A few years back (in November) I drove the Trans Canada Highway from Winnipeg to Sault Ste Marie and saw three or four of them.Big suckers...in the middle of nowhere...just standing there near the trees only a few yards from the highway.It was as if they were daring you to do something to them.But Americans aren't allowed to bring firearms into Canada so they had nothing to fear.
I actually finally saw my first Northern Ontario moose just outside of Sudbury this January, when I was coming back to Ottawa after Christmas holidays.
The ironic thing is that we have a huge deer population here within the city limits, inside Ottawa's greenspace. So I lived up until university in the sticks and never saw anything bigger than a rabbit, and now that I live in the city, I can go to the mall and watch deer grazing just across the street by the side of the road. (Along with a lot of wild turkeys, and foxes, the occasional coyote, and if the rumours are true, once in awhile a wildcat of some kind.)
But Americans aren't allowed to bring firearms into Canada so they had nothing to fear.
Not from Americans, maybe. On the other hand, we know what they taste like. Hard luck for the moose.
I don’t see anything remotely strange about the story, but that probably means that I have been where I am too long. I have lived about three hours south-east of Sudbury for the past 14 years, and have probably seen over a dozen of them, although a solid majority of the sightings have been in Algonquin Park.
The closest I have been is probably about seven feet, after swerving into the other lane (my wife was probably about two or three feet away, and fortunately not awake enough to know what was going on).