Bicycle a vehicle under Ontario Hunting Regs

[billbmcleod]

This is a take off from another thread about transporting a NR on a bicycle.
If anyone has copies of old Ontario Hunting Regs and can look back and see when the wording was changed to make bicycles powered vehicles it might be interesting for trivia sake. Back in the 60's when I first took the Hunter Safety course they gave us the little green book that had hundreds of pages and every statute there was regarding hunting. Oh how I wish I kept all that stuff but it like our old cars had little value at the time.
Have a look and see if you have anything.

Bill

 

[Bigbubba]

From current FWCA


“conveyance” means a vehicle, boat, or aircraft;

“vehicle” means any kind of vehicle that is driven, propelled or drawn on land or ice by any kind of power, including muscular power, and includes the rolling stock of a railway;


Loaded firearms in hunting areas
17 (1) A person who is in an area usually inhabited by wildlife or who is on the way to or from an area usually inhabited by wildlife shall not,

(a) have a loaded firearm in or on a conveyance or discharge a firearm from a conveyance, except if,

(i) the conveyance is a boat that is not a motorboat, or

(ii) the conveyance is a motorboat and the person is hunting migratory birds in accordance with the regulations under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 (Canada);

(b), (c) Repealed: 2009, c. 33, Sched. 22, s. 2 (10).

(d) in a part of Ontario prescribed by the regulations, have a loaded firearm in, or discharge a firearm in or across, a right of way for public vehicular traffic; or

(e) in a part of Ontario to which clause (d) does not apply, discharge a firearm in or across the travelled portion of a right of way for public vehicular traffic. 1997, c. 41, s. 17 (1); 2009, c. 33, Sched. 22, s. 2 (10).

Unmaintained rights of way
(2) Clauses (1) (d) and (e) do not apply to an unmaintained right of way unless the regulations provide otherwise. 1997, c. 41, s. 17 (2).

Person with impaired mobility
(3) Despite clause (1) (a), a person whose mobility is impaired in the manner prescribed by the regulations may have a loaded firearm in or on, or discharge it from, a vehicle or a motorboat that is not in motion, in an area described in subsection (1), if the person does so,

(a) in accordance with the authorization of the Minister; or

(b) in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations. 2012, c. 8, Sched. 16, s. 3; 2017, c. 2, Sched. 14, s. 7.

 

[billbmcleod]

Bigbubba that says it all about vehicles today but I was looking for something from the 80's or before.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

the rolling stock of a railway;

So, no more shooting buffalo out the window of the dining car ?

Grizz

 

[billbmcleod]

the rolling stock of a railway;

So, no more shooting buffalo out the window of the dining car ?

Grizz

A true story:
A fellow on track maintenance had just transferred locations on one of the major railroads in Northern Ontario. His first day out on the work train they were chugging along on a fall day and the train stops. A rifle shot rings out and the train moves ahead a bit and stops. The guy gets out and sees the boom on the train swinging over a dead moose being cleaned and proceeds to lift it onto the flatbed. As the train was stopped when the moose was shot we can only assume the shooter had exited the train to shoot. Probably against company policy but who other than the crew would know. Did they tag it? Probably as they still had to return to the work station and "Rail Kill" with a bullet hole would not have worked back then either.

 

[trevj]

A true story:
A fellow on track maintenance had just transferred locations on one of the major railroads in Northern Ontario. His first day out on the work train they were chugging along on a fall day and the train stops. A rifle shot rings out and the train moves ahead a bit and stops. The guy gets out and sees the boom on the train swinging over a dead moose being cleaned and proceeds to lift it onto the flatbed. As the train was stopped when the moose was shot we can only assume the shooter had exited the train to shoot. Probably against company policy but who other than the crew would know. Did they tag it? Probably as they still had to return to the work station and "Rail Kill" with a bullet hole would not have worked back then either.

LOL! I knew of a fella that used to shoot Pheasants off the steps of the caboose as the train made it's way along good country.

It all came to a halt when a trip and fall inside the caboose made a right mess out of the ceiling.... The management was NOT amused! Awfully hard to explain why there's a bloody great hole in the otherwise nice looking hardwood!

FWIW, the BC Regs this year specifically define and Electric Bicycle, in addition to them already being considered to be a motor vehicle, as they are not solely muscle powered.

 

[sam menard]

I was able to find a copy of the old Ontario Game and Fish Act RSO 1980 online. The definition of vehicle was the same then as it is today i.e.
“vehicle" means a vehicle that is drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, and includes the rolling stock of a railway;

 

[billbmcleod]

I was able to find a copy of the old Ontario Game and Fish Act RSO 1980 online. The definition of vehicle was the same then as it is today i.e.
“vehicle" means a vehicle that is drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, and includes the rolling stock of a railway;

Thanks, I guess I missed all that until I thought of a bicycle for today.