Identifier: gameanimalsbirds00brit (find matches)
Title: Game animals, birds, and fishes of British Columbia, Canada
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: British Columbia. Bureau of Provincial Information
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: Victoria : Cullin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ks. Horses can only beused on the trails and can seldom be taken high into the huntingcountry, so that the man who wishes to get a big-horn, for whichthe mountains are especially famous, must be strong in wind andlimb. The greater portion of this vast Province is still unsettled,some of it even unexplored, and owing to its mountainous characterwill remain so for years to come. The consequence is that, whilesome species of game in certain districts may have become scarce,in others they are as plentiful as ever, while moose have beensteadily increasing for some years past. Even in the most settleddistricts careful preservation has had a wonderful effect, so thatclose to Vancouver, a city of 165,000 people, deer and bear arecommonly killed; pheasants actually frequent some of the gardens,and mountain - goats still remain on some of the neighbouringmountains. There is absolutely no part of the Province wheregood sport of some kind cannot be obtained; in fact, it is one greatgame preserve.
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9 With the exception of musk-ox and antelope, we have everyspecies of game that exists on the Continent. There are even afew wood-buffalo still in existence, while the rarest of other speciesare still to be found in fair quantities. In addition, the Europeanred deer is to be imported to add an additional attraction to thoseNature has bestowed with a lavish hand. Besides our big game,there are ducks, geese, and snipe, pheasants, grouse, and quail,some native, others acclimatized, that furnish sport for the gun,while all our waters have trout and grayling, and for size andnumbers the salmon-fishing is the best in the world; in fact, somany and varied are the sporting possibilities that it would takeyears to exhaust them. It must, however, be borne in mind that, while we have plentyof game, it does not exist in vast quantities, as it does in Africa.Moreover, each species of game has its own particular range orhabitat, and while you may get one or two different kinds fromone camp, as a ge

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