The Barren Ground Grizzly Bear in Northern Canada

Authors

  • C.R. Harington
  • A.H. Macpherson
  • J.P. Kelsall

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3584

Keywords:

Grizzly bears, Animal distribution, Glacial epoch, Nouveau-Québec, Labrador

Abstract

Discusses distribution of the bears, and takes exception to certain statements of A.W.F. Banfield (No. 56712). His thesis of a recent eastward range extension as a continuation of the species' postglacial dispersal from Beringia is rejected. The range of the species is considered to have changed many times since the end of the Wisconsin glaciation; recent increase of bears in the east is probably a minor range fluctuation. Occurrence of grizzlies in northern Quebec - Labrador is not to be discounted, as Banfield does: several records of bears seen near the eastern end of the range since 1948 are cited.

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Published

1962-01-01