Identifier: ontgamefisher0911onta (find matches)
Title: Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission, 1909-1911. --
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Game and Fisheries Commission Evans, Kelly
Subjects: Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: Toronto : L. K. Cameron, Printer to the King
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Law Foundation of Ontario & the Ontario Council of University Libraries

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an Agents statis-tics of the game slaughtered by the Indians under such permits. (12) That steps be taken to prevent the Indians hunting in anyof the Provincial Forest Reserves. (13) That where Indian reservatioms are loicated in or in thevicinity of provincial forest reserve steps be taken, if possible, to cometo some arrangement with the Indians inhabiting them whereby theysihall surrender such reservations in return for lands at a distancefrom such reserves. (14) That the experiment be niade of still further rleveloping tlieexisting policy of employing a few Indians as fire rangers in the provin-cial forest reserves. Fur-Bearing Animals. In its fur-bearing amimals the Province of Ontario poss(^sses anasset of enormous value, but the ever rising mark(4 worth of tlie peltsof practically every species, the growth of jiopulation and the increasingaccessibility of nuany of its wilder regions have tended to and resultedin a great diminution in the numlxrs of nearly all varieties. So much
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1912 AND FISHERIES COMMISSION. 205 so was this the case in regard to the beaver and the otter that it wasfound necessary to proliibit altogether the taking of these animals fora period of years in order to siave them from extinction, which restric-tion is still in force, and it can hardly be doubted that some method ofexploiting these resources generally on more economic principles thanthose at present prevailing isihould be sought and put into effect if simi-lar drastic measures are not to become necessary to ensure the perpetu-ation of most of the other species. The variety of valuable fur-bearinganimals in the Province is great, including beaver, otter, mink, skunk,racoon, ermine, marten, fisher, lynx, fox, and muskrat, and if due pre-cautioms are taken it slioiuld be possible to perpetuate all these valuableanimals, in spite of the opening up of the country, for a gTeat many gen-erations to come. Most species are comparatively prolific and this factis alone sufficient to prove tha

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