Hunting

Species Deer Season Fall Coordinates 52°50€²N 110°52€²W Thanks to a continuing string of relatively easy winters, Alberta boasts a whitetail herd well in excess of a quarter million head and a hunter success ratio of more than 40 per cent. Not just any whitetails, mind you, but Dakota whitetails—those chunky, big-bodied bucks with a genetic propensity...

Species Deer Season Fall Coordinates 49°44€²52€³N 119°43€²02€³W Though we generally think of B.C. as a bastion of mule deer, wildlife biologists estimate that the province is also home to well over 65,000 white-tailed deer. While some of the animals are found in the northeastern Peace River area, most are spread out through the Kootenays and Okanagan...

Species Antelope, Bear, Elk, Moose, Turkey Coordinates 52° 22€² 31€³ N, 114° 55€² 18€³ W Location: Alberta Population: 6,900 If you like to wear Levis, riding boots and Stetsons and you enjoy rodeos, this is the place for you—and even more so if you’re into hunting. For starters, the ranch country to the east along the...

Species Deer, Duck, Elk, Goose, Moose, Partridge Coordinates 49° 58€² 22€³ N, 98° 17€² 31€³ W Location: Manitoba Population: 12,700 Nestled on Crescent Lake, a widening of the Assiniboine River as it meanders through the flat prairie country of southwestern Manitoba, Portage la Prairie is within easy reach of two shrines of North American waterfowl hunting:...

Species Deer, Elk, Goose, Grouse, Moose, Partridge, Pheasant Coordinates 53° 12€² 0€³ N, 105° 45€² 0€³ W Location: Saskatchewan Population: 34,100 For the hunter, prince Albert could not be better situated. Rolling grasslands with stands of second-growth bush stretch southward to provide great hunting for big Dakota whitetails and mule deer, while fields throughout the region...

Species Bear, Caribou, Deer, Duck, Goose, Grouse Coordinates 53° 55€² 1€³ N, 122° 44€² 58€³ W Location: British Columbia Population: 70,900 Located at the doorstep of the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench, the Prince George area looks more like the rolling, densely forested Canadian Shield than the heart of the B.C. Interior. But for big-game hunting in...

Species Bear, Caribou, Duck, Grouse, Moose Coordinates 62° 26€² 32€³ N, 114° 23€² 51€³ W Location: Northwest Territories Population: 18,700 Originally a 1930s gold rush town on the shores of Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife sprawls across the amorphous bedrock of the Canadian Shield, confident in its contemporary importance as Canada’s diamond-mining centre. International giants such as...

Species Bear, Caribou, Duck, Elk, Goose, Grouse, Moose Coordinates 60° 43€² 0€³ N, 135° 3€² 0€³ W Location: Yukon Population: 20,500 You could say that Whitehorse, located at mile 918 on the Alaska Highway, is a southern city of the North. Sure, it gets cold in winter, but come summertime, the weather is glorious and folks...

Species Bear, Caribou Coordinates 64° 19€² 5€³ N, 96° 1€² 3€³ W Location: Nunavut Population: 1,700 To the uninitiated, everyday life is quite different in the isolated hamlet of Baker Lake. Here in the barrens just short of the Arctic Circle, many of the comforts other Canadians take for granted are done without. And if the...