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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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ment when it could put only78 men in line, and there are stories to the effect thatat times it was even weaker. The Grand Trunk Pacific, on which I was travelling,runs diagonally from Winnipeg to Edmonton throughcomparatively new country, and one saw from the car-windows occasional evidences of wild life. Now andthen coveys of prairie-chickens rose from beside thetrack, while the presence of many hawks indicated thatthe chickens did not always enjoy peace and safety evenduring the closed season. The number of hawks onesees upon these plains is, indeed, discouragingly largefrom the point of view of the preservation of small game,and serves to explain why, now and then, in the fallespecially, some of the States in the Mississippi Valleyare full of hawks, both big and little. Fortunately, hawksare not an unmixed evil, as they destroy great numbersof prairie-dogs, mice, and other vermin. Many of the small lakes bore coveys of ducks, someof them not yet able to fly, while now and again the
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THE MIDDLE PASSAGE 5 traveller beheld a musquash, that is, a muskrat, swim-ming through the water, usually with a bunch of grassor straw in his mouth. Some of the muskrat houses onthese lakes are as large as many beaver lodges I haveseen. A few of the lakes are so heavily impregnatedwith alkali that they are avoided not only by animals,but also by the ducks and other water-fowl. If time had permitted I should have liked to stopfor a day or two at Wainwright to visit the great Canadianwild-animal park. We saw the park from a distance,but could distinguish no animals. The park now con-tains the largest herd of American buffaloes in the world,about two thousand, to say nothing of moose, antelope,and other animals. The buffaloes represent, in the mainat least, the celebrated Pablo herd, which the UnitedStates parsimoniously permitted to be sold to Canadaand sent beyond our borders. Our train finally reached Edmonton at ten oclockin the evening, and, as this was to be my last chance atthe

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