Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/n2rodguni0cana Going Down the Mississaga River. yy By courtesy of Dr. N. A. Powell, aL at _ 7 Fs ia . x ee pe ni ? } ’ You see him along the barrel ore y WINCHESTER 22 AUTOMATIC RIFLE HE’S YOURS! HIS handy little ten-shot rifle, like history, repeats itself, the recoil being utilized to do the reloading. The novelty of its operation affords possibilities for practice and pleasure which no other “twenty-two” does. It makes an outing outfit complete. FREE: Send address for Catalogue of Winchester— the Red W Brand—Guns and Ammunition. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS Co. NEW HAVEN, CONN. If it were possible to make a better marine motor than the Cushman we should be doing it. Everything that equipment, skill | and years of experience can do to makeaperfect,small marine engine has been done, and to-day the CUSHMAN STANDS WITHOUT A RIVAL We are the only two-cycle engine makers in the world that use Com- pression Rings, to prevent leakage around the crank bearings. These rings effect not only the wor, but the very “fe of the machine. | Every part of our motors are made in our own factory and fitted and finished precisely as the works of a watch. For a Descriptive Catalogue Write Cushman Motor Co. LINCOLN, NEBR. 2010 N. St, GENERAL SALES AGENCIES. Seattle Hardware Co., Seattle, Wash. L. S. Cushman, Los Angeles, Calif. Denver Gas Engine & Appliance Co., J. N. Limeburner, at 84 Chambers St., New York City, N. Y. 1814 Arapahoe St.,Denver,Colo. | ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. I Waterman Marine Motors Unsurpassed for simplicity, reliability, durability. Few parts. Easily understood and most reasonable in cost. Model A 2 cylinder—2 cycle; built with the cylinders and head in one piece; no joints to leak. Cylinders quickly removeable. Ignition is jump spark with vibrator on spark coil and spark plug. Small plunger pump insures perfect circulation of water in cylinder—can be fitted to use as bilge pump. Can be re- versed instantly while, running, and runs with equal power in either direction. Equipped with rotary timer and multiple sight feed oiler. Thoroughly solves the problem ofeconomical power for motor boats. 6 h.p. 150 pounds. 10 h.p. 200 pounds. The best motor ever built, quality, price and equipment considered. ‘From start to finish” this Waterman Model X is a motor that will give the service expected every time, and the user will escape the many annoyances and troubles and disappointments so com- mon to gasoline marine motors. This is because of the correctness of the scientific principle it embodies; the exceeding simplicity; it is easily understood by even the inexperienced motorist; there are so few parts ; there is nothing to get out of order; and it is constructed from the very best materials, by thoroughly skilled mechanics, and every one is fully and specifically tested before shipment. Send for Catalogue and full descriptive matter, it ' pays to be on the right side. CAN OE MOTO RS The Waterman Canoe Motor is unapproachable in its extreme simplicity, strength of construction, and cer- tainty to deliver the power required. We make them in 1, 2, 3and 4 cylinders, and ship complete, ready for installation. If you have a Canoe send for our Catalog. OUTBOARD MOTO We have the only successful Outboard Motor on the market, a little 2 h.p. (40 lbs.) motor that you Ss Con attach to the stern post of your boat in 5 minu- tes, without any tools. Can be detached just as quickly. Giving satisfaction everywhere. Attached to row boats, dories, sail boats, etc. Just read the article in this magazine (written by one who has no connection with us), describing a trip through the wilds of Northern Ontario with one of our Outboard Motors. But send for the Catalog. We urge you to investigate the Waterman Marine Motors. You don't buy a motor every day—you don’t want to pay for mistakes. A Waterman Motor will not disappoint you. WATERMAN MARINE MOTOR CO. 1531 FORT STREET WEST, DETROIT, MICH, When writing Advertisers kindly mention “Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada,’* 2 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. RK © 3 @ RIFLES For Target and Sporting Purposes The best in the world. 303 Calibre, Military and Sporting Patterns. Special calibres to order. CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION ROSS RIFLE COMPANY Quebec When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Spor ts in Canada.”’ ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 3 THE AMERICAN NEW YORK TO PARIS RACER BUILDER BUYS A STERLING 60 H.P. 6 CYCLINDER Fh £ HEAVY DUTY ENGINE. Here is a photograph of the engine bought by Mr. Edwin Ross Thomas, Pres. of the E.R. Thomas Motor Co.,for his private yacht “Butterfly.” Study the cut well. as this engine marks a decided advancement in refinement of construction and represents the ideal marine engine for fast cruisers and heavy work- ing boats. gf The builder of the fam- ous Thomas Flyer is cer- ainly qualified to judge the merits of gasoline motors and his final selec- tion of the STERLING HEAVY DUTY ENGINE is an emphatic indorse- ment of its superiority. Built in three sizes—12. 40 and 60 h. p. Write for catalogue of complete Sterling line. =o . 7 2 Pp: 3 pace ieee eal Engines, 25, 4o, 45, 55 and Sterling Engine Co., 8uffalo, \.Y, Member National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers. EALERS : N York: Edge & Purdie, 136 Liberty St. Boston: Walter J. Forbes, 220 Congress St. 7% Portland, Oregon: Beeman-Spaulding Co., 71 Front St. Kingston, Ont.: Kenneth A. Cameren. Norfolk, Va. : Wallace Bros. Baltimore, M. D.: Nilson Yacht Co. NEW : ? Catch ’em and Hold em. Lyman Recelver Sight | | (snes (Patented July 16th, 1907) is absolutely reliable. Never fails to hold the game. Positive in action, easy to set, will not get out of order. Made in all sizes to catch any- thing from a rat to a bear- Send for Catalogue ONEIDA COMMUNITY, Ltd. Nisgara Falls, Ontario ¥ we A Greenhart Trout Rod At present made for the Winchester 1905 will be sent FREE to anyone sending 10 and 1907 models. SO The graduated scale on slide and method of sudoscrip eee stance et ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA Send for Catalogue. ; Address The Lyman Gun Sight Corporation W. J. TAYLOR, MIDDLEFIELD, CONN., U. S. A. | Publisher, Woodstock, Ont, ee : oe When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Spor ts in Canada. 4 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Be Your Own Taxidermist Mount Your Own Fine Specimens of Birds, Animals and Game Heads Sportsmen here is something that willinterest you. We can teach you by mail in your own home to mount all kinds of birds, animals, tan skins, make rugs, robes, etc. We have taugnt 15000 of the leading sportsmen of the country to do their own Taxidermy work, and we can teach you too if you will give us the oppor- tunity. Our course is not an ordinary cheap booklet, but a complete scientific treatise, prepared by expert Taxidermists, and has becn proven by seven years of success; yet the lessons are so exceedingly simple that anyone can learn quickly and easily. Our school is recommended by this magazine and all leading sportsmen and Taxidermists. You can save your own trophies,decor- ate your home and den and make big profits with Taxidermy. Enroll in our “School for Sportsmen by Sportsmen” and let us teach you this splendid business. : Let us send you free our fine new catalog, hundreds of testimonial letters, and a copy, oan niki peencaglh Rae of the Taxidermy magazine—all free for the asking. Get these, they will interest you. successful students at work. Write to-day. N. rill SCHOOL | OF TAXIDERMY, BOX 10- X, OMAHA, NEB Spree com sot Sore So en a pave Perm ie * ‘dn RRP > te —_ NOW 18S THE TIME to place your order for a CANOE or SKIFF WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. The Lakefield Canoe Building and Manufacturing Co., Limited, Lakefield, Ont. 16 ft. Painted Canoe $28.00 Varnished Canoe $32.00 We have a stock of 500 high-grade Rowboats, Canoes, Sailing Dinghies; Cat-boats and Launches, new and second-hand to choose from. Branch boathouses at Royal Muskoka Hotel, Stanley House, C. N. O. Railway Station, Lake Joseph, Port Carling Muskoka, The Penetanguishene Hotel and Sans Souci Hotel Georgian Bay. Send for Catalogue. The H.L. Bastien, Boat and Canoe Works, Hamilton, Canada SS SE SS SRST SS No More Tangled Hooks | The Anticussin Hook Holder keeps hooks and snells in oa perfect condition. Absolutely prevents tangling. Holder with full set of hooks can be carried in the pocket with- out snagging. Hooks inserted or removed instantly. M A R | N E E N G | N E Entire assortment of hooks always in plain sight for New 1908 ae: ra Saale and dena) so sae Eaves open High rade 2-cycle engine for use in Canoes, Rowboats atbottom Boats, River quick selection. - Eliminates tackle box. rite, Sl ekt Tenders, Hunting and Fishing Beate and ug to 20 ft. Pleasure and Speed Tanai The Anticussin Hook Holder ort tea — is made of non-corroding ‘ 2h > B 4 _* _| metal, highly nickled, Size 5 —— WS | 3 in. by 61-2 in. Will ab- solutely prevent hooks from ee ae ts with SING rusting. Saves twice its cost Mi and Fresh Water Boat Fittings, ry) $43.75. Salt Water Boat Fittings, $5 extra. Swiftest, most powerful, efficient and reliable c engine of its size on earth. Simple, compact, | name. Money b.ck if not strong, durable, reversible, economical and safe, _ _| entirely satisfied. Anyone can iustall and run it. Drives boat 5 to 8 | . milesan hour. Sold from factory to user on 30 day's ape SPORTSMAN’S SPECIALTY Co- proval and 5-year guarantee. Prompt shipment. ae Haan | i: ee Belle Isle Motor Co., ept.§4 Detroit, Mich- in hooks the first season. Sent prepaid upon receipt of 50c and your dcaler’s ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 5 To enhance the pleasure of your Summer ‘Outing take along a few Van Horne Cigars They are recognized to be the best value made in Canada at 10 cents. Harris, Harkness & Co., Makers, Montreal. Beaver Motors WORK LIKE BEAVERS. 28 H. P. four cylinder vertical. SIZES: 12h.p. and 18 h.p. horizontal opposed Normal speed 1000 revolutions per minute. HIGH SPEED HIGH GRADE LOW PRICE Beaver Mfg. Co. tiinosee wit Gold Medal Camp Furniture Mfg. Co. Racine, Wis., U.S. A. WE manufacture a full line of Camp Fur- niture and complete camp outfits. Our new catalog showing new goods just out— free. We also have for distribution the following Sportsmen’s Manuals, each containing 136 pages, nicely bound :—The ‘Campers Manual. The eS Manual and the Sports- man’s Manual. They are worth at least 50 cents each; only 30 cents for the three, or ro cents for any one delivered to you by mail. Postage prepaid. SFT. S\N. LONG 2 BF sano When writing Advertisers kindly mention ‘“‘Rod and Gun and Motor Spor ts in Canada.’’ ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Repeating Shotgun Becausé it combines guaranteed shooting ability with the sim- plest and strongest repeating mechanism. -handles quicker and shoots harder than any other repeating gun. The Marlin solid top prevents back; the side ejection of shells allows instant repeat shots. closed-in breechbolt keeps out rain, leaves, twigs and sand that clog up other repeaters. The double extractors pull any shell, two special safety’ devices prevent the explosion of a cartridge while action is un- locked, and the automatic recoil lock removes all danger from hang-fires, making it the safest breech-loading gun built. From the light-weight (6% Ibs.) 16-gauge to the new 734 Ibs, 12-gauge, snow and sleet, and the dirt, balanced guns, especially designed Send 3 stamps postage for our complete 136-page catalog of all Harlén repeat- ers, rifles and shotauns. Write to-day. ' 67) Willow St. powder and gases blowing ~ The” alin reépeaters in all models, grades and styles are well-made, finely. = for hard shooting and quick handling. lhe Marlin Firearms Co, ‘ NEW HAVEN, CONN. 9 we SIGN ors E SIGN ora. acting 7 * oe 3-in-One is best for oiling lock, trigger, ejecter and every action part perfectly— makes everything work right at the right time vents breakage. Contains no grease or acid and wil 3-in-One enters the pores of metal and for covering that positively prevents rust in any cli burnt powder leaving barrel bright and shiny, wooden stock. Read what old timers say. a) a4 a i i i iS Mow: JOwe, e€us O3wi.cow 3° ON™ Wingo Ivoigh ARMS REE San ee “Fine ==> _ fcr conditions. good condition as when I left.” ha its merits. As arust preventative, we doubt anywhere near it.” TYPEWRITERS BICYCLES BS) TALKING MACHINES CANES fz) RAZORS STROPS [3p A FREE PANY, 55 New St., New York City, GwcoLe oe SINIHD A ae a COMPANY <| anes a FOR SRATES Golrciues ft 5 > “I have used 3-in-One on military equipment for seven years, of the condition of my rifles has always been ‘EXCELLENT,.’” F. S. VAN GORDON, Keeps the mechanism clean and pre- Inot dry out,cake,gum or collect dust. ms a clean, delicate moisture proof mate. 3-in-One cleans out residue of Prevents leading and pitting. Polishes Inspector’s report Capt. Sth Inf. Ohio Nat. Guard, Warren, Ohio. “T used 3-in-One on my recent trip around the world, hunting in Japan, China, The Malay Peninsular, India and other points where guns are By carefui treatment and the use of 3-in-One, exposed to severe climatic I brought my guns home in as DALL DE WEESE, Canyon City, Colo, ‘ “We have used 3-in-One oil in our factory for years and cannot speak too highly of if any other compound on earth can come HUNTER ARMS CO.,, Fulton, N. ¥. Try 3-in-One yourself on your own gun and be glad you did, Write at once for liberal free sample and booklet. THREE-IN-ONE OIL COM- ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Northwestern Ignition Batteries Absolutely Reliable, Best and Hottest park. A TIP TO —A|_ travellers Why Pay $2.00 for a stuffy room in a second-class hotel, or $4.00 for a cheerless apartment in a first-class hotel In Chicago when you can secure comfort- able lodging, supplemented by a Turkish Bath, a scientific rub, a shower and a plunge in the finest swimming pool in America for One Dollar Moral: When in Chicago stop at The New Northern Baths and Hotel SYLVESTER J. SIMON, PRES. Northwestern Storage Battery Co.. 14 QUINGY ST., NEAR STATE 448 Milwaukee Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. IN THE VERY HEART OF THE CITY view Electric Searchlights More powerful than acetylene. No bad smell. Will not blow out. On and off with the snap of a switch. Write for Catalogue “R” This New German Ignition Battery I \ | 7 i f é Gave such remarkable results last year that we have obtained the Canadian nghts. Gives Hot Spark Like a Storage Battery NO MORE IGNITION TROUBLES New process. New Chemicals. Bettcr Results. There have been no improvements or change in manufacture made in Dry Cells until the German Chemistry (who lead the World in Chemistry) brought out this new Dry Cell. IT GIVES RESULTS. Write for prices. If your dealer does not keep them we will sell direet. The Canadian Electric Novelty Co. 334 Spadina Ave., Toronto. When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Qun and Motor Sports in Canada. 8 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Distinctive New Wall Papers Never before have we had such an at- tractive stock of New Wall Papers to select from. The points of merit are numerous, but originality of design, great beauty of coloring and smallness of price are among the attractive features. They are the latest productions of the leading English, French, German and American manufacturers, and with few exceptions the patterns and colorings are confined exclusively to ourselves. Samples will be forwarded free of Pie charge toany address. Please state for | ee rots CPG and price desired. William English Canoe Co. Ae PETERBOROUGH, ONT. The W. J. Bolus Co., Limitea Send for Catalo gue. 245 Yonge Street, TORONTO. CONVINCING REASONS Why the WITCH-ELK Hunting Boots are Best For Sportsmen En gineers & Miners They are the lightest boot on the market, quali- ty and material considered. They are made to fit and wear. They are practically water proof—if THIS BOAT FOLDS INTO A PACKAGE. It's Solid and Stiff when in use—collapsible and quickly made portable. Carried by hand or ina buggy. Tempered, galvanized, light . Iw taken care of. ‘Phere ap ai steel ribs give both strength and lightness. properly take n care of. ’ Phere are no nails Is a revelation in boat Coiistenctbre Non- or anything to gall the feet. They will not sinkable. Puncture proof. Norepairs. No harden. cost for storage. Wears longer than a wooden THEY WILL PLEASE YOU. boat. We make all sizes and styles for every baie wii dealer to rie eS purpose. Our catalogue—ioo engravings — Ask your dealer to order you a pair or sent on receipt of 6 cts. write for catalogue O. Witchell-Scheill Company DETROIT, MICH. Manufacturers in Sporting and Athletic Footwear. KING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 465 Lake St., Muskegon, Mich., formerly Kalamazoo. When writing Advertisers kindly mention ‘(Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.” ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 6 Majestic Has No Superior Indispensable and unequalled for Automobiles, Motor Boats and Household Uses. MANUFACTURED IN CANADA BY MAJESTIC POLISHES, Limited 575 Yonge Street, TORONTO, CANADA When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Spor ts in Canada.” 10 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. fection MARINE MOTORS ss sg and your boat deserve a good engine. You have probably seen enough poor engines to know that such an engine can rob one of all the pleasure and add much to the expense of motor boating. H In buying a Perfection you have the assur- ance that you get positively the simplest, ? =) § Ab quietest, most powerful marine engine built--bet- ter finished and better fitted than any other engine- COMPLETE REVERSIBLE—NO CRANKING no valyes nor cams—all parts interchangeable, highest grade material hroughout. Our broad GUARANTEE covers replacement of any engine that does not give complete satisfaction, and is backed up by one of the largest and most complete factories in the business. Can you afford to take chances or buy on any other terms? Write for our hand- some catalog of all sizes. CAILLE PERFECTION MOTOR CoO. 1322 SECOND AVENUE. DETROIT, MICH. ; Nothing Useless Put In Nothing Useful Left Out This accounts for our success. Buffalo Marine Motors are designed and built to give satisfaction and do tt. Write for 1908 catalogue and get } tp18e 3 << posted as to new sizes and styles. Our New Slow Speed Engine fills a long felt want. BUFFALO GASOLINE MOTOR CO. 1218-30 Niagara St. BUFFALG, N.Y. | SS~S ~ VOSS =] © FS GSSVSFBSSOS SE SSRVSV*SEBSVSISVAISVBADS, a ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. II =N I We wish to dispose of 500 Tents of each of the following sizes, and offer them at the undernoted very low prices. These tents are made from a strong quality of white cotton duck. 7 ft.x7 ft. Wall Tents $4.95, Poles and Pegs Extra $1.10 SftxlO ft. “ $6.10, Ke $1.25 10 ft. x12 ft. s $7.35, i $1.40 Terms strictly nett cash with order. List of catalogues issued—A. Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. B. Automobile and Gas Engine Material. C. Motor Boat Fittings and Supplies. D. Tools and High Grade Line of Machinists Supplies. F. Sporting Goods. T. W. BOYD & SON 27 Notre Dame Street West MONTREAL ROSS CANOES THE ACME OF PERFECTION. Safe, Staunch and Reliable. The Canoe for the long trip. SS, AN it | A a 3 Our 1908 models of prospecting and pleasure canoes are now ready for delivery. A large stock to choose from which will satisfy the purchaser under all conditions. Don’t fail to send for catalogue. The J. H. Ross Canoe Co. ORILLIA, ONT. When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. 12 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. TEMAGAM! UNEXCELLED FISHING SHOOTING. Three beautiful Hotels and Steamboat Service afford ideal accommodation. az CANOES, GUIDES AND CAMP OUTFITS SUPPLIED Write for Booklet The O’Connor Steamboat and Hotel Co., Limited TEMAGAMI, ONT. If you desire to make a reputation as an expert cocktail mixer, buy the ‘“‘Club’’ brand, follow directions, and your friends will wonder where you gained the art. Many a cocktail you have drunk and complimented your host for his art of mixing—the truth is you had a “Club Cocktail.’’ it merely required a little ice to cool it. You can do it just as well. G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors 29 Broapway, NEw YORK, N. Y. MARTFORD, CONN. LonDon The Largest Manufacturers in the World | in our Line ca Our Goods stand the Test me00 4 Pica ¥ No: OiTcy, ENov™ The Patent Unbreakable‘ Silk Bound Rod TRADE MARK O8080060800000000E THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN FISHING RODS. Silk bound, waterproof, Split Cane Rodin Trout and Bass. Strongest rod in the world. Every dealer and fisherman should see this rod. Price is most reasonable and within the reach of all, Made only by us in our factory at Toronto The Allcock, Laight G- Westwood Go., Limited 78 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 13 ooo High Gun at a Tournment or Club Shoot, is pretty sure to be a PARKER. Why? Because it is generally found in the hands of the best shooters--men who know a good gun and will buy no other. Send for illustrated catalogue. N. Y. Salesrooms PARKER BROS. 32 Warren Street Meriden, Coan. The Oldest Gun Builders in America. It’s m™ a name AM that’s known wher- ever in Ameri- ca there’s a fish or fisherman to be found. 2 ; We are * cS Designers and Makers of High-Grade ishing Tackle a= of genuine merit—Reels, Baits, Flies and amen Hf S Sundries of approved worth. A Pflueger product is made for use—not merely for sale. Our patented novelties — and they are legion for every style of fishing —are practical helps—not gimcracks Learn about them from your Deale: The Enterprise Mfg. Co., AKRON, OHIO, U.S. A. © 14 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. em ] HB DBWEO1 DFHOVSBDTBVWNWBTSWBS VSEWVBIBwSIESVsesseoesowwsse rHE J. H. CURTISS Co. new York Marine Closets Etc. Prompt Deliveries Guaranteed é ¢ ‘ Lavatories ‘ é ‘ é ’) ¢ 7 =e oe o. @ 328 02 28 8 2 28 2060863333308: eeuee3eesn QOD OOOO 8082 O SUS SSS SS EET ee, What Would Gamp Be Without Goffee? In camp it always tastes better than a home, even though it is often pretty black and sometimes a bit muddy. The percolator at home makes better coffee—coffee that is more healthful—that we all admit. And now comes the first CAMP PFRCOLATOR, one made com- pact like your nesting outfit—made even smaller than the camp pot you have been carrying, with bail for use over the camp fire, and with folding handle—doesn't that sound good to you? A percolator doesn’t boil over, doesn’t spoil the coffee if left to boil, and you don’t have to get it off the fire at a prescribed moment. This percolator doesn’t need minute description—it embodies the prince ipal and is made following the particular style of the famous ‘*Meteor” which has been universally used for years. The one principal feature of this percolator is that it is made for yow in camp, oren route, wherever you carry your own compact outfit and brew your own beverage. All first-class sporting goods dealers either have this percolator, or can order it for you. If you are not near a dezler send to us direct—by mail. MERIDEN COMPANY, INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., Successor. 218 ‘Fifth Avenue, Corner 26th Street NEW YORK. We specially design Prize ete and Trophies for | Trap Shoots, Casting Tournaments, Racing, Etc. When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sparks in Canada. _ ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 15 S &PB 6 h. p. 2-Cycle 98 ° e MARINE ENGINE ~~ The ‘simplest, strongest and most durable Marins Engine ever put on the market at this price. Noiseless—no cranking—easy to start—easy to operate—nothing to get out of order. NOBEL’S BALLISTITE and EMPIRE POWDER—Win High Honors Three port designs. Jump spark ignition. . : Float feed carburetor. Smooth running Economizes fuel ewest moving Parts Automatic water circulation No “back firing” Will not “‘skip” No packing to BALLISTITE won the Grand American Handi- cap, while the high average for nearly all the events was captured by Empire Shooters. Hi Hpi ont - At the Dominion Trap Shooters Association 1g ee etaeas AES Tournament held in Toronto, August 7th, 8th and gth, EMPIRE won first and third high average on Reverse clutch or the third day. solid propeller 4 Every engine tested over and above rated h. p. Materials and workmanship guaranteed At the Clinton Ont., Tournament, October 3oth, Empire tied for second high average in the live bird events. GIVE EMPIRE A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED Write for our handsome catalof going into the de- tails of its superior advantages over other engines ofits class. If your dealer won’t supply you write us HAMILTON POWDER CO. Smith & Baldridge Machine Co. 75 Amsterdam St., Detroit, Mich, U.S.A. 4 HOSPITAL St. MONTREAL. Territory open to all responsible agents alive to BRANCH .OFFICES: a quality proposition. Toronto, Ont. Winnipeg, Man. Victoria, B. C- Hamilton, Ont. Vancouver, B. C. Kenora, Ont- 2: H. P., $ 70.00 4 H.P., 90.00 GH. PS EEO Complete Outfits. Send for Catalogue GUARANTEE MOTOR CO. 67 Bay N., Hamilton, Can. LF alm) \ ENGINES OF QUALITY Unexcelled, up-to-date, variable speed Marine Motors Easy to operate, reliable, powerful, durable. 