Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador | Page 6

old-standing superstition of the Indians, the animals have not been
molested for a long period and they have become much more numerous
than elsewhere.... Everything that can be killed is called Game. Most of
it should be called animal murder and should be discouraged.
The Sanctuary should be placed in charge of a committee of naturalists.
But zoologists are scarce in Canada and those who have taken an
interest in the animals might be included. Faithful men to carry out
their instructions I think can be found.
The President of the Boone and Crockett Club, Major W. Austin
Wadsworth, Geneseo, N.Y., wrote:
I wish to express officially the admiration of our Club for your paper
on Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, because the whole question of

Game Refuges has been one of especial interest to us and we have been
identified with all movements in that direction in this country.
Captain R.G. Boulton, R.N., retired, was engaged for many years on
the Hydrographic Survey of the Lower St. Lawrence, the Gulf and
Newfoundland. He says:
There is no doubt, as regards the conservation of _birds_, that sea-birds,
such as gulls, &c., &c., are useful "aids to navigation," by warning the
mariner of the proximity of land, on making the coast. On foggy shores,
like those of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, they are
especially useful, and it is to the advantage of the voyaging public to
conserve what we have left. While carrying on the Survey of Georgian
bay, and North channel of lake Huron, 1883-1893, the _Bayfield_, my
surveying vessel, was more than once kept off the rocks in the foggy
weather which prevails in May and June, by the chirping and warbling
of land birds.
His Excellency the Right Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador at
Washington, who is a keen botanist and lover of the wilds, writes:
It is painfully interesting. One finds it hard to realize that such wicked
waste of the gifts of Providence, and such horrible cruelty, should be
going on in our time. You are doing a great service in calling attention
to them and I heartily wish you success in your endeavours.
At a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the Camp-Fire Club
of America, held on December 12th last, the following resolution was
unanimously passed:
"_Whereas_, the Camp-Fire Club of America desires to express its
interest in and endorsement of the plan for the establishment of Bird
and Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, outlined by Lieut.-Colonel
William Wood in his address before the Commission of Conservation
delivered at Quebec, in January, 1911;
"We believe that the establishment of adequate sanctuaries is one of the
most potent factors in the conservation of our rapidly disappearing wild
life. The Camp-Fire Club of America has taken, and is taking, an active
part in the movement for the establishment of such sanctuaries in
various places. We believe that such sanctuaries should be established
in Labrador in the near future, while an abundance of undeveloped land
is available and before the wild life has been decimated to such an
extent as to make its preservation difficult;

"_Be it therefore Resolved_, that the Secretary convey to Colonel
Wood the assurance of our hearty interest in and approval of the plan to
establish adequate animal sanctuaries in Labrador, and our hope that
such sanctuaries will be established in the near future."
Dr. John M. Clarke, Director, Science Division, New York State
Education Department, and a gentleman acquainted with the wild life
of the gulf of St. Lawrence, writes:
I have taken much interest in reading your paper. It seems to be based
on an extraordinary acquaintance with the situation.
Canada is blessed with many unique natural resorts of animal life and I
have been particularly impressed with the invasions that have been
made on the wonderful nesting places of the waterfowl. In my repeated
stays on the coast of Gaspe and the islands of the Gulf, now running
over a dozen years, I have had my attention forced to the hideous
sacrifices of bird life that are constantly going on; for example in the
Magdalen islands with their extraordinary array of shore birds. The
great lagoons within the islands afford ideal breeding conditions, and
an extraordinary attraction for the hunter as well.
My observation leads me to the conviction that the shooting law is not
in the least respected on these islands, except perhaps by the residents
themselves. In some cases the outsider is obliged to wait for the fall
migration of the ducks and geese and so comes within the law, but
there are plenty of early migrants that arrive during the close season,
only to be quickly picked up by the summer hunter, who realizes that
he is too far away to incur the law's force.
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