A Crown Game Preserve is an officially designated natural area in

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, "primarily for the purpose of sustaining populations of game animals". Hunting is not permitted or strictly regulated, making it akin to a

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. Crown Game Preserves are managed by the

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. There are currently fifteen Crown Game Preserves: * Brigden Crown Game Preserve *

Chapleau Crown Game Preserve The Chapleau Crown Game Preserve is a fur bearing animal preserve area in Ontario, Canada, north-east of Lake Superior. It covers some in the Algoma and Sudbury Districts, and is officially classified as a Crown Game Preserve by the Government of ...

* Conestogo Crown Game Preserve * Conroy Marsh Crown Game Preserve *

Dumfries Crown Game Preserve Dumfries ( ; sco, Dumfries; from gd, Dùn Phris ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth about by road from the ...

Geikie Island Crown Game Preserve Geikie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish geologist and writer * Georgina Geikie (born 1984), British sport shooter *James Geikie (1839–1915), Scottish geologist * John Cunningham Geik ...

Himsworth Crown Game Preserve Himsworth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Gary Himsworth (born 1969), English footballer * Harold Percival Himsworth (1905–1993), British scientist * Joyce Himsworth (1905–1989), British independent designer silversmith ...

Miner Crown Game Preserve A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used. In its narrowest sense, a miner is someone who works at the rock face; cutting, blasting, ...

Nipissing Crown Game Preserve Nipissing may refer to the following places in Ontario, Canada: * Lake Nipissing * The Nipissing First Nation ** Nipissing 10, reserve of Nipissing First Nation * Nipissing District, a census division ** West Nipissing, an incorporated municipalit ...

* Nopiming Crown Game Preserve *

Pembroke Crown Game Preserve Pembroke may refer to: Places Australia * Electoral division of Pembroke, an electoral division in Tasmania * Pembroke Land District, formerly Pembroke County, Tasmania Bermuda * Pembroke Parish Canada * Pembroke, West Hants, Nova Scotia * Pe ...

Peterborough Crown Game Preserve Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until 19 ...

Puslinch Crown Game Preserve Puslinch may refer to the following places: * Puslinch, Devon, England * Puslinch, Ontario Puslinch () is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, in Wellington County, surrounding the south end of Guelph. The main source of production is a ...

* Shirley's Bay Crown Game Preserve * Yarmouth Crown Game Preserve

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{{Reflist Natural areas in Ontario