars of the case 

 was granted a permit for two more of the bison. There was 

 some difficulty over the specimen which Mr. Radford brought 

 out. He wished to send it to the Smithsonian Institute. The 

 Alberta Government, however, took the stand that the permit 

 was granted on condition that one specimen was to go to the 

 Provincial Museum and that with the permit which had been 

 granted authorizing him to take two more specimens Mr. Rad- 

 ford would be permitted to send out to the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tute, or any other institution which he chose, the two specimens 

 which he aimed to get in the north. A compromise was effected 

 and Mr. Radford was permitted to ship the skeleton of the ani- 

 mal to the Smithsonian Institute, the skin remaining with the 

 Provincial Government with which to mount a whole specimen. 

 The Smithsonian Institute agreed to furnish a plaster cast of 

 the leg bones and skull. These were received in due course 

 and were mounted by a taxidermist in Edmonton and the 

 mounted specimen is now located in the Museum maintained 

 by the Calgary Natural History Society in that city. 



In 1911 Mr. Radford, accompanied by Mr. T. G. Street, 

 who was a Canadian and a native of Ottawa, proceeded on up 

 north. They wintered near Schultz Lake and early in 1912 

 reached Bathurst Inlet. The following year reports reached 

 civilization that on June 5, 1912, they had been murdered by 

 some Killin-e-muit Eskimos on Kwog-juk Island in the Bathurst 

 Inlet. This report was fully investigated by the Royal North 

 West Mounted Police and found to be true. 



Note: In a letter from Hon. J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of Parks, Ottawa, 

 Canada, dated November 27, 1923. addressed to Edmund Seymour, President of 

 the American Bison Society, he states as follows. 



"Since last winter the Department has had under consideration a proposal to 

 make shipments of buffalo from the surplus of the Wainwright herd to Fort 



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