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[...][Rei]ndeer Meat Is Placed on Menu at Hotel Vancouver

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, while rusticating in the frost-bound regions around the North Pole, had nothing on the guests of the Hotel Vancouver in the matter of meat menu. Reindeer meat is now on the hotel's bill of fare.

Reindeer meat is not usually available for hotel purposes in British Columbia because the laws of the country make it illegal for reindeer to be killed for commercial purposes. Large numbers of reindeer are killed in Alaska and shipped to Seattle, however, and it was through that source that the hotel was able to put the meat on the menu.