4 SPORT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

So, one day when I happened to be in Vancouver
on the mainland I called at the office of the Provincial
Game Warden, Mr. A. Bryan Williams, who was then
at the head of what may be termed the Department
of Game and Fisheries, a position which ought long
ago to have been established in Norway for the sake
of game and shooting. Here, as in most other British
Colonies, the Government had fully realised the en-
ormous value of game and fish, and had not only passed
excellent game and fishery regulations but also saw
that they were effectively enforced by means of a
staff of efficient Game Wardens under Mr. Bryan
Williams. Further, and I consider this a most im-
portant point, the Provincial Game Warden seemed to
have a discretional power and could use his judgment
as to the advisability of close seasons or special local
restrictions referring to fishing and shooting. If only
we could get as far as that in Old Norway, where such
matters are settled entirely by politicians !

Yet rational Game preservation encounters many
difficulties in Canada, where there still exist a consider-
able number of Indians living a life as hunters, and
fishermen in the interior and along the coasts. Besides
these there are many white people, hunters, prospectors,
and lumbermen who live the life more or less of the
wilderness in far-off districts, and the provisions of
the game laws cannot be made fully applicable to
these people. On the other hand the sale of game
was absolutely prohibited, so that a wholesale slaughter
of game for profit was impossible.

But since the end of the great world War all this
has been changed. The position of Provincial Game
Warden has been abolished and no funds have been