2and4cycle. 3, 5, ro and 20H.P. MARINE POWER CO. 667 Walker Street, MILWAUKEE, WIS. ty f) 16 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. SEND US YOUR ADDRESS FOR OUR New Catalog A useful companion for your camping party is a 30 cenit tin of CALVERT’S 20% Carbolic Soap. Many are the uses of this powerful antiseptic soap, but you will perhaps most appreciate now the protection it affords against mosquitoes and black flies, the safeguard. it provides against infection, and the convenience it offers for making an antiseptic solution. Guns and Camping Goods. Oldtown Canoes 15 and 16 feet LL te The H. H. Kiffe Co. neon” Ask yonr druggist for it. sr write direct to FP. C. Calvert & Co .349 Dorchester-St. West, Montreal. Booklet describing this and other specialities free. Guaranteed for One Year. | Yours for One Dollar. Queen’s Hotell : TORONTO, CANADA One of the largest and most comfortable hotels in the Dominion of Canada, and, being adjacent to the Lake, commands a splendid view of Torento Bay and Lake Ontario. It is well knownas one of the coolest houses in summer in Canada, and is elegantly furnished throughout. Rooms en-suite, with bath rooms attached. THE QUEEN'S has been liberally patronized by royality and nebility during their visits to Toronto, and among those who have honored it with their patronage are: His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia; their Royal Highnesses, Prince Leopold, Prince George, Princess Louise, and the Duke and Duchess ef Connaught; the Marquis of Lorne; the Earl and Countess of Dufferin; the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne; Lord and Lady Stanley, of Preston : Earl and Countess of Aberdeen. THE QUEEN'S is furnished with all the latest modern improvements. 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Cabot discovered for England the Grand Banks fisheries, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, although the Bretons and Basques were the first.to derive much benefit therefrom. Cartier had sailed up the wide gulf and river of St. Lawrence and claimed the territory inthe nameof the King of France. His terrible experience of a rigorous winter at Stadacona disappoint- ed the hopes of his country for a colony in that wild land. The French had earlier ventured a settlement on the coast of Florida but the Spaniards, gaining knowledge of the attempt, marched thither in considerable force and utterly annihila- ted the little band of pioneers. Then for years war waged at home and all thought of dependencies abroad was for- gotten. In the European wars, however, there had arisen a soldier of much courage and resource, who was to carry the name of France through many a mile of forest and swamp, over many a league of lake and river—Samuel de Champlain. This young man so far showed his ability in military matters as to win the personal esteem of the French King, who at the close of the wars gave him a position at Court. Alife of pleasure and _ gaiety at Fontainebleau, was not to the taste of the erstwhile soldier, used to more ard- uous duties. Born in the little seaport town of Brouage, on the Bay of Biscay, he naturally felt a yearning for the sea, though his father, himself a naval officer, desired him to enter the army. He ac- ceded to his parent’s wishes but never forgot his early tendency and soon evin- ced a disposition to roam at large. Fired undoubtedly by the stories of the great conquests of Spain in America and the ventures of his own countrymen in the New World he had a strong desire to enter upon a similar life. Fortunately at that time asmall expedition was being got ready to sail tothe West Indies. He obtained leave to accompany it and here for two years or more he sailed about, ex- ploring, surveying and gathering all in- formation possible of the country. They voyaged as far south as Panama, then returned to France. The life in all its varied aspects took a firm hold upon the adventurous spirit of Champlain and from the day of his first sailing he never wholly forgot or gave up the love of the western sea. Shortly after this he joined an expedi- tion to the land of Cartier’s voyages made years before. In two small vessels, one | @ ce) of twelve, the other of fifteen tons they crossed the Atlantic and sailed into the broad Gulf of St. Lawrence and up the noble river of the same name. Skirting the northern shore with its huge basaltic cliffs hanging high above the tiny craft or passing leagues of silent impenetrable forests of spruce and fir, they sailed along day after day. Unlike Cartier’s time the shoresseemed devoid of humanlife though birds and beasts were abundant on all sides. Coming to the high and massive rock of Stadacona the military eye of Champlain saw in its seemingly unscal- able heights, its towering invulnerability a fortreess worthy indeed to guard and to hold the gateway of so noble a river. There and then he evolved in his mind his life’s work and planned schemes that were never to leave his tireless brain till there came either accomplishment or death. From that moment he was ever moved by the mighty, yet silent forces of the wilderness. On landing they were received by no demonstration of voices, hostile or other- Wise, not a solitary being did they see, nor the sign of one. The large settlement described by Cartier had disappeared leaving no trace behind. Again the voy- agers took to the vessels and sailed far- ther through the great regions of water and torest land. They arrived at Hoche- laga. Here to their surprise and pleasure they saw a settlement of the natives of the country and immediately starteda business in trade and barter with the aborigines. Champlain with a mind for discovery and exploration, set off up the river in asmall boat witha couple of Indians as guides. He got as far as the St. Lovis Rapids where, unable to pass or portage, he had to give up and return to his comrades and the ships. Before the coming of the ice and snow they weighed anchor and dropping down the miles of river turned, at length, their prows for far-off home. The Breton and Basque fishermen had spread stories of a land, rich in promise, which the natives called ‘‘Acadie,” mean- ing a ‘‘region of plenty.’’ Several adven- turers had gone out to this country and returned with rare cargoes of furs. The stories excited a good deal of wonder and speculation till at last a large expedition ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA was got together for the joint purpose of forming a colony and starting a trading association with the Indians. This party, under the leadership of a gentlemen, De Monts by name, accompanied also by the indomitable Champlain, sailed in the year 1604 and landed on the south coast of Acadie at a place they called Cap le Heve, now Liverpool Harbor. They proved the stories true by finding all sorts of game and fur-bearing animals. As De Monts had been given a monopoly of the whole of the trade by Royal Char- ter he immediately set about finding a place for his headquarters. Shortly after their arrival they had been joined bya ship carrying supplies and materials for colonization. This ship, under command of one Pontgrave, who was afterwards to play a prominent part in the country’s history, after discharging her cargo sail- ed almost immediately back to France, while De Monts and Champlain followed out their original intention of a tour of exploration. They doubled Cape Sable entering St. Mary’s Bay, then traversing the Bay of Fundy which they called La Baie Fran- cais, they entered a fine sheltered harbor. One of the chief members of the expedi- tion, the Baron de Poutrincourt was so taken up with the beautiful aspect of this harbor, the quietness, the gentle sloping hills and pleasant woodlands, that he begged permission to plant a little colony on the spot which he called Port Royal. The party continuing on their way sailed around the head of the Bay of Fundy coasting the shore. They came to the mouth of the River St. John, which Cham- plain explored some distance taking many surveys. Arriving at Passamaquoddy Bay they found the St. Croix River and. here, upon a small almost barren island they erected their fort, the nucleus ofa. colony. Before winter had arrived Cham- plain set out in a small pinnace to range the western coast continuing making surveys and charts of the harbors. , He found and entered to some length the river Penobscot. On his return the little party were preparing for the approaching severity of winter by building andstrength- ening their houses and chopping firewood. They had been told of the hardships that must be endured and were bravely op- % - $2 Boa en) ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. timistic. Pout- rincourt had sailed for France leaving the little colony at the number ofseven- ty-nine. Onland- ing an attempt had been made to plant some seeds of grain and vegetables for the ensu- ing winter but it was too late to expect any growth and the attempt proved futile. They had built inside the palisaded fort be- sidesanumberof houses in the form of asquare, a governor’s residence and a small chapel. U nf ortunately the island was a mere grassy up- heavel at any time, no trees, no water, for which necessar- ies they had to travel to the main land. Its site was chosen because of its defensive posi- tion from hostile natives, but hap- pily they were never troubled from that quarter. Being without much fresh food, when winter had settled fully upon them, they developed the scurvy in violent form and, despite the hopes, the cheerfulness and activity of the governor and Champlain, their spirits dropped to a low ebb. The winter proved a trial, the like of which they had never dreamed. Many succumbed todisease and when the soft winds of Spring and the warmer sun melted the intense frost about them, only forty-four of the original number crawl- Tart CHAMPLAIN’S MONUMENT AT QUEBEC. ed weakly forth to give thanks for the return of life and hope. When the ice had left the harbor, they embarked in their remaining boats for Port Royal across the bay, taking everything port- able with them and dismantling the fort. In June, Champlain, eager for the chance of exploration, advised a trip down the southern coast of the main land and both he and De Monts set sail coast- ing the rocky barren shores of New Eng- land, until the dangers of reefs and shoals 112 and the hostility of the several bands of indians they met drove them back to Port Royal. During that summer a staunch friendship was made with the Micmac Indians which lasted to the very end of French rule in that country. De Monts presently sailed home to France leaving the colony in charge of Pont- grave who had arrived with another ship load of necessaries. When the next winter came with its cold icy winds trom the ocean and its heavy zero weather, the colonists were a little better prepared for it and the Indians kept them with frequent supplies of fresh food, but even then they were hard beset with the severity of the season and hailed with delight and gratitude the coming of the spring. With the warmer weather came also ships and news from France which much enlivened the pioneers. The Baron de Poutrincourt had arrived bring- ing with hima gentleman, one Lescarbot, whose graphic pen has left