FOREST AND STREAM 
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Game Laws of New Bums wick and Ontario 
The First Complete Game Laws (in brief form) of New Brunswick and Ontario thus far Published 
in any Magazine 
NEW BRUNSWICK. 
T. G. Loggie, Deputy Minister of Lands and Mines. 
Game Seasons.—Every one is guilty of an offense and liable to the penalty here¬ 
inafter provided, who, between the dates hereinafter in each case specified, exclusive' 
of each date named in any part (unless otherwise provided) of this Province: 
(i) Hunts, takes, hurts, injures, traps, snares, shoots, wounds, kills or destroys— 
Any moose, deer or caribou between the 30th day of November, in any year, and 
the 15th day of September, following. 
Any partridge between the 30th day of November and the 15th day of September. 
Any wild goose, brant, teal, snipe, wild goose or other wildfowl, wood duck, 
dusky duck, commonly called black duck, wild duck, between the 1st of December 
and the rst of September following, except that it shall be lawful to hunt, take, shoot 
or kill any wild goose or brant in any locality frequented by such game, notwith¬ 
standing this act, provided the same be done by a bona fide resident of the Province 
of New Brunswick, and for the domestic use only of such resident; excepting that 
said two last wild fowl cannot be lawfully hunted or taken after sunset and before 
sunrise, between Sept. 1 and Dec. 1 in any year, upon certain marsh lands in 
Sbediac Parish, Westmoreland County; or in or upon any of the creeks or ponds 
therein; and also to hunt, take, shoot or kill any game for preservation as specimens 
of Natural History, or for Scientific Investigation, provided a license therefore is 
obtained; and to buy, sell, offer or expose for sale any wild goose or brant, between 
the end of the close season for killing such game in any year and the first of 
March then next following. 
Any woodcock between the 30th day of November and the 15th day of September 
following. 
Any shore or other birds, on, or along, the beaches, islands, or lagoons bordering 
the tidal waters of the counties along Northumberland Strait, the Gulf of Saint 
Lawrence and the Bay of Chaleur between the 31st day of December and the 15th 
day of August or woodcock between the 30th day of November and the 15th day 
of September. 
Every one is guilty of an offense who kills any cow moose or cow caribou, or 
any calf moose or calf caribou until it is at least three years old and has at least 
three points or tines not less than four inches on each horn. 
Every one is guilty of an offense who has in possession the carcass of any moose, 
caribou or deer through the use of any artificial light or lights; and wild goose, 
brant, teal, wood duck, dusky duck, black duck, by means of any punt gun or 
swivel gun or artificial light or lights; any moose, caribou or deer through the 
means of any dog. [Use of automatic gun for killing game forbidden. Use of motor 
boat for duck shooting forbidden. Forbidden to take firearms into moose or caribou 
country between Nov. 30 and Sept. 15 following, without permit from game warden. 
Forbidden to export partridge or sell same before Sept. 15, 1915.] When sink 
boxes are used, licenses must be procured from the Crown Land Office—Fee $1. 
Limit of birds: Twenty ducks per day per gun. Woodcock and partridge 10 birds. 
Hunting License. —Every one is guilty of an offense who kills any moose, caribou 
or deer without a license. Being a non-resident, hunts any partridge, snipe, wood¬ 
cock or any game bird without a license, which the Surveyor General is authorized 
to issue on payment of $10. The Surveyor General, chief game commissioner, or any 
warden may issue licenses which may be obtained at Crown Land Department, 
Fredericton, and elsewhere. Fee for non-resident license to kill one bull moose, one 
bull caribou and two deer, $50. Fee for resident license to kill moose, caribou and 
deer, $3. 
Non-Resident Must Have Guide. —No non-resident shall enter upon any woods, 
forests or wild lands for the killing of any moose, caribou or deer, without being 
in charge of a registered guide, and no registered guide shall at the same time 
guide more than two persons. 
