The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 557, July 14, 1832
Chapter V. is devoted to _Field Sports in Canada_, and explains the choice
of dogs and guns, and the varieties of game. It notices the remarkable fact--that, notwithstanding 15,000 English agricultural labourers have arrived in Canada within the last three years, they no more think of shooting than if they were cockneys, and York, on the banks of a lake, and surrounded by a forest, is positively without anything like a regular supply of fish or game; yet it may be supposed that every twentieth of these men, when at home, was a poacher, or had in his days infringed on the game laws: "would a total repeal of the game laws produce anything of a similar effect at home?"