Will the caribou ever return to its old haunts in Northwestern Ontario?
Maybe? There are still a few in some parts of the northwest, and a few in the east, too.
Once upon a time, the caribou was the most common game animal in Ontario—ranging all the way from the far north to the shores of Lake Erie and Ontario.
Their population in Canada was estimated to be about 2.5 million. But by the 1960s, this had fallen to about 200,000.