HUNTING WESTERN CARIBOU 
On the Harris Creek Plateau 
BY R. E. GODFREY 
HAVE often won- 
dered why so many 
sportsmen living in 
the Middle States 
go to Newfound- 
land and New 
Brunswick to hunt 
caribou, and have 
reached the con- 
clusion that it is 
because New- 
foundland has had 
the advantage of 
better advertising in the way of stories and 


articles on caribou hunting. If they would 
but bear in mind that in British Columbia, 
on the one trip, they can be as certain of 
getting as good a caribou head, with the 
advantage of a chance for a good deer, a 
grizzly or a black bear, a big-horn sheep 
and a white goat, we would see more of them 
up here. 
As this article has to do with caribou 
hunting I will confine myself to relating a 
trip I made last year, in company with some 
of my fellow British Columbians, and I 
believe our experience should convince any 
one that, for a satisfactory hunt, every way, 
the country in which we live 
cannot be surpassed. 
Three of us, William 
Thomas, George Smith and 
the writer, determined on a 
trip to the Harris Creek 
Plateau. We left Vernon, our 
home, with four pack-horses, 
on the afternoon of October 
14,and made camp at Vid- 
dlers Creek at sundown on 
the day following, having 
stopped the previous night 
in a hotel at Lumby. 
Breakfast over the next 
morning we packed up and 
started for the summit. On 
the way we saw several fine 
bunches of deer, but we did 
not bother them, as we knew 
we could get one when we 
made camp. But we were 
not so merciful toward the 
blue grouse, of which we 
shot nine, which sufficed for 
two or three days. 
We arrived at the summit 
of the plateau without a mis- 
hap, and met Dell and Guy 
Thomas just returning with 
a party of hunters, who 
