Excerpt from Report of the Royal Commission, Appointed by Order-in Council: To Investigate the Possibilities of the Reindeer and Musk-Ox Industries in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions of Canada, May 20, 1919The Committee of the Privy Council have had before them a report, dated May 9, 1919, from the Minister of the Interior, stating as follows: Special attention has recently been directed to the potentialities of the Arctic and sub-arctic regions of Canada as a grazing country. It is represented that in these regions there is an abundant growth of vegetation in the summer, which forms nutritious food for grazing animals in winter as well as summer. It is estimated that there are at least a million square miles of such grazing grounds in Northern Canada. The winter climate of these areas is too severe for ordinary domestic cattle, but musk-ox and reindeer can graze there in the open all the year round. The dimensions of the reindeer industry in Lapland and in Siberia, and the great development of the reindeer herds of Alaska suggest that corresponding development can reasonably be anticipated with respect to Northern Canada. In this connection it is pointed out that herds of barren land caribou, aggregating, it is estimated, twenty or thirty million animals, frequent Northern Canada and that biologically, these animals are practically identical with reindeer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.