us some inter- esting records of his sojourn in Acadie. Port Royal was now ina better condition. A large field wastilled and grain and vegetables of all kinds planted anda good crop reaped. Altogether the colony was entering upon a period of prosperity and happiness. Voyages of discovery and exploration were undertaken, gener- ally under the leadership of the irrepres- sible Champlain. Summer passed merrily by ; autumn gave of her wealth of fruit and produce and when winter’s chill came heavily upon them they were undisturbed, being prepared in every capacity. In fact the winter of 1606—07 was the most cheerful of all or any during the old French regime. Champlain, his heart and soul in the undertaking had inaugurated a society of friends which he called ‘‘The Order of Good Times” for the mutual and social harmony of the little band and pleasantly passed the long cold hours of the season of frost. A sudden ending awaited the first colony ot Acadie. One day there came a ship from home with fatal news. The promotors of the settlement had decided to abandon the effort of colonization. The experiment was deemed a failure. Very reluctantly the settlers of Port Royal saw their goods shipped away into the hold of the vessel and beheld the SAM Cet! bil tow ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. work of years of toil and patience made level with the ground. Champlain, with Poutrincourt and Lescarbot finished a survey of Canseau Harbor which they had undertaken, thenin the month of October, 1607, with drooping spirits they bid adieu to the scene of months of labor and distress yet which, withal, they were loth to leave. Hardships and disappoint- ment to these men of iron were but as thistles to a scythe in a grain field to be cut down relentlessly betore the march of stern resolution and need. Champlain had but tasted of the toil and he yearned for more. It came. Next year,doubtless by his own efforts and persuasion, he was given power to found another colony in New France, with his old companion, Pontgrave, as chief trader. He had set his mind on Stadacona, the place of his first visit as a site. His plans had lain dormant all - these years and they had now, since he was to have command, only to be called into practice. With a heart full of the joy and expectancy of the explorer and pion- eer, he set sail from the seaport of Hon- fleur, France, on April fifth, 1608, Pont- grave with his supply vessels having preceded him by eight days. After an un- eventful voyage, he sailed into the broad reach of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and headed for the river. He had appointed to meet Pontgrave at Tadousac and when he arrived at that harbor he was disa- greeably surprised to find his friend in the hands of a number of Basque traders, who, resenting the monopoly of the new- comer, had seized his person and effects and were deciding ona plan of procedure when Champlain arrived. The latter, with his usual tact and forbearance, res- cued his companion from the freebooters, and sailed on upthe wide avenue of water. The ship was one of those bluff-bowed high-sterned little craft that have made famous the names of the great navigators of three hundred years ago. Large square sails bellied out from long bending yards and as she sailed, not fast but steadily, up the gleaming river, frightening away clouds of water-fowl by the ripple and swirl of her low and broad cut-water, she . must have presented a quaint figure in the midst of that sylvan solitude, un- — = ee CHAMPLAIN DISCOVERS broken save by the splash of the leaping dolphin or the defiant eagle’s scream. Perhaps from amoug the dense forests of fir that clothed long stretches of the river’s shore, the colonists, from their ship, could hear the bellow of the lordly moose, perhaps see the great branch-antlered bull caribou leading his numerous harem . to fresher feeding grounds, afar in the ample waste of woodland. t« Perched high up on the poop or rear- deck of the little ship stood Champlain, soldier, sailor, scientist, historian and now the parent of an embryo colony. With one hand on the tiller he gave in- structions to the helmsman at his side, for only he knew the tortuous windings of that dangerous coast. Spread out on the deck at his feet was doubtless the chart of the river made from his former voyage. He watched the channels of approach with an untiring eagerness. A hidden rock would spoil his life’s desire. WUE LAKE HURON, 1613. In the hard set lines of his rugged, yet kindly face, one could see that he had suffered cruel hunger, bitter cold, and danger and disease, yet in his eyes there was that large hope of the man of peril, infusing into the heart of him who should meet his glance equal hope and courage, for he was a born leader of men, this Champlain. As he stood he cast his eyes now and then at the knots of men gathered on the deck below : gentlemen, merchants and servants, a motley crew, yet he saw in them no distinction of class, but thehope of France in the New World, to be shaped into a dependency worthy of her fair name. Suddenly his gaze rested upon a high bluff of rock, blue in. the distance, but rearing a mighty front thrust far out into the channel. A lofty point of land jutted out from the opposite shore and in the distance they appeared to meet. A noisy clamour arose as he drew all attention 114 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. rousing cheer awoke the quiet of the river. Eagerly they eazed till the wind brought them up closer, and still closer, till they dropped anchor right beneath andin the shadow of the beetling cliff. Hurriedly boats were lowered and rowed ashore and Champlain after a solemn religious offer- ing started immediately upon the task of rearing his settlement. He selected the very edge of the shore below the heights, and all hands were put to work chopping down trees, sawing them into lumber, clearing away the under- brush and vines, digging drains and trenches, and amid the bustle and hurry of toil the leader himself was the busiest, guiding, helping, working with that in- dustry that no danger or disappointment could subdue. the labor to a halt and in the meantime tents were erected; for most of the band weary of the long voyage were glad’to sleep on land again, while Champlain, with the eye of the soldier, for the pro- tection of his men, placed a guard over the camp in fear of some unknown evil lurking about the great silent depths of primeval forest. And so was begun the initial stage in a colony . which the founder hoped would become a great em- pire under the lillies of France and the cross of Rome, for Champlain combined with the practical example of the soldier and statesman the dogmatic principles of the church and had the energy of the in- fant colony and its promotors been turn- ed upon reaping a benefit from the soil with as much zeal asthe holy fathers showed in their efforts at converting the natives there might have been a different history of Canada to read. But the traders and land holders, emulating the example of Spain in colonization, were bent upon receiving from the land a maxi- mum of riches for a minimum of toil. For several days Champlain worked steadily at his settlement building dwell- ings, storehouses, meeting-houses and a chapel, the whole being strongly barri- caded against incursions of hostile In- dians. The planting and seeding of grain and vegetables was strongly advocated and plots of arable ground cleared for the purpose. He had sent his ship down to Pontgraveat Tadousac for more materials to the spot anda Only darkness brought’ and on its return everything was taken in hand in preparation for the exigencies of winter. They found the Indians about them a tractable lot, but knowing nothing of agriculture, depending on the game of the woods and the fish of the rivers for their living, a most precarious one at best as the French soon found to their cost. Winter came and with it the hardships to people unused to severe frost and much snow. The scurvy broke out ina virulent form dealing fatal blows uponthe little colony. They were in a sad state. All their fresh food became exhausted from the unceasing demand upon it, and the natives from whom they looked for succour were in a worse plight than them- selves. Yet through it all, Champlain the leader, worked incessantly, praying, exorcising, cheering, and many a poor, tired, sick soul he brought back from the gates of a dismal death. Then the days grew longer, the sun warmer, the snows left the open places and the river moved once more ; and up through the drifting ice cakes there sailed a little ship which the settlers descried with tears ofjoy. It was Pontgrave’s nephew come from Tadousac to ask the welfare of the com- rades at Quebec. With the presence of friends amongst them the colonists took fresh heart. They industrously began their spring planting and seeding, and Champlain seeing each and all busy with his own affairs set sail down the St. Lawrence. During the winter his brain, ever alert and active in the interests of France, had conceivedplans for greater discoveries and explorations of the country. Todo this he must have a capable man to take charge of the settlement and so the trip to Tadousac. Pontgrave who had been enlarging his fish and fur trade during the cold season, acceded to his wishes and the two friends returned to Quebec. Champlain had learned that in order to carry on any enterprise through the land he must be on terms of intimacy with the natives of the country, so he immed- iately called a council of the tribe of In- dians amid whom he was settled and learned further of the two great factions that were habitually opposed to each other at that time : the Algonquins and abatit, raat ae Po * pers kPa ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA the Iroquois. The Algonquin tribes, to which his friends belonged, dwelt on the shores and north of the St. Lawrence, while the Iroquois, their inveterate en- emies, lived to the south and west. He listened in sympathy to the tales of the inroads of the enemy, their encroachment upon the hunting and fishing grounds of his friends, and he warmly joined ina proposal to make a raid upon the country of the Iroquois and have revenge for the repeated insults. For this alliance with the Algonquins, Champlain has_ been much blamed, but it was undoubtedly his only recourse when he wished to venture upon new fields of ex- ploration and travel... No doubt, also, the Algonquins led him astray by belittling the strength and prowess of their enemy. To have taken a neutral position would have seemed an admission of timidity, even cowardice, to the minds of the Indians, and to the chivalrous Champlain such a stand was in- tolerable. When the In- dians were as- sured by solemn promises that he and his soldiers would accompany them into the land of their bitter foes they were jubilant. They had seen the effect of the fire-arms of the French on birds and animals and they were boldly optimistic when told they would be just as effective against the Iroquois. They sent word by fleet runners to another nation who had up- held their cause in the strife: the Hurons who lived in a far country to the west. This tribe had always been on friendly trading relations with the Algonquins and upon hearing of the great campaign to be waged against their mutual enemies they ALONG CHAMPLAIN’S ROUTE—A PORTION OF CHATS FALLS, 115 hurried down in their war canoes to the meeting. Greatly were they surprised at the appearance of the French whom they now saw for the first time. They invited: Champlain to visit their country telling him of a vast ocean of water on the shores of which stood their settlements. Cham- plain acceded willingly to the invitation believing the body of water mentioned, to be the great south sea of the Spaniards whereby lay the way to China, and the riches of the East, a voyage he had ever in mind from the time of his first visit to He was therefore very eager America. ON THE UPPER OTTAWA. : to help the Allies in vanquishing their com- mon foe and after a feast of some duration they set off in the month of June, Cham- plain leading the party in which were eleven arquebusiers of the Quebec gar- rison. Up the broad river went the war flotilla, the Indians in