NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 3& 
Mr. Chamberlain states that the wolf was “common from about 1840 until 
about 1860; since then, it has entirely disappeared.” 
In his Notes on Mammals from New Brunswick (in Bulletin of the American 
Museum of Natural History » VI, 1894, 105), Mr. J. A. Allen writes: “Mr. 
Rowley (an expert collector of animals who had worked on the Tobique), 
informs me that the gray Wolf has been, so far as he could learn 
from extended inquiries, quite extinct in this region for many years. Even 
one of the oldest Indian trappers he had met had never seen one.” 
In one of his valuable little articles upon New Brunswick Mammals, 
which have been appearing in the Montreal Family Herald and Weekly 
Star, (and which deserve a far more prominent and permanent publication), 
Mr. W. H. Moore of Scotch Lake, as a result of his inquiries into the subject, 
states that the last wolf in that part of New Brunswick was killed in 1854.. 
We consider finally the testimony of men who have known 
the New Brunswick woods for a long time, as trappers, guides 
or fur-dealers. I have written to several of the more promi- 
nent of these, and they have replied as follows : 
Mr. Manley Hardy, of Brewer, Maine, has been a life-long student of 
large animals, has hunted and trapped much in both Maine and New Bruns- 
wick, and has been a large dealer in furs. After giving me many facts about 
the occurrence of the wolf in Maine,* Mr. Hardy tells me that since 1865 
he has bought extensively of furs from the principal dealers at Fredericton, 
Saint John, Bathurst, Campbellton and elsewhere, but among all the furs 
from New Brunswick he has received only one wolf skin, which he had reason 
to believe came from Labrador, as it was accompanied by one of a white 
fox. 
Mr. J. A. Williams, of the Tobique River, who has been a trapper and lias 
a wide knowledge of New Brunswick animals, tells me he has never met 
with a wolf, and does not know of the occurrence of any in the Province 
within fifty years. 
Mr. Henry Braithwaite, the acknowledged leader of all New Brunswick 
guides and trappers, whose territory lies in the very wildest part of the 
^Concerning the wolf in Maine, Mr. Hardy writes in substance as follows, basing his 
statements mostly upon notes of his own; — Up to 1845-46 they might be called plenty. 
In 1853 I heard them while hunting on Union River and saw their tracks. In 1855 or 
56 I saw one within eighteen miles of Bangor. In 1860 one was trapped near Mooseluck.. 
In 1864 two were killed in summer near an old lumber camp. Between 1870 and 1875 
one was found drowned in the Union River. In 1887 I saw a track, heading west on 
Moosehead Lake, near Mount Kineo, and the same year wolves were said to have killed 
a deer. This is the last sign of a wolf of which I have heard in Maine. 
There is also valuable matter on wolves in Maine in Springer’s Forest Life and Forest- 
Trees, 1856, 109-114. 
It will be of interest to add here the only record I have found of their occurrence in 
Nova Scotia. This is in Campbell Hardy’s two fine books, which state that Wolves entered. 
Nova Scotia from New Brunswick about the year 1850, but did not long remain there.. 
( Sporting Adventures in the New World, 1855, I, 51, and Forest Life in Acadie, 1869, 152 ) 
