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APPENDIX 



E. 



STOCKING NEWFOUNDLAND WITH MOOSE 



It is supposed that Newfoundland became separated from 

 the North American mainland at the Straits of Belle Isle in 

 an early geologic age, before the arrival of the moose on the 

 Atlantic seaboard. At any rate, the earliest white settlers 

 found on the island no trace of the great deer which was so 

 important a factor in the lives of the mainland Indians. 



The late James P. Howley, F. G. S., director of the Colonial 

 Geological Survey, wrote that in the late '70s of the last 

 century two young moose were obtained from Nova Scotia, 

 and released at Gander Bay, in eastern Newfoundland. In 

 1 91 2 a bull, five or six years of age, supposed to be a de- 

 scendant from this pair, was killed on the Gander River. 

 The man who shot the moose asserted that he fired in self- 

 defense. The head was mounted, and is now in the office 

 of the Game and Inland Fisheries Board at St. John's. The 

 antlers have 74-7 well defined points, but the spread is only 

 33/^ inches. The greatest breadth of palmation is 8 inches 

 right, 7^ inches left; circumference of beam, inches. 

 A srnaller bull, still carrying his antlers, was found dead on 

 the banks of the Gander, near Glenwood, in April, 19 19. 

 The cause of his death is unknown. These antlers have 5+5 

 points, spread 31J/2 inches, and the palmation measures 4^4 

 inches right, and 43^ inches left. 



In the early summer of 1904, through the agency of Mr. 

 Howley, two bulls and two cows were brought from New 

 Brunswick, and released near Grand Lake, in western New- 

 foundland. Their progeny are now found in increasing num- 

 bers around Deer Lake, Grand Lake, the upper Humber, and 

 in the country about Serpentine River. The success of the 

 experiment in stocking the island with moose thus seems as- 

 sured. There is no open season for hunting moose in New- 

 foundland. 