their bark canoes, the great explorer and his soldiers in a rough,open shallop. They crossed Lake St. Peter and entered the Richelieu river. When about half way down the natives quarrelled among themselves and _ half of their number went home. An obstacle appeared in the shape of numerous rapids and currents which so hindered the pro- 116 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. gress of the large boat that Champlain sent it back to Quebec with most of the arquebusiers keeping but two toassist him in completing the voyage. With a greatly dimished force the bold leader kept on down the river, passed the dense oak and walnut forests, islets crowned with noble pines, mountains and cliffs of strange unaccountable shapes, the whole clothed in the balmy freshness of early summer weather. Then one calm, clear morning they burst upon the broad smiling bosom of an open lake, a dazzling expanse in the sunlight. To this large stretch of water Champlain gave his name which it bears today They had now come into a_ hostile country where much _ precaution was necessary. Night was chosen for travel to safeguard fromsurprise by the Iroquois. One evening, shortly after getting under way, they came upon a band of the enemy who were undoubtedly like them- selves on the war path. They were dis- covered and amad rush was made by both parties for cover of the shore. The Iroquois, first to land, hastily erected a rude palisade but Champlain gathering his force together into some kind of order at once stormed the stronghold. It was the first meeting of the enemy with fire-arms and feeling the effect of the murderous gunshot, and wholly unable to compre- hend the noise nor distinctly see the new power they fled precipitately, utterly routed and amazed. They did not stop to collect their wounded or canoes and the Algonquins satisfied with a victory so complete gathered together their pris- oners for a great feast of torture. Cham- plain was then shown examples of per- secution that befell the unfortunates who were captured on either side. Stricken to the heart with the intense agony of the sufferers during the exhibition of fiendish cruelty, he begged the Indians to allow him toshoot the remainder and save them from such inexpressible pain. The captors reluctantly granted his re- quest. In setting down the facts of the incident afterwards, the good man forgot to mention that exquisite tortures ona par with those which he had here witnessed were practised under the name of religion in his own native Christian land but a short period before. Glutted sufficiently with blood shed and ~ feasting the war party now returned up— the long water avenue, the Indians to their homes on the Ottawa and St. Lawrence and Champlain to Quebec. There now ensued for the colony of New France a period of depression wherein the leader, never cast down, betook him- self almost annually to the motherland for aid. It was slow in coming. Any man but the strenuous Champlain would have thrown up the cause in despair ; but he was of a rare mould. Though his object was defeated at one point he clung tenaciously to another, In this way when he found the material side of his hopes coldly rebuffed he ventured upon the spiritual and the church never forsook him. His wasan eventful, coloured life at this time, one year at home in France writing or speaking his mind to the mer- © chants or princes of the realm; one day in a print shop in Paris, another seeking audience of the king at Versailles ; next year back to Tadousac or Quebecinstilling into the minds of the colonists the hope of the country and the faith in agri- culture, or sweeping with the allied nations down upon the lodges. of the Iroquois ~ with his murderous terrifying fire-arms. In the spring of the year 1613, atter a successful return from France, Cham- plain finding his little colony at last in a progressive state decided upon an exten- sive tour of exploration. He voyaged up. the St. Lawrence to the old Indian settle- ment of Hochelaga and finding the local- ity suitable, built a post giving to it the name of Mont Royale from the exceed- ing high mountain in the vicinity. He had not forgotten his promise to the Hurons and about this time he senta young Frenchmen, Nicholas de Vignan, onatrip up the Ottawa. man returned after a prolonged stay witha story of a vast sea with English ships and seaports,and also of a country containing mythical and impossible products yet which the credulous fancy of Champlain — received without a doubt. He was eager to witness these wonders for himself and’ accompanied by four Frenchmen including Vignan, and an Indian he embarked in two small canoes from the new. post of Mont Royale. They threaded their way up the brown The young | ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. waters of the Ottawa, along shores gay with the bright green of the maple and birch or sombred in places with the tall upstanding pines. Their progress was stopped by the tumbling rapids of the Carillon and Long Sault. Here with great toil the party had to pole their frail barks up the swiftly moving current, finding it a better means of locomotion than por- taging through the impenetrable woods and underbrush that clothed the surround- ing shores. Unskilled inthe work, Cham- plain, in a particularly treacherous spot, making a false motion with his pole, was precipitated into the water and [free forced hurriedly Es down stream in J the writhing J current. For- §- ee F ee tunately he was carried against an upjutting boulder where, clinging tenac- iously he was finally freed from his perilous ra position. The _ rapids successfully pas- sed they renew- ed their journey. The waters of the river, except for a broad, re- gular current, were now excel- lent for the pro- pelling of the canoes and no obstruction showed until the great falls of the Chaudiere loomed in the distance. The wild grandeur of the scenery en- thralled Champlain and won a few hours rest for the tiredcrews. As they waited, watching the wide tumbling of the brown waters over the massive rock and the angry, seething whirlpools losing them- selves in the deep distances beyond, they were surprised by the approach of a band of friendly Indians come for the purpose of offering their periodical gift of tobacco to the Manitou spirit of the falls. They listened to the weird incantations of the nattves with wonder, watched their gro- ALONG CHAMPLAIN’S ~ willingly gave them. 117 tesque yet supple movements with a de- gree of awe for the wild majesty of the surroundings elicited a sense of reverence from the spectators used as they were to the emotional pageantry of their own re- ligiOus rites. Day after day they toiled over the strong currents or rough portages of the Ottawa. Hitherto they had acted upon the guidance and counsel of the young man Vignan till his repeated and confus- ing errors led Champlain to doubt his fine tale of adventure. Their arrival at Lake Allumette, where they came upon THE ALEXANDER ENG « ROUTE—ON THE TRENT RIVER NEAR HASTINGS. a large Algonquin village under the rule of the famous chief Tessonat and who spoke of his having met and housed the adventurer Vignan during his former trip, aroused further suspicion in the mind of Champlain andin a quiet moment he asked for further details of the chief who So incensed was he at the perfidy of the young man, who had really not ascended the river any farther than the Algonquin village, that he turned the canoes about and hastened, without farther parley, back to Mont Royale. He was greatly disappointed, for he 118 had fully expected to reach and realize for himself that dream ofall his ambition, the great South Sea. He did hear,indeed, of a great sea, but now forthe first time he was assured that it was not salt but fresh water, and it lay, so chief Tessonat had told him, scarce a moon’s journey from hiscamp onthe Ottawa. Champlain, undaunted, still determined to continue his journey tothe unknown waters, but in the meantime there had come to the colony a few men, the forerunners of a group of toiling and daring enthusiasts who were from now onto be the chief actors in the tragic drama of New France. These were the Recollet Friars, Dennis Jamay, Jean Dolbeau and Joseph Le Caron. Withtheir long grey cassocks, girt at the waist with knotted cord, peak- ed hood to shield their shaven heads from the elements and rough wooden sandals, scarce any protection from the flinty paths of the wilderness they formed picturesque figures. These men were to give evid- ence of what severe ordeals, trials and tortures faith can endure when borne up by the influence of a fixed and burning zeal. Champlain nad to be at Quebec to receive these devout missionaries, to acquaint them with the prospects before them, and apportion to each his field in the new land. This was an easy matter as each man had come fully prepared to do anything and everything in his power for the exhaltation of his order even to the sacrifice of his life. To the lot of Le Caron fell the yet unexplored Huron country. Shortly after his departure from headquarters Cham- plain followed fast in his wake, bound at last to fathom the mystery of the great sea. With a force of ten Indians, Etienne Brule, a Frenchman, who speaking the Indian language acted as his interpreter, and another Frenchmen, they set off from Mont Royal in two large canoes. Rapidly they covered the miles of water of the Ottawa over the same route as the past year’s voyage, though this time under better and more assured guidance. Then on past the islands Allumette and Calumet of Chief Tessonat’s encampment up the narrower reaches of the sombre river to its junction with the Mattawa. Thence they made their way to Lake Nipissing, crossed the lake of many is- ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. lands to the French river and down through more islands to the head of Georgian Bay. Here at last was the great inland sea of Lake Huron or ‘‘La Mer Douce” as Champlain called it, its broad expanse rolling for miles around and beyond them. | It wasa bright, gala picture that the party presented that day to the vast primal region. Champlain in his rich colored silks and velvets, his two country- men in all the flash of gay trappings and steel, and the dusky Indians in paint and shining nakedness, stealing along the silvery bosom of the water in their light, birch-bark canoes. They paddled down the large body of fresh water till it gave place to an archipelago of myriad islands, passed innumerable capes and bays and at last they landed ina harbor adjacent to the present town of Penetanguishene. Here they lett the water to travel through the dense forests and eventually arrived at the encampment of a band of Neutral Indians, the first tribe the great explorer had yet come in contact with who were primarily tillers of the soil. Unlike their friends, the Hurons, this nation spent little time onthe war path and then only when forced to it. Unfor- tunately when the fierce war of exter- mination was started by the Iroquois upon the Hurons and their allies, this little tribe was pounced upon and literally effaced in the general massacres... Cham- plain and his party stayed with, and ac- cepted the friendly hospitality of the Neutrals, for a short while, but presently started onward, through the forest, until the fair waters of Lake Simcoe sparkled | on their sight. Here in the heart of the Huron country, they were feasted by their friends and allies, taken on fishing trips, . given the freedom of the land, till the adventure-loving leader again made sig- nal to move on. .AIll this time Champlain was making a lasting impression on the Indians he met with, winning them over to his country and his religion by many friendly words and acts of kindness. Having crossed Lake Simcoe and finding no outlet they portaged through the dense woods and arrived at Sturgeon Lake, thence on down through a chain of lesser lakes and streams to the River Trent. