(Eharlea (Soruon fynritt 



1885-1920 



EVEN taking into account all Canada s resources 

 in men, it remains impossible to calculate the full 

 extent or tne loss to Canada and all America or Dr. 

 C. Gordon Hewitt. In tne difficult business or con- 

 serving game, and at tne same time conserving tne 

 good will or sportsmen, he was particularly gifted. 



Equipped with tne educated and finely-finished 

 mind or a Scotch scientist, he quickly grasped facts 

 and essential details, recognized their logical conclu- 

 sions, and then fearlessly proposed action. Although 

 educated, trained and at work as tne Dominion 

 Entomologist, his broad mind reached out and grasped 

 tne whole vertebrate fauna of tne vast region em- 

 braced in tne Canadian Dominion. 



Dr. Hewitt s most monumental single service 

 was in the active promotion of the international mi- 

 gratory bird treaty, in tne course of which ne visited 

 all the provinces of Canada, to smooth out difficulties. 

 For this he received the Gold Medal of tne British 

 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. His next 

 greatest work was m helping to frame Canada s really 

 great new Northwest Game Act, and in tne creation 

 of great preserves for tne musk-ox and caribou. One 

 month before his most untimely death be finished the 

 three-year task of "writing a book on the Conserva- 

 tion of Wild Life in Canada. 



May heaven send to -wild life more men like him. 



