GAME LAWS FOK 1913. 47 
Alberta: Grouse, partridge, pheasant, prairie chicken, ptarmigan; other game birds Mar. 1-Sept. 20. 
Permitted: The flesh of big game and game birds may be sold under $10 license. Heads of big game 
before being sold must be stamped by minister of agriculture at fees of $5 for elk, caribou, moose, and 
sheep, and $2 for deer, antelope, and goat. 
British Columbia: Elk, quail, grouse, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, English partridge, pheasant, swan, 
female and young of deer, moose, caribou, or sheep, heads of moose, caribou, and sheep. 
Permitted: Male deer may be sold September 1-November 16; male moose, caribou, sheep, goats, and 
hares after October 1; snipe, ducks, and geese, October 1-December 1; and plover during the open 
season and five days thereafter. Lieutenant governor in council may alter or extend sale seasons. 
Manitoba: Deer, elk, moose, caribou, antelope (except heads and hides), quail, grouse, pheasant, par- 
tridge, prairie chicken, woodcock, plover, snipe, sandpiper. Ducks can not be sold before October 1. 
Permitted: Possession of grouse, prairie chickens, and partridges allowed for forty-five days, and 
ducks for three months, after close of hunting season. Deer for private use may be possessed at any 
time on proof of legal killing. 
New Brunswick: Partridge until September 15, 1915. 
Permitted: Geese and brant during open season and until March 1, and other game during open season 
and (under license) ten days thereafter. Keepers of hotels, inns, boarding houses, or restaurants may 
serve game during open season and fifteen days thereafter. Surveyor general may issue $1 licenses 
to dealers permitting sale by each of 3 deer and heads of same to taxidermists, and licenses to deal 
in hides or skins of game animals with fees of $25 to nonresidents or aliens and $2 to residents. 
Newfoundland: Capercailzie, black game. 
Permitted: Caribou may be sold from August 1 to January 1. 
Nova Scotia: Deer to 1915, caribou, pheasant, blackcock, capercailzie, Canada grouse (spruce partridge), 
chukar partridge. 
Permitted: Moose may be sold from September 17 to December 1. Rabbit, December 1 to March 1. 
Any game bird other than those above mentioned during the open season with the exception of the 
first three days. 
Ontario: Quail, partridge, woodcock, snipe, to September 15, 1914. 
Permitted: All other native game may be sold during the open season 1 by the person killing it and 
by dealers during open season and until the following January 1 under license. Imported game may 
be sold under special regulations and licenses. 
Quebec: 2 
Permitted: All game lawfully taken may be sold from the third day of the open season to the 
fifteenth day of the close season. Hotels, restaurants, and clubs may serve, under license, all game 
lawfully taken, except birch or swamp partridge. Live animals, and skins and heads of animals law- 
fully taken may be sold. 
Saskatchewan: Sheep, goat, or prairie chicken, grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, or other member of the 
Gallinse. 
Yukon: 
Permitted: Deer, elk, moose, caribou, bison, musk oxen, sheep, and goats may be sold during the open 
season and sixty days thereafter. 
LIMITS. 
Laws limiting the amount of game which can be killed in a day or 
a season are now in force throughout the United States, except in 
Kentucky, Rhode Island, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 
and in all the Canadian Provinces, except Prince Edward Island. 
These measures are of comparatively recent origin. One of the first 
statutes of the kind was that passed in Iowa in 1878 (ch. 156, sec. 3) 
limiting the killing or possession of prairie chickens, snipe, woodcock, 
quail, and ruffed grouse to 25 in a day. 3 Maine, in 1883 (ch. 185, 
sec. 1), limited the number of big game which an individual might kill 
in a season to 1 moose, 2 caribou, and 3 deer, and New York, in 1886 
(ch. 194, sec. 1), likewise limited the number of deer to 3. In spite of 
the objection often urged against such statutes — that they are impos- 
sible of enforcement and easily evaded — experience has shown them to 
1 Seasons depend on regulations of game commission. 
2 Lieutenant governor in council may prohibit sale of any game for three years or less or prolong any 
existing period of prohibition for three years or less. 
3 This statute was, however, preceded by one enacted in 1874 limiting the shipment of game birds to 
a dozen a day, provided the birds were not shipped for sale (ch. 69, sec. 1). 