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. This river and its tributaries flowed through a great hunting territory of the natives and in honor of their guest they decided upon having a big deer hunt. Their method was not unlike the destruc- tive plans of the deer-slayers of today. They divided the hunting party into two sections, one-half scouring the woods with wild cries and halloos to drive the deer to the edge of the woods and into the water where the other party lay in wait intheir canoes, and killed the animals with ashower of arrows and _ spears. Champlain, and his two French followers, were given places of advantage on the firing line and the splendid execution of their arquebuses easily won the admira- tion of the Indians who were not content until they had gained the consent of their white brothers to engage in an immediate raid upon the Iroquois to the south. On once giving way to the war fever the natives were eager for the trail. They started right away, gathering in numbers as they went. Paddling down the Trent in their great war canoes to its debouchement into the Great Lake of Ontario, they crossed this broad water in safety and entering the wide forest land onthe other side found themselves in the Iroquois country. Plunging at once into the wooded depths they toiled for days and when near the point of turning back they were rudely overtaken by the harsh, wild cry of the enemy. A vision of an occasional savage in full war-paint cros- sed the silent avenues of the forest. Then resulted a surprise for Champlain. In- stead of having the volleys from his fire- arms answered with the soft whirr of flying arrows, as usually happened, he heard the sharp crack of muskets like his own. The surprise ended in a panic, for his allies fearful of this new terror in the hands ot so deadly a foe, turned and fled with scarcely a show of resistance, and Cham- plain wounded himself and sick of the af- fair was forced to follow. Day and night they ran back through the tangled thickets to where their canoes lay hidden on the shores of the great lake. These they launched in haste and not until the ‘mouth of their own River Trent was reached did the Hurons deem themselves safe. | Champlain afterwards discovered that the guns of the enemy were received 11g in barter with the Dutch colony of Albany, who had also taught them the use of the fatal weapons until they became quite proficient marksmen. Alltalk of fighting was now banished from the palavers of the Indians, the war-paint washed off, tomahawks laid away, while Champlain and his party, if not disgraced in the eyes of the allies, were not held in the former high esteem. Of course, the fault of the defeat rested with the Hurons themselves but their pride would not let them accept the shame, and the French- men suffered. They were bandied about from one village to another all that winter and though always given the open hos- pitality and freedom of any camp, Cham- plain felt keenly the cold, stern contempt shown him by his erstwhile friends. He looked forward eagerly for spring and his return to Quebec. All the time he had spent in this new wilderness he had never once seen thefriar Le Caron although occasionally a stray Indian would men- tion the fact of his being somewhere about the locality. When the warm weather broke up the ice-fetters of lake and river, the tired leader, Weary at last of his pilgrimage, started off on a search for the missionary. Straying away from the camp one day he got deeper into the forest than he in- tended and failed to find his followers. For several days he wandered about the dense bush teeding on roots and berries until coming upon the course of a river he followed the current and eventually after much hardship found his compan- ions. Such were the misadventures that befell the explorer but he ever looked on the brighter side drawing inspiration from reverses the most severe. At last in his wanderings he came upon a little encampment wherein was the friar Le Caron strenuously upholding the work of the church. He had, like Champlain, suffered much from insult and indifference and when the latter spoke ofa return tothe little colony on the banks of the St. Lawrence, the toil-worn friar readily consented, and after paying a promised visit to the Tobacco nation of Indians, gathering a few natives for guides the two-wilderness workers com- menced the long journey home. They returned over the same course taken in coming out. While going down 120 the Ottawa they came upon a combined encampment of Hurons and Algonquins and here Champlain had to act as umpire to a fight that had occurred. In his sim- ple nature he was quite pleased with these friendly overtures thinking he had at last won his way into their hearts and good graces. Arrived at Quebec the voyagers were given a fine ovation though it worried the great man to see what negligence and decay had fallei upon his favorite settle- ment. But witha spirit abovedepression or despair he started at once upon the task of putting fresh vim and spirit into the life of the colony. He repaired and renewed the walls of the fort and store houses ; built a larger and more service- able style of house for the pioneers ; en- couraged farming to a greater extent, though in every manner the fur traders baulked his efforts. He made yearly visits to the mother country to win new settlers and to enthuse other leaders in the cause of the fair New France. Toencour- age emigration the good man married and brought his young wife to Quebec as an example, but the time was not ripe yet for the enlargement, to any extent, of the colony. He made a sad mistakein bringing both religious factions to the new land, the Romanists and the Huguenots for they never agreed, were ever bickering and coming to blows. Then Richelieu, step- ping in, founded his Company of a Hun- dred Associates ; another fatal error for those men cared nothing for agriculture or the development of the country. They wished to secure for themselves what riches there were in the vast stretches of forest land but farming was too slow a process for their mercenary tastes. They encouraged the colonists to become those restless, wandering sprites of the torest— the CoureurdeBois--hunters and trappers of the plentiful furred and feathered game. It was the valuable high-priced furs that had captured their attention and the wish- ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA es and views of Champlain they wholly_ ignored. Things went rapidly from bad to worse and when the Kirke brothers sailed their English fleet up under the rocky promon- tory of Quebec they encountered nothing more formidable than a few fishing bat- teaux, and a number of half-armed far- mers and fur-traders. Sweeping aside the feeble show of resistance the free- booters laid hold upon Champlain andcar- ried him off to London. He gained re- cognition, however and a settlement being shortly made between both countries the indomitable leader was again placed at the head of affairs in his cherished colony. While in France he had audience with the all powerful Richelieu and won over that shrewd statesman to his views and ideas regarding the future of New France, and being again in control and under the patronage of the great cardinal a better outlook seemed in store for the pioneers of Canada. Settlers were be- ginning to come more readily and agri- culture was given more prominence as an asset of the colony. | But just when the country was finding its new blood and was pulsing with the freshness of renewed euergy, a great blow came and it stag- gered blindly almost to its fall. Cham- plain sickened with a paralysis, and after three months battling with the dread disease the great man, growing weaker and weaker, finally succumbed on Christmas Day of the year 1635 at the age of sixty-eight years. In some odd corner of the ancient town his bones lie buried, the sacred dust un- disturbed for centuries, for no one knows his sepulchre, and no stone however simple. marks the spot. But fitting monument to. the memory of the great man is the con- stant progress of the colony he founded and though it has passed from the hands of his own fair France its destiny is still guided by the able minds of the sons of those settlers he first gathered around the stern heights of Stadacona. os g a ae The Trail of the Kawazingemas. BY HARRY ANTON AUER, Author of ‘‘The North Country.” Pe WERCHANCE the title of this sketch suggests to the reader the migra- = tions of a nomadic band of Indians in their native wilderness, so it will con- duce to a better understanding at the be- ginning to simply say that the Kawaz- ingemas are neither Crees, Mistassimis, nor Ojibways, but merely a family of three city dwellers, who years ago, led by a kindly fate, completely shattered the cake of custom, which binds the conven- tional man to the summer hotels, by plunging headlong into the trackless wilderness of Northern Canada to find companionship and rest in the mountains, and rivers, and forests; and in so doing, Mother Nature forged such subtle chains of memories that each year she calls her children of the city to the calm and peace of the wilderness in its primal simplicity and beauty. The name by which this trio of forest wanderers is known, is taken from a spot deep in the Land of Silence where all the beauties of mountain, forest, and stream come toa focus in a single stretch along a crystal riverand this spot they have named ‘‘Kawazingema,” meaning ‘‘The Great Pool” and it is their journey back to the forest home that is here related. The Great Wilderness that to the un- itiated seems so passive and neutral and impersonalin her silence, holds many surprises for the man, who comes into her sanctum for the first time, for, as she quietly folds him in her grasp, her impersonal neutrality is seen to be but a thing of the imagination, and she comes to him as a Great Mother who both gives and takes from her children as_ she scourges their artificialty with her sim- plicity, and shames their pettiness with her majestic grandeur, and calls from her deeps to the unsounded depths within her offspring, and as she sends them back to the world of things from which they came, still is her pure breath upon their lips, andin their souls the vision of her majestic countenance, until with an insistance that brooks no excuse she again calls them back to her temple. -you, and you hold council Perhaps, in June, upon the crowded street there comes a faint smell of wood smoke that causes one to stop and think; perchance, the aroma of the balsam bed steals into your senses, or it may be that as you look from your window upon the crowded smoky city, the unsightly view vanishes and you see a dashing stream of crystal, and a sudden leap and flash of life and light and color from tbe rush- ing water; whatever it may be it is too subtle to analyze, except that one knows that through her power to call up visions the Great Mother Nature is calling to her favorite children, and in joy do they answer the call, The trail of the Kawazingemas starts by rail from Washington and leads north to Toronto; then after five hours the Muskoka lakes are left in the rear and by nightfall the country of the farmer is left behind as one approaches Lake Nipissing and enters the country of the lumberman. All night long the train rushes into the north and with the dawn the evidences of civilization have almost reached the vanishing point; the few stops are only the cabins of railway employees set in the wilderness north of Lake Superior, the lumber camps are mere memories hundreds of miles in the rear and the train rushes onward through the wilds where only the deer and the Indian have their habitation. At last you disembark at a water tower and telegraph station and make your way to the Hudson’s Bay Post, where shoepacs take the place of your civilized footwear, and your summer gauze under garments are replaced by others of thick warm wool, and as the Hudson’s Bay Company’s clerk fills your provision bags you are ready to plunge into the wilds. But there are many things you must first perform; there is your old friend Antoine, your Indian guide waiting for with him for an hour while he tells you that the In- dians have not beenon the Shequamka for twenty years, but that if ‘‘The Master, Kegedowinini,” wants to go, he is ready; OJIBWAY then you visit the tepees of your Ojibway friends and introduce Chum, and Dad to the Indians whom they have never met, and you hold a long council with your old Indian Comrades of the trail, and talk with them about the Shequamka, only to find that they