The reindeer of the "barren ground" sub-species extended to the Arctic seacoast, and were at one time especially abundant in Labrador.

Here they were so tame, down to a hundred years ago, that fishermen were often known to shoot many of them from the windows of their huts near the seashore.

This type (_Rangifer tarandus arcticus_) might possibly be domesticated; not so the larger and much wilder Caribou woodland reindeer of the more southern and western parts of the Dominion, which dislikes the neighbourhood of man.

The elk or moose, east of the Rocky Mountains, was not found northward of about 50 deg.

to 55 deg.; but west of that range extended over all British Columbia and Alaska, in which latter country it grows to a giant size and develops enormous antlers.
Hearne says of the elk in northern Canada: "In summer, when they frequent the margins of rivers and lakes, they are often killed by the Indians in the water while they are crossing rivers or swimming from the mainland to islands, &c.