Acres           Sq. miles
Rocky Mountains Park             2,764,800           4,320
Yoho Park                        1,799,680           2,812
Glacier Park                     1,474,560           2,304
Buffalo Park                       384,000             600
Elk Island Park                     40,000              62
Jasper Park                      3,488,000           5,450
Waterton Lakes Park                 34,560              54
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9,985,600          15,602

The Rocky Mountains Park is near Banff.  The Yoho and Glacier Parks are near Field.  The Buffalo Park is near Wainwright, on the plains, and it was created and fenced especially as a home for the herd of American bison that was purchased in Montana in 1909.  It now contains 1,052 head of bison, 20 moose, 35 deer, 7 elk, and 6 antelope.

The Elk Island Park is near Fort Saskatchewan and Lamont, and at this date (1912) it contains 53 bison, 28 elk, 30 deer and 5 moose.  The bison subsist entirely by grazing, and upon hay cut within the Park.

Jasper Park, established in 1908, is on the Athabasca River and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, near Strathcona.  Sixty miles of the railway line lie within the Park.  Scenically, Jasper Park is a rival of Rocky Mountains Park, and undoubtedly possesses great attractions for travellers who appreciate the beauties and grandeur of Nature as expressed in mountains, valleys, lakes and streams.

Waterton Lakes Park is situated in the extreme southwestern corner of Alberta, in the Rocky Mountains surrounding the Waterton Lakes.  At present it is nine miles long from north to south and six miles wide, with its southern end resting on the international boundary, and adjoining our Glacier Park.  It is the home of a few bands of mountain sheep that carry very large horns.  Through the initiative of Frederick K. Vreeland, the Camp-Fire Club of America two years ago represented to the Government of Alberta the great desirability of enlarging this preserve, toward the north and west, the better to protect the mountain sheep and other big game of that region.  The suggestion was received in a friendly spirit, and there is good reason to hope that at an early date the enlargement will be made.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.—­This province has made an excellent beginning in the creation of game preserves.  The first agitation on that subject was begun in 1906, by two sportsmen whose names in connection with it have long since been forgotten.  On November 15, 1908, the Legislative Council of British Columbia issued a proclamation that created a very fine game preserve in the East Kootenai District, between the Elk and Bull Rivers and northwestward thereof to the White River country.  By an unfortunate oversight, the new preserve never has been officially named, but we may designate it here as