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Title: The playgrounds of Canada; a short treatise on tourist, fishing and hunting resorts reached by the Grand Trunk Railway System
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Subjects: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Fishing Fishing Hunting Hunting Railroads Camps
Publisher: (Montreal): Grand Trunk Railway System, General Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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SOLID COMFORT FISHING CLUB, FRENCH RIVER 20 Grand Trunk Railway System
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A PAIR OF FIGHTERS, FRENCH RIVER THE TIMAGAMI REGION The Indians, centuries ago, perhaps, named the wonderfultranslucent lake that lies up here in New Ontario Timagami,which comes from the Indian word Timagamingue, and signifiesplace of deep water. Other lakes in the north may be as deep,but they were unable to sound them with the naked eye as theycould sound Timagami, whose waters are so crystal clear that onemay see bottom where it is very deep. That these little limpid, wood-girt seas should lie so long, almostat the heart of the continent, unexplored and practically unknownfor two hundred years, is due to the fact that until recently no-railway had pierced that wilderness. Now, however, the pathfinderhas passed that way, has opened a steel trail, so that during the fish-ing and shooting season of 1913 those who are tired of the old worntrails may have their first peep into this new sportsmans paradise.They are passing rapidly, these silent places. The march of 21 The Playgrounds o

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