have avoided the river for twenty years, because ‘‘Mitchie Manito,”’ the Devil, lives there. But at nine o’clock at night your duffel bags and canoe are placed aboarda train and for the last time you utilize the steam transportation of the white man; after an hour the train comes to a_ stop in the dark woods, the bags and canoe are put off inthe forest and you stumble about in the dark until you have found them. Then, as the last rumble of the train blends into the silence of the night, comes the realization that the jumping off place has been reached; so Chum takes the cameras and the rods and the rest carry the bags to a shed which serves as a flag station, on the floor of which you sleep for the night. To the exoteric the cold drizzling rain which served as a greeting as we awak- ened inthe morning, might appear dis- couraging, but to the Kawazingemas it was merely one of the inevitable and fit- TEPEES. ting moods which Dame Nature displays and as sucha condition neither to be regretted nor deplored. Chum and Dad sat about the cook fire watching the rain hiss as it came in contact with its enemy the fire, with no more concern than if the breakfast were ‘to be served in the New Willard. The fact is that you are attired for the occasion, you may be soaking wet, but the thick wool gar- ments keep you entirely warm. From the cook fire the trailleads down the mountain amile anda half to the Shequamka River and though the trees had to be cut from the trail in places to allow the canoe to be carried through and the five hundred pounds of provisions and blankets and tents must be carried on our backs, yet the first portage was not an unlovely nor an. unenjoyable one, for in spite of the douches of water showered from every spruce tree with which we came in contact, there was the happy sensation that at last we were back to great nature; the feel of the trail beneath our moccasins, the fresh, clean, earth smells, the aroma of the balsam, were all compensating joys. And the river? As it came down between the mountains, it was like meeting a new ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA friend who bore the image of an old friend dearly loved in the past. All day long we glided down its crystal depths, between the forest covered moun- tains which had never echoed the ring of the white man’s axe. At first the pace was slow with only a vista of quiet water spread out between the calm silence of the hills, often the stream widened into lakes two miles wide, and in the after- noon before us_ stretched Shequamka Lake with its miles of mirroring crystal. The man who journeys back to primal nature for the first time will doubtless be impressed most with the appalling silence which seems almost a living personal thing; he looks upon the shores of a lake with the dense forest climbing up the mountain so thick that he cannot force 12% are permitted to sit in silent admiration of the dense mountains on either hand with the crystal water, boiling from be- low; then there is borne faintly to the ear a far off noise as of the wind blowing among the trees, yet there is no wind; but as the canoe rushes onward the noise becomes more distinct until at last you recognize the rush of the white water, which finally comes into view in the distance. se As we approached the rapids Antoine from the stern and myself as bowman, rose in the canoe to scan the leaping water and pick our course. Again we knelt in the canoe and with quick short strokes drove the light craft until it was running faster than the water, and in a moment the rapids leaped at us from all ‘“WE LOOKED BACK AT THE LEAPING WATER.”’ his way through, he sees not a single atom of movement in all the picture, not a sound strikes his ear, and he feels as if he were in the grasp of some awful fate, but a little experience soon teaches him that his own restlessness, and the fact that his ear has been attuned to conflict- ing noises, are responsible for the unrest which the silence of the hills first gives him, andashe loses his fretful mood Great Nature wraps her silence about him as a mantle of peace and calm repose. Seven miles down Shequamka Lake the mountains open to form an outlet for the river; at first the current is barely perceptible but after several miles one notices that the shores are passing more rapidly, and gradually the mountains are becoming higher, and the stream nar- rower until the canoemen cease paddling and merely steer as the canoe is borne upon the swift current; for ten miles you sides; rocks seemed to spring from the foam infront to end our career, but a quick stroke from the powman averted the danger and ina few moments the tension of nerve and muscle was relaxed as we looked back at the leaping water, whose roar again slipped back into the silence whence it came. We continued to glide down the liquid incline until the sun approached the sky line of the moun- tains about us, and a growing chill set- tled upon the river to remind us that we must make camp; and as we rounded a bend, a point of projecting flat rock cov- ered with spruce and birch presented to us an ideal camp site. It takes but little time to clear a space, erect the tents between the trees, make the balsam beds two feet thick, and cut the wood for the evening friendship fires, and no sooner was the last log cut than Antoine spread upon the ground our sup- 124 per. As we enjoyed the eveniny meal, we congratulated ourselves that we had covered forty miles of river trail; and began to wonder why it is the Indians believe the Devil lives. on the river, which had been tous only a vision of beauty. There is about the upper part of the river a mystic quality that is strangely subtle, and bat- fling from which | the superstition may unjustly arise; it may lie | in the absolute | silence unbroken except for the roar of the three stretches ofwhite water which only seemed to leave the silence more intense as they were left in the rear; it may be that the weird- ness was caused |5@m by this peculiar |g quality of the rapid water, which though i! glided and boiled between the si- lent hills for miles, yet there Was never a mur mur nor tinkle o1 the stream _ to break the cloak of silence, which seemed to enfold us, aS no noise came from _ the water below, nor the hills on each side, and no bird fluttered above our head. As I look back upon the first day’s journey it seems like an unreality culled from the stuff that dreams are made of, even the mountains as we looked out from our camp and be- held them in the purple twilight, perfect- ly reflected, in the river, seemed to be born of the fancy. In silent council we sat about the birch logs of the friendship fire, each with his unspoken thoughts KADASKEPKEDGEWAN. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. contented merely to be back again in the Great Forest. ik The early morning air in the moun- tains even in August always has a qual- ity of piercing coldness that causes one to roll his blankets tightly about him as he plans his movments on leaving the tent in order to be in motion all the time to keep warm. Dressing consisted merely in pulling on our shoepacs as we had slept in all our other garments on ac- count of the cold and on leaving the tent for the morning wash, it seemed as if all nature were smoking; count- less columns of white vapor rose from the moun- tains, the white mist came up from the water, and even ‘the Kawazingemas all seemed to have an inward smudge as our exhalations turn- ed to white vapor But no sooner was our toilet finished than we hastened to roll up and strap our blankets and tents and carry them tothecanoe Breakfast was ready, and the quart of tea we drank was just the proper inward heat producer and quickly the dishes were washed and the canoe swung into the stream. Every one paddled to keep warm on such a morning; even Chum took a_ paddle to ~ help circulation and the canoe leaped down stream at a rate that threatened to put seventy miles behind us before night- fall, but ten miles down there came to us a rush and a roar of a falls as the water - Ait fF ; : a Ie ate e Oh SANG Bb 400 / mA ‘“THE CANOEMEN MERELY STEER.” dropped forty feet. - We looked for a trail on both sides of the river, only to find the spruce forest so thick as to present an impenetrable barrier; at last we found some rotten tepee poles where there must have been a trail in the long ago, but it was over- grown with young spruce, fifteen feet in height and so close that the branches in- terlaced. It was merely one of the fa- vorite tricks the wilderness often displays merely to try your mettie, so we merely played the hand that was laid out and started with axes to cut a trail just wide enough to permit carrying the canoe; and in three hours we had made a path one quarter of a mile long and below the falls cooked dinner. Again we started down stream and as the roar be- hind dwindled into silence we began to hear another roar ahead, and once more cut our way through and went into camp . at the end of the trail for the night. About the friendship fire we figured out at best, but twelve miles for our day’s travel, and it slowly dawned upon our minds what the Indians meant when they said, ‘‘Mitchie Manito on the river.” But our weariness and the night chill drove us to the warmth of the blankets and in the morning we awoke to repeat the performance of the previous day. Two days we travelled through the cold rain, cutting our way around falls, but on the following morning the sun smiled upon us brightly even if coldly. ' The stream was fast and noisy and every mile had its own individual problem of dodging the rocks in the leaping white water which isthe greatest joy of the canoeman. With the afternoon sun dead ahead we approached a chute of white water nearly a mile long which looked as if it could be run with loaded canoe and on starting intoit all went well notwithstanding the sun shining upon the stream made it impossible to see the rocks until almost upon them, and in this situation we were escaping destruction in the rushing torrent only by inches; occasionally an unseen rock beneath the canoe would scrape the bot- tom and for a moment we would look expecting to see the water spurting through our craft, but the Red Gods of the Waters were smiling kindly upon us that day as the rocks we struck were evidently not sharp but smooth and merely scarred the canoe without ripping itopen. In dashing around a curve at the lower end of the rapids however, the stream was so completely studded with needle like rocks that it was impossible to avoid them so Antoine and the writer leaped into the torrent and checked the canoe and by much labor finally guided it through the maze to deeper water without mishap other than having our legs cut by the sharp rocks. Just below us was the Kadaskeked- pgewan, the rocky gorge where the river narrowed to fifteen feet between the walls of the mountain, where it roared and rushed with awful power in its restrainted hunts. By this time we were certain we knew the meaning of the Indian report concerning the river, but even as we carried our canoe and duffel over the mountain of rock in a back breaking portage we were quite certain that Mitchie Manito must bea jolly good fellow, for though he often arranged the stage for a difficult play, yet he was con- siderate in making it one not quite be- 126 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. yond the range of our attainment. Below Kadaskapkedgewan there is a stretch of twenty miles of almost con- stant white water where the canoemen do not paddle, but merely sit in un- studied ease and steer and watch moun- tain after mountain as they -seem to ap- proach at first slowly then at accelerated speed until they rush past. At length we heard the faint roar of the falls at Cat Portage ten miles away and in an- other half hour as the Shequamka rushed into the Big River, the canoe was turned up stream and the active work with the paddles taken up again. For a time we paddled making little headway, then the poles were brought into use until we came to a point where we could no jonger pole against the current; then An- tOine and the writer leaped into the twenty feet fall into the big pool; a para- dise for the fisherman, yet buried so deep in the uncharted wilderness that it