The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-25
HUNTING IN CANADA.
Game Plentiful and American Nimrods In Very
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QUEBEC, Oct. 24.-The fall hunting season in
Canada has now closed, and tho record ofmoose,
caribou, and red deer killed by American and
Canadian hunters is a very satisfactory one.
Caribou have been steadily increasing in
Canada for some years, and the hve years
close season for moose, which ended a couple OF
years ago, has largely multiplied these once
almost extinct animals in portions of the
Canadian woods. Red deer are also spreading
in sections Of the country north OF the st. Law
renee where they were almost unknown before,
owing no doubt to the setting apart of the
new Laurentides National Park, between
Quebec and Lake st. John, and the stocking Of
1t with a few head OF this much.prized game.
The rutting season for largo game is now at on
end, aud the water of the streams in which they
are often killed in September and early October
is too cold for either moose or caribou now. Tho
animals have consequently retired TO the back
woods, on the mountain tops, and elsewhere,
and will not be effectually hunted again until
the ground is covered with u fairly heavy fall Of
snow.
Tho country just north OF Quebec fairly swarms
with caribou. The writer saw several just before
A. ". Cheney. New York, state fish Culturist,
near Lake Patiscan on thc Triton tF2ct. Sey.
limits, just south OF the Triton Club, have also
luTnlSDtu u III OIL CARIBOU 10 nunllnR mem
bers. MIR. Joseph Bertrand OF FraserviMe Killed
two moose the other day within ten minutes in
the Squattook mountains of Ternisconata. One
Of them weighed over 800 pounds. Mr.. Nc
Nab OF the sane place also killed Two moose.
other day in killing n moose at what Is called
Dead Water in the SQuattooks. Finding itself
Wounded. tho animal made a charge al Mr..
Bernlie. and had almost succeeded in upsctting
his canoe when another well.directed shot ter
minated its career.
On the Jeannottc River. which Is the outlet Of
Lake Edward. Edison Fitch. President of tho
Stadacona Fish and Game Club. killed n SPLEEN
did moose, and Messrs. Beckett and Dobcl! each
In Nova Scotia moose hunters have been hay.
inE a big run OF luck. Ten, tine animals were
Hill and Ainsley OF Halifax got one, DR.. q. II.
Maokay another, while DR.. George II. ballery Of
York shot two at Middle Clyde. Mr.. J.
W. Burdick, general passenger agent of
tes PRS aStinE n @nq B 3ioofTG KsN!l"sy w 4n5
Samuel Hopkins and G. w. Wright OF New
York, tho party being fortunate enough TO Sc.
Killed at Lake jolly by William Ellis Of DiEby.
and in the Bear River region by Wi!Iigm Barnos
The sport in New brunswick has been quite
equal TO that in Quebec and Nova Scotia.
John Bruce OF Chicago has returned from the
Bathurst lakes. where he spent three weeks.
shooting q moose. a bear. and three caribou:
+. S. White and brothcr, of boston have killed
four caribou and one fine moose on the Nor
West River, while John Iodkin of Fredericton
killed a fine bull moose on the Nepisiqnit with
horns having the phenomenal spread of 66 inches.
4. F. Cobourn and DIR. George b. Elliott of Law
renee, Mass, killed two moose on the Little
River. and Lieut.. Hincks OF the Royal Berks ltegi.
ment shot two fine bull moose on the Ncpisiquit.
On the same river George F. Durgin Of Con
caribou, and missed a very largo moose
which came up to the call Of his guide in the
darkness. w. +. Fowle and Gordon Parker of
Boston have hunted tho Crooked Dcadwnter re-
gion and shot three moose, one of which had a
spread of antlers OF 30 inches.
Fred Harris. II. +. Hunter and Ralph Johnson
of Boston have been hunting in the Gains River
region. They got no moose, but haggcd n boar
and a lynx, and came near getting an
other bear. Some idea OF the wealth OF tho
country in game this season may be formed
from tic fact that Prof. Waite OF the University
of Tennessee. Knoxville. who shot one moose
and two caribou during his recent hunt on tho
Nor West River. reports that he saw altogether
on the trip thirteen moose and fourteen Carl
bou. As soon as there has been a good fall Of
snow there will undoubtedly DO another rush OF
American hunters into Canada.