Beaver. —Hunting of prohibited until July 1, 1915; sable until July 1, 1916. Mink, 
otter, fisher and sable, open season, November 1, to March 31; muskrat, March 
25 to May 15. 
It is forbidden by law to hunt, take, kill, wound or destroy any of the following 
birds: Sea-gulls, pheasant and small birds frequenting fields and woods (except 
black birds, crows and English sparrows) at any season. 
Shooting any game on Sunday, or in any park or pleasure resort, is prohibited. 
Licenses. —Guides and camp help must take out a liecnse for that business, costing 
$1, and are prohibited from shooting big game when acting as such. Only bona fide 
residents of the province can obtain licenses as guides or camp help. 
Non-resident’s license to trap fur j bearing animals, $25. 
The same can be kept in captivity. Fees—Mink, $3; beaver, $2; marten, $3; 
fisher, $5; otters, $3; sable, $5 each; muskrat, 50 cents a pair; nominal fee for other 
fur-bearing animals. No game can be kept in cold storage nor sold more than 15 
days after the termination of the open season. 
All game must be “tagged” for transportation, and no game can be taken out 
of the Province without a special permit from the Minister of Lands and Mines. 
Heads and carcasses of game will be seized unless properly “tagged,” and unless 
the coupon “Return” tag issued with the license is returned to the Crown Land 
Office. 
Not more than two moose and two caribou are permitted to be killed by persons 
working or staying at any one lumber camp. 
Guides and taxidermists must make yearly returns to the Crown Land Office. 
Taxidermists, not later than Dec. 1; guides, not later than Dec. 31. 
Minors under 16 cannot obtain any license. No “digging out” of foxes is 
allowed or “silencers” on guns. Carcasses of game must not be left on the ground 
or thrown into any stream or lake. No hunting can be done with hounds. 
Export. —License tag permits export of one animal. 
Fish. —Salmon shall not be killed between the 15th day of August and the ;st day 
of March ensuing; providing always, that it shall be lawful to kill salmon with a 
rod and line in the manner known as fly-surface fishing, between the rst day of 
February and the 15th day of August. In non-tidal waters frequented by salmon 
no one shall fish for, catch or kill salmon, or any other fish between 9 o’clock in 
the evening of Saturday and 6 o’clock on Monday morning. No person shall catch 
any speckled trout, lake trout or landlocked salmon between Sept. 15 and May 1 in 
each year, both days, inclusive. 
A non-resident must pay $5 for the privilege of angling in the Province. 
ONTARIO. 
E. Tinsley, Superintendent of Game and Fisheries. 
Hunting License.—No person not a British subject and no person not residing 
and domiciled in the Province of Ontario shall kill any game, or carry or use any 
gun or rifle in the Province for hunting purposes, except under the authority of 
a license. [Fee for hunting moose, deer, caribou and all other kinds of game $50. 
For hunting ducks and all other small game $25.] 
Sunday.—No person shall, on the Lord’s Day, hunt or kill any game or use any 
gun for that purpose. 
Deer, Moose, Caribou.—No person shall kill any deer, ’moose, reindeer or caribou', 
except under the authority of a license. No person shall kill or take any cow moose, 
or moose, reindeer or caribou under the age of one year. No person shall during 
any one year or season kill or take more than one deer, one bull moose or one 
bull reindeer or caribou. [But two or more persons hunting together may kill 
an aggregate of not more than one deer and ten partridge for each member of the 
party.] 
Open Season, All Dates Inclusive.—No person may hunt, take, kill or destroy: 
(a) Any deer, except between the 1st day of November and the 15th day of 
November. 
(b) Any moose, reindeer, or caribou in that part of Ontario lying south of the 
main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the town of Mattawa to the City 
of Port Arthur, except between the 1st day of November and the 15th day of 
November. 
