Excerpt from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Vol. 47 I esteem it a great privilege to take part in the proceedings of this convention and to profit by the experiences of the many here assembled who are distinguished authorities upon the subject of conservation in general and fish and game in particular. Many of you come from states where the lack of proper conservation in the past necessitates the propagation of game as well as its protection, and all of us understand that present failure to protect what game we have must soon result in its complete disappearance. The extinction of the great auk, of the wild pigeon and the wild buffalo are constant reminders of the duty imposed upon us, of passing on to those who shall come after us, the rich supply of fur, fin and feather which has come down to us from former generations. Even in the vast Northern wild lands of the country from which I come, and in the far northwest of Canada, as well as in its far northeast, conservation is the duty of the hour, and active measures are essential to restrain the greed of gain from playing havoc with the remaining fauna of our northland. Let me occupy a few moments of your time in telling you of some of the problems which confront me and the officers of my Department and of just a few of the natural conditions of our province; a province which has some claims upon your consideration, not only because of the very great numbers of sportsmen from these United States who go there for their fishing and hunting, but because of the vast numbers of your game birds which have their breeding grounds there. The Province of Quebec, today, occupies just double the territory of the Quebec of five years ago. Prior to 1912, it had an area of 351,873 square miles. In that year, all the territory of the mainland of North America to the north of our then northern boundary, extending to Ungava Bay and Hudson Straits, having a superficies of 351,780 square miles, was annexed to our province, giving us a total area of 730,653 square miles, or over four hundred and fifty millions of acres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.