Tags From Legs of Geese 

 Shot by Eskimo Hunters 

 Are Returned to Jack Miner 



Missionary Forwards Unique Aluminum Bands Bearing 

 Naturalist's Address, Date of Tagging and 

 Scriptural Quotation — Northern Natioes 

 Are Keenly Interested 



Coincident with the recent ac- 

 count in The Globe o£ Jack Miner's 

 hobby of catching, tagging and lib- 

 erating hundreds of the wild geese 

 on his Kingsville sanctuary was the 

 receipt by Mr? Miner on April 29 o£ 

 «roof — in the form of a letter from 

 a far-away Hudson's Bay Company 

 post — of the missionary work he i: 

 accomplishing through the mediun 

 of that hobby. The Kingsville na- 

 turalist has forwarded to The Globe 

 the letter and two tags taken from 

 geese shot bv Eskimos. 



Writing under date of Jan. S from 

 th« Anglican Mission at Port Harri- 

 son. F. H. Gibbs has forwarded Mr. 

 Miner two aluminum tags which 

 were given to .the former by two 

 Eskimos in the fall of 1925. One 

 4ag. -bearing the inscriptioji_"God Is 

 a Spirit." was taken from the leg 

 of a goose shot in latitude 5S.1B and 

 longtitude It. around July 16. The 



on each is a verse of Scripture. The 

 first Eskimo who handed it to me 

 was very anxious to know what the 

 writing meant, and it was a joy to 

 see how pleased he was that < 

 the winged creatures can convey 

 news of God and of His Son, J. 

 Christ, our Saviour. May God 

 bless this silent witness of yours." 

 Shot Long After Tagging. 



Mr. Miner supplies the informa- 

 tion that the ; first goose mentioned 

 was tagged on his Kingsville farm 

 in April, 1924. , The second goose 

 travelled more extensively than the 

 first after branding. Tagged earl* 

 in 1923 it lived more than two years 

 before falling prey, to the hunter. 



On the Miner sanctuary catching 

 ine geese is not the only big job. 

 The manufacture of the aluminum 

 xinglets_ takes up. a_great deal at 

 time and patience. / "uracil ""banc! 

 bears not only Jack Miner's name 

 and address, but the date the tag 



MAKING TAGS FOR WILD GEESE 



Jack Miner busy at his Kingsville home making aluminum 

 tags for the legs of the wild geese which visit and revisit him until 

 brought down by hunters' guns. 



second tag. inscribed "Delight Thy- 

 self also in the Lord," was. remov - 

 ed from a goose killed some time 

 last September in latitude 59.5 and 

 longtitude 79.5. • 



Mr. Gibbs' letter of explanation is 

 herewith reproduced in part: "I 

 have just newly arrived here this 

 last year with the intention of es- 

 tablishing a mission station at Port 

 Harrison for the people of this 

 reeion. I have often heard of your 

 •work while in Toronto and have 



was fastened to a goose and a verse 

 of Scripture similar to those here- 

 tofore described. Practically all 

 this stencil and stamping work is 

 done by Mr. Miner himself. 



One feature of Jack Miner and 

 his work is the co-operation given 

 him bv the citizens of Kingsville 

 and the neighboring Town of Leam- 

 ington. The birds have not only 

 made Miner and his sanctuary 

 famous, but they have been the 

 means of bringing thousands of peo- 

 nlp'to Klmrfsville rnrh summer who 



