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vation of game to cite the reasons resting on hunting with a camera 

 rather than hunting with a gun? The argument about the hunting 

 appears to me as too ancient to be of use in coming years. Ottawa is 

 a great headquarters for men who hunt. There is not one person 

 in a thousand in Ottawa who has any chance to hunt with a gun 

 and, of that number, at least four out of five are not quite safe 

 companions with a gun. I gathered from Mr. WiUiamson's paper 

 that no such argument was needed for the maintenance of our buffalo 

 parks; no one wants to go hunting with a gun for buffalo any more. 

 No such arguments can be used for the antelope. If we encourage 

 hunting with a camera and discourage hunting w;ith a gun, we shall 

 not be any less courageous or resourceful. Canada ought to be a bird 

 sanctuary from ocean to ocean, so far as guns are concerned. I know 

 no feathered creature that any man is entitled to shoot with a gun 

 in these days. 



Dr. Hewitt: It will be a sanctuary so far as insectivorous birds 

 are concerned. 



Dr. Robertson : That is -hy I think if we put it on this humane 

 and not less enterprising plane to the public and the Government we 

 should perhaps achieve more. I put Mr. Williamsoif on his mettle; 

 would he rather hunt with a gun or with a camera ? 



