Identifier: ontgamefisher0911onta (find matches)
Title: Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission, 1909-1911. --
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Game and Fisheries Commission Evans, Kelly
Subjects: Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: Toronto : L. K. Cameron, Printer to the King
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Law Foundation of Ontario & the Ontario Council of University Libraries

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creatures by the tracks ormarks of numerous varieties around the vicinity of the camp. At thepresent time no protection is afforded the reserve from October to May,and the very abundance of the big game and fur-bearing animals un-doubtedly offers very great temptation to the hunter and trapper who isaAvare of this fact. Indeed, investigation of such evidence as was obtain-able and the examination of nununous witnesses all tended to indicatethat advantage is taken of the unguarded condition of the reserve andthat considerable depredations in tluse directions are annually effected.In the winter, when the lakes are frozen over and the forests bare, travel-ling is very considerably facilitated, and it would appear that huntersand trappers alike enter the reserve, chiefly, perhaps, from the States,and shoot the moose and other game and capture the fur-bearing animalsto their hearts content, removing their trophies across the border Bear Lake Portage,on the way to theQuetico ForestReserve.
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Camp Eden Island, Lake Quetico. It is estimated that there is 20,000,000 It. of pine on this island. A Corner of LakeSeiggilagan.

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