DINOSAUR TRACKS
The remains of British Columbia’s earliest inhabitants, who died several bundled thousand years ago, are to be preserved by official decree. Under an Order-in-Council the Government declares dinosaur tracks ami fossil bones of ichtyosaums found m the canyon of the Peace River last year to be historic objects. To remove or deface them in any way is a serious offence. These relics, discovered by railway engineers during a survey last summer, are. regarded by scientists as highly important, since they show the prehistoric monsters of the prairie.had penetrated into British Columb:by following the course of the Peac* River. No such remains had been found in British Columbia before, though the Alberta foothills are rick in such materiaL
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 11
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119DINOSAUR TRACKS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 11
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