﻿GAME LAWS FOR 1913. 47 



Alberta: Grouse, partridge, pheasant, prairie, chicken, ptarmigan; other game birds Mar. 1-Sept. 20. 



Permit/id: The flesh of big game and game birds may be sold under $10 license. Heads of big game 

 before being sold must be stamped by minister of agriculture at fees of $5 for elk, caribou, moose, and 

 sheep, and $2 for deer, antelope, and goat. 

 British Columbia: Klk, quail, grouse, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, F.nglish partridge, pheasant, swan, 

 female and young of deer, moose, caribou, or sheep, heads of moose, caribou, and sheep. 



Permitted: Male deer may be sold September 1-November l(i; male moose, caribou, sheep, goats, and 

 hares after October 1; snipe, ducks, and geese, October 1-December 1; and plover during the open 

 season and five days thereafter. Lieutenant governor in council may alter or extend sale seasons. 

 Manitoba: Deer, elk, moose, caribou, antelope (except heads and hides), quail, grouse, pheasant, par- 

 tridge, prairie chicken, woodcock, plover, snipe, sandpiper. Duels can not be sold before October 1. 

 Permitted: Possession of grouse, prairie chickens, and partridges allowed for forty-five days, and 

 ducks for three months, after close of hunting season. Deer for private use may be possessed at any 

 time on proof of legal killing. 

 New Brunswick: Partridge until September 15, 1915. 



Permitted: Geese and brant during open season and until March 1, and other game during open season 

 and (under license) ten days thereafter. Keepers of hotels, inns, boarding houses, or restaurants may 

 serve game during open season and fifteen days thereafter. Surveyor general may issue SI licenses 

 to dealers permitting sale by each of 3 deer and heads of same to taxidermists, and licenses to deal 

 in hides or skins of game animals with fees of $25 to nonresidents or aliens and $2 to residents. 

 Newfoundland: Capercailzie, black game. 



Permitted: Caribou may be sold from August 1 to January 1. 

 Nova Scotia: Deer to 1915, caribou, pheasant, blackcock, capercailzie, Canada grouse (spruce partridge), 

 chukar partridge." 



Permitted: Moose may be sold from September 17 to December 1. Rabbit, December 1 to March 1. 

 Any game bird other than those above mentioned during the open season with the exception of the 

 first three days. 

 Ontario: Quail, partridge, woodcock, snipe, to September 15, 1914. 



Permitted: All other native game may be sold during the open season 1 by the person killing it and 

 by dealers during open season and until the following January 1 under license. Imported game may 

 he sold under special regulations and licenses. 

 Quebec: 2 



Permitted: All game lawfully taken may be sold from the third day of the open season to the 

 fifteenth day of the close season. Hotels, restaurants, and clubs may serve, under license, all game 

 lawfully taken, except birch or swamp partridge. Live animals, and skins and heads of animals law- 

 fully taken may be sold. 

 iaskatchewan: Sheep, goat, or prairie chicken, grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, or other member of the 



Gallinae. 

 Yukon: 



Permitted: Deer, elk, moose, caribou, bison, musk oxen, sheep, and goats may be sold during the open 

 season and sixty days thereafter. 



LIMITS. 



Laws limiting the amount of game which can be killed in a day or 

 a season are now in force throughout the United States, except in 

 Kentucky, Rhode Island, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 

 and in all the Canadian Provinces, except Prince Edward Island. 

 These measures are of comparatively recent origin. One of the first 

 statutes of the kind was that passed in Iowa in 1878 (ch. 156, sec. 3) 

 limiting the killing or possession of prairie chickens, snipe, woodcock, 

 quail, and ruffed grouse to 25 in a day. 3 Maine, in 1883 (ch. 185, 

 sec. 1), limited the number of big game which an individual might kill 

 in a season to 1 moose, 2 caribou, and 3 deer, and New York, in 1886 

 (ch. 194, sec. 1), likewise limited the number of deer to 3. In spite of 

 the objection often urged against such statutes — that they are impos- 

 sible of enforcement and easily evaded — experience has shown them to 



1 Seasons depend on regulations of game commission. 



2 Lieutenant governor in council may prohibit sale of any game for three years or less or prolong any 

 existing period of prohibition for three years or less. 



3 This statute was, however, preceded by one enacted in 1874 limiting the shipment of game birds to 

 a dozen a day, provided the birds were not shipped for sale (ch. 69, sec. 1). 



