NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 3 1 
1774, which includes two skins of “Nova Scotia Wolf.” (Raymond in the 
New Brunswick Magazine, I, 18, and History of the River Saint John, 182). 
In the year 1792 the Legislature of New Brunswick established a bounty 
upon wolves and the preamble to the act reads, — “Whereas many losses 
have been suffered by sundry Inhabitants of this Province from the destruc- 
tion of their Sheep by Wolves” ( Statutes of New Brunswick, 1786-1836, 
97). This thoroughly establishes their occurrence at that time, and shows 
that Gesner was mistaken when he said ( New Brunswick, 358) that prior 
to 1818 a wolf had not been seen in New Brunswick. 
In 1825 the wolf is recorded among the animals of the Province in one 
of the most accurate of New Brunswick books, — Fisher’s Sketches of New 
Brunswick, 8). But it is omitted from the excellent list given in 1832 by 
Cooney ( History of Northern New Brunswick and Gaspe, 231). In 1836-37 
it is given as “now but seldom seen” in another accurate work ( Notitia of 
New Brunswick, 25). 
In the winter of 1841-42 Gesner heard them howling nightly on Eel 
River in Carleton County (New Brunswick, 171), and the same winter, 
apparently, he saw a pack of eleven on Eel River Lake (Ibid., 358). 
In 1844 wolves prowled around the camp of Sir James Alexander, near 
the New Canaan (Washademoac) River (his L’Acadie, II, 151), and, later 
in the same year, one of his colleagues on a survey was nearly destroyed 
by a pack of wolves, apparently near Grand Falls (Ibid., 238). In the winter 
of 1844-45, they became very destructive to sheep at Sussex and at Mus- 
quash ( L’Acadie , II, 151, and contemporary newspapers cited by Clarence 
Ward in the Saint John Globe, December 20, 1905). It was probably in 
the same winter, and certainly not long prior to 1846, that a large pack of 
wolves appeared on the Lepreau River, and, by an ingenious device, some 
fifteen of them were trapped (Levinge, Echoes from the Backwoods, I, 146). 
In 1846, Lieutenant Colonel Baird saw tracks of a wolf, and heard them 
howling at night upon Eel River, Carleton County (Seventy Years of New 
Brunswick Life, 149-150). 
In 1864, Dashwood found the tracks of wolves, in the snow, following 
a herd of caribou, near the Little Southwest Miramichi Lake (Chi ploquorgan , 
113-137)*. It was probably somewhere about this time, though no date 
is given, that Rowan heard them howling beside “a lake in New Brunswick”' 
(Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada, 344).** 
*Without at all Questioning the correctness of Dashwood’s indentification of these- 
tracks, it should be added that evidence from tracks alone may be misleading. Mr. tY. 
H. Moore, in his article later-quoted, gives an instance of this. \\ hen hunting with his 
brother, Adam Moore, in Northern New Brunswick, one winter, they came upon large 
tracks, which they thought might be those of a wolf, following a herd of caribou. They 
followed the animal and found it was a fox! 
**While this paper is in press, I have heard from Mr. Rowan, who tells me he heard' 
the wolves on the Nepisiguit in 1866. 
