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Title: On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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ve never ceased to won-der how these birds, flying high in the air, can pick outa fish and so time their stoop as to strike it with suchcertainty. Toward the northern end of Davie Lake there Is anarrows, and on the slope of a hill on the right-hand sidewe saw a deserted cabin and the lonely grave of a youngtrapper named Allen Harvey, who in 1913 accidentallycut his knee with an axe and died soon after. Some miles below Davie Lake the river widens intoa dead slough that is sometimes known as Long Lake.In this section of the river a particularly broad expanseis called Red Rock Lake, from an immense red boulder.There were a few geese near the entrance to Red RockLake, but they were too wild to permit us to get closeenough for successful shooting. Farther on we disturbeda large flock of grebes, and we also saw a loon or two,and heard several more, while bullbats were almost con-tinually flying overhead, uttering their short, throatyroar. Shallow riffles were now a thing of the past on the
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GOLDEN DAYS ON CROOKED RIVER 65 Crooked, and from Davie Lake onward the river wouldbe navigable by boats of considerable size. The country from Davie Lake to McLeod Lake isgenerally more broken and is, in places, heavily timbered,for the most part with spruce, but with some small birchand poplar and a little fir, the last-mentioned tree, it issaid, not being found north of Fort McLeod. The spruceis generally larger than that about Summit Lake. Esti-mates have it that the timber about Davie Lake wouldrun thirty thousand feet to the acre. Realizing that this timber will become valuable whena railroad is built through the country, a great lumbercompany bought up a vast stretch of it. As I under-stand it, the tract was not bought as timber-land, butas low-grade land at a cheap price. Before making thepurchase the lumber people sent in a party of *cruiserswho sought out one of the few grassy flats in the wholeregion and took pictures of themselves: first, standingin the grass; second, knee

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