(c) Any moose, reindeer, or caribou throughout that part of the Province lying 
north of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway from Mattawa to the Manitoba 
boundary, and that part of Ontario lying south of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 
from the City of Port Arthur to the Manitoba boundary, except between the 16th 
day of October and the 13th day of November. 
(d) Any grouse, pheasants, prairie fowl or partridge, except from the 15th day 
of October to the 15th day of November. 
(e) Any woodcock, except from the 1st day of October to the 15th day of 
November. 
(f) Any quail or wild turkeys, black and gray squirrels, except from the 15th 
day of November to the 1st day of December. 
(g) Any swans or geese except from the 15th day of September to the 15th day 
of April in the following year. 
(h) Duck of all kinds or any other waterfowl, snipe, rail, plover or any other 
birds known as shore birds or waders. Northern District, except from the 1st day 
of September to the 15th day of December. Southern District, except from the 15th 
day of September to the 15th day of December. 
(i) Capercailzie, except from the isth day of September to the 15th day of 
December, but no capercailzie to be killed before the 15th day of September, 1915. 
(j) Hares, except from the 1st day of October to the 15th day of December. The 
hunting, taking or killing of quail, Hungarian partridge and pheasants of any 
kind is prohibited for a period of two (2) years from October 14, 1914. The pur¬ 
chase or sale of snipe, quail, woodcock and partridge is prohibited for a period 
of 3 years from September 14, 1914. 
Waterfowl.—No wild ducks, geese or o-ther waterfowl shall be hunted, taken or 
killed from sail boats, yachts or launches propelled by steam or other power. No 
swivel gun, or guns of any kind of a larger bore or gauge than 8, and none of the 
contrivances which are known as sunken punts or batteries, shall be used at any 
time for taking swans, geese and ducks. No blinds or decoys for use in hunting 
duck or other waterfowl shall be placed at a greater distance than two hundred 
yards from the shore or a natural rush bed thick enough to conceal a boat, or 
from a water line bounding private property, and all decoys shall be removed from 
the water during the hours in which shooting is prohibited. 
No person shall take or kill more than 200 wild ducks in any one year. 
Night.—No person shall discharge any gun or other firearms at any game between 
half an hour after sunset and half an ' hour before sunrise. 
Possession.—(a) Game lawfully killed or procured may be kept during the period 
between the end of the open season in any year and the 16th day of January in 
the following year. 
Export.—(1) Any non-resident who may at any time be entitled to hunt within 
the Province by virtue of a license under this act, shall be at liberty to export 
out of the Province in any one open season game actually and lawfully killed by him, 
as follows: One deer, one bull moose, reindeer or caribou, 100 duck; but a shipping 
coupon attached to such license shall be attached to every such deer and to every 
receptacle containing such other game. .(2) Except as aforesaid, no person shall 
at any time export from the Province any game. 
No one shall take into or have in his possession in the Temagami Forest Reserve 
during the close season for moose, reindeer or caribou, any gun or rifle, any Mauser 
or other automatic pistol, or any revolver or other firearm having a barrel of a 
greater length, than 4 inches. The automatic or self-loading rifle may be used in 
open season. No automatic shot guns allowed. 
Beaver and Otter.—No beaver or otter shall be hunted, taken or killed or had in 
possession by any person before November 1st, 1915 and thereafter between April 
1st and November 1st in any year. No trap snare, gin or other contrivance shall 
be set for them during such periods. 
Muskrat.—No muskrat, taken, etc., as aforesaid, between May 1 and Dec. 1. Traps, 
etc., shall not be set for it during such period. This subsection applies to Indians 
in respect to private or leased land. 
Close season for muskrats in the electoral districts of Port Arthur, Fort William, 
Rainy River and Kenora: May 1 to March 1 in year following. 
No muskrat shall be shot during the month of April, or sheared at any time; 
nor shall any muskrat house be cut, sheared, broken or destroyed at any time. 
Mink.—No mink shall be hunted, taken or killed or had in possession of any person 
between May 1 and Nov. 1 following. 
