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Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador - Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, - F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of - Conservation in January, 1911 by William (William Charles Henry) Wood
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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,
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