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Show ; . ' t " . , " . s j t - . 5 I - - . j I 5- " , v - - O Next to its 400,000 square miles of lake-studded forests, Ontario's wild animals are the greatest producers of travel business, busi-ness, attracting some 20,000,000 Americans each year. The Ontario department of travel reports the great majority of Americans want to see and photograph wild animals like the bears in the above picture. Thousands of tourists visit Ontario to see such animal antics as a husky (left) mothering a weak old moose. The baby moose, someday it will weigh 1500 pounds, was brought from the bush after its mother died in foaling. f i j f x , , - " i . i I f j f - - ' , " ( - --' . ' Gerry White (above) feeds a fawn as the two meet near a swimming hole in Algonquin Algon-quin Park, Ontario's 3000-square-mile game preserve. Ontario officials believe "wild salesmen" like this deer is the most important impor-tant part of their program of selling Americans Amer-icans to visit in Canada. Deer in the park graze by the roadsides without fear of tourists. I A. - -i i i h fi'? . If3 O Ontario's forests, almost twice the area of Texas is a cageless menagerie that attracts thouands of tourists. Teddy (above), 400-pound black bear at Fort William, Ontario, being put through his antics by Dorsen Klanac, is Ontario's most photographed bear. It's all right for Dorsen to put him through his antics, ' but it is not suggested for the tourist. O A yearling moose (above) waits on lake-shore lake-shore near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, for ang- ' lers to leave his food supply sup-ply of lily pads. Closed' seasons on moose hunting hunt-ing for the last three years has greatly increased in-creased population of this majestic animal. Tourists would rather hunt for pictures pic-tures like this than with a gun. - V - V J PS. ; V - i - O White tail deer (above), with antlers still "in velvet" and not fully grown, poses unscared for picture near Haliburton, Ontario. Twelve year old Lillian McCluskey's cub (right) stops hundreds of tourists at her father's crossroads store near Port Arthur, Ontario. Blackie is both a super salesman and con-1 sumer of ice cream cones. |