remains a prize only for the daring and its pools know not the drop of the an- gler’s fly except those which the Kawa- zingemas, or their friends, have cast into the swirling water. Once more we pick our way to the big pool and stand aside to let Chum make the first catch; for a moment she whips out the flies and then without dropping them upon the water, by a slow back cast lands them behind her on the big rock while she lays down her rod. Chum is in no haste, she looks at the familiar falls as an old friend, met after years’ parting and more dear by reason of the absence; she smiles down at the pool in memory of her encounter of years before, until wondering whether ‘“THE CANOEMEN MERELY STEER.” white water and dragged and pushed the canoe a mile until the current was less swift; then another mile of slow paddling and we came to the roaring fall of Cat Portage. At last we were nearing home. There is nothing so conducive to inward satis- faction as to come back to the scene of your former campfires; and, as you clus- ter about the blazing friendship fire at night, memories of the last time your fire blazed at the Portage crowd upon you, and as you sit in the glow the faces of your comrades of other days come out of the smoke and hold silent council with you until the dying flames and the en- croaching night chill drive you to the shelter of the tents. Cat Portage isa half mile stretch alter- nating rapids and falls ending in the the fish are still as eager as of old she again takes up her rod and begins to whip out the brown hackle and governor across the circling foam; at last a sharp forward snap of the wrist at the end of a vigorous forearm cast and the flies line out across the pool and drop quietly upon the water. As if by magic a flash of light and color moving too rapidly to take form darts out of the water where the brown hackle has dropped and with a_ splash falls back into the dark depths; the flash of color was too eager and missed the brown hackle, but as the flies again drop upon the water a second time there comes another flash of color and the rod bends and bends as the electric connection be- tween the fish and the leader sends the thrill along the rod to the fisher lady on co FALLS OF CAT PORTAGE. the rocks. Chum speaks no word as the line races back and forth across the pool, sometimes going down and down bending the rod to the breaking point then suddenly slacking as the fish darts to the surface and clears the water by a foot, only to find that the hand that holds the rod has twisted the tip over her shoulder with the butt far advanced to take up the slack line.’ A number of journeys down to the depths and the in- variable leap into the air at the end of the dash to the surface, and Chum be- gins to take ina little line, slowly at first for every inch is contested by a fighter who is born with a knowledge of how to play the game and who plays it in the desperation of his life’ as the stake. At last his rushes are shorter, his leaps barely clear the water and he is surely nearer the rock. to smile and nods her head as you scramble down with the landing net, but the end is not yet for as the fish is drawn nearer, he recovers his dash and for five minutes lashes the water in his effort to escape, butto no avail for now you reach the net beyond him andas you swing it upward the line is slackened and the quarry is brought to the rock in silence. _ No clapping of hands, no noisy exul- tation marks the defeat of this aquatic gladiator; the face of the victor is flushed with a pink glow, her eyes have an un- usual sparkle, but her joy is too deep and seasoned with too much respect and admiration for the vanquished to find expression in any noisy hurrah. - Indeed the rest of us crowding about her as she _sits down with her captive in her lap -understand well enough her feeling as Chum begins. she gazes in rapture at thegolden red ex- tending from the belly of the fish up its sides until it is lost in the irridescent green and blue sprinkled with yellow spots with five rows of crimson spots from head to tail, surrounded by their areola of cerulean blue. After Chum has feasted her eyes she begins to stroke the graceful form with her hands and to follow the perfect lines with her fingers and not until fifteen minutes have elapsed does she open her lips and only then to announce the truism, ‘‘This is the most perfect poemin form and color that nature hasever made.” You agree with her but ask her if she wants an- other to match it, but Chum only shakes her head; this is her first trout fora year and she must gaze at it in the ecstacy of her joy until itscolor andform have entire- ly filled her mind. Even as you hold itup from the spring scales which indicate four pounds Chum only smiles with con- tentment unmixed with anything so base as exultation. But since Chum was not ready to re- sume her casting, Dad began to whip out the flies and at once connected with another native of the pool, and finally brought him to net. By this time I had become impatient at the sight of the two monsters, so taking my rod journeyed a hundred feet up to a smaller pool where the first cast brought two flashes to the surface as both flies were taken. Strange to tell doubles are easier to han- dle than singles and within ten minutes the net was placed under the lower and a moment later the upper fish was slacked in to keep the first company. The first weighed three pounds while the second pulled the scales to two. But on going 128 back to the big pool I found Chum and Dad had each taken their second fish the smallest being three pounds. So the catch was tied together and fishing pro- hibited until the supply in hand should become depleted. I have often tried to formulate a_psy- chology of fishing but without there is something so illusory and subtle about it as to defy definition. I know not whether it lies in the beauty of color and grace of form of the trout, or in his peerless mettle as a fighter, or in the spell of his wilderness environment, but certain it is that there is something that absolutely intoxicates one as he whips out his flies across a trout water; his cares, his fears, his conventionalities, yes, even his own personality drop away from him as a mantle and he is avail;' ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. gan to narrow, and became more rapid; here we found some ducks travelling ahead of us and following them around a bend bagged nine of them. The purple shadows of the long twilight were fall- ing upon the mountains and the chill of night was creeping down upon the wa- ter, all calling us back to the campfire, yet just ahalf a mile beyond us was Kawazingema. For an instant only was there hesitation, then with a rush the insuperable wave of impulse to see Kawazingema came over me and we rapidly plied the paddles up stream, each curve and bend greeting us as old friends until at last we took the poles to force our way against the rushing water; how good it seemed to be poling up the diffi- cult stretch again, as we slowly forced our way inches at a time watching the RAPIDS ABOVE CAT PORTAGE FALLS transported into an atmosphere of dreams and fancies. For several days we camped beside the rushing waters of Cat Portage wait- ing until the full moon, when we had planned our arrival at Kawazingema four miles up the river. Each day as we looked up the stream or fished the pools our thoughts went back to the woodland home just north of us, and every even- ing about the friendship fire, as we watched the growing moon rise above the trees we joyfully noted the time tor our home coming was drawing nearer. The evening before the day we pur- posed leaving Cat Portage, Antoine and myself took the canoe up the river to look for ducks; for two miles the river is broad and quiet with little or no current and in silence we paddled up until it be- point ahead of us around which lay our old camp. At length we reached the point where the shallow water drops down into the pool and digging in the paddles with two strokes we were into the pool and in a moment had reached the bank of Kawazingema. Whoever is fortunate enough to have a particular spot in the wilderness that is more cherished than all others, where no one but himself and his own friends - have ever camped before can appreciate my feelings as I stood in the deepening shadows of the twilight once again in our old forest home. Two years had passed since we had left, yet there were the balsam beds upon which we slept, untouched except by the withering hand of time turning them from green to brown, there lay our tent poles just as. THE KAWAZINGEMAS COUNCIL. we had left them, even the half burnt birch which we had used as a_ back log for our friendship fire welcomed us back to our old home, while the wood we had cut was piled close at handas we had left it, waiting for us to come again to the family council. But as this was merely a preliminary visit and our home coming was tobe on the morrow we pushed the canoe into the stream and anchored it just to see what welcome the denizens of the pool had for the return- ing Kawaziagemas. The first cast met with aready response and for fifteen minutes it was a battle royal, until out matched the speckled beauty was brought to the net and pulled the scales four pounds, the second cast brought one nearly aslarge and the third hooked another which brought to net weighed _ three pounds; then as we had enough fish and duck for the following day we pad- dled back to camp inthe light of the moon and huddled close about the friendship fire while we reported toChum and Dad that Kawazingema, untouched and unchanged, awaited us on the morrow. The following morning was ushered in with a steady downpour from the heavy low-hanging clouds and the air was cold and penetrating in the chill, but nothing so trivial as acold, driving rain could -dampen our spirits, for we were embark- ing for the Kawazingema of our dreams and memories: By the time we had _reached the rapid water and begun to pole, the clouds began to break and as _ the canoe rounded the point and crossed the big pool to the shore the sun came - out in all his friendliness to shine a wel- e come upon us as we stepped ashore at the wilderness home. Quickly the tents were pitched on the same spots where they had stood two years before and the same tent poles and pegs were brought into use, and fresh balsam piled upon our withered beds and in a short time we were comfortably in camp. Then to give myself the pleasure of seeing Chum and Dad work the pool, I paddled the canoe into the stream and anchored opposite the camp and my two comrades began to cast. Inhalf an hour tbey had taken six trout ranging from two and one-half pounds to four pounds and having taken enough for our needs for the day we went ashore for dinner. In the afternoon Chum and Dad again fished the pool and as the trout were brought to the net, they were carefully removed and given their freedom, but after twenty were taken and released, we came ashore again to preserve the skins of some of the larger ones to the end that upon our return to the City we might mount and hang them upon our walls and in the long winter evenings be car- ried back to the Forest. The wilderness reserves for her chil- dren the evening council about the friend- ship fire as the happiest moments, when the forest has become a mass of inky blackness and mystery, and the silence has become a pressing reality, and the little circle of light had drawn the forest wanderers together. The first night at Kawazingema we gathered close about the friendship fire of blazing birch logs for our council. Back came the visions of the day, the trout that were taken from the pool, the joy and appreciation 130 of being again upon the crystal water, the contentment and _ satisfaction and absolute relaxation in being home once more; again we sat as in council of other days and could almost see the faces that we used to look upon across the glowing coals; where now were Meskeekeewinini and Bewabequoquewinini, Neshwabun, Masinaqua, and Biddequaw who had been in the Kawazingema council before? All were gone, yet not really absent, for surely these comr ades of other friendship fires had in spirit returned to the Kawaz- ingama coun- cil, and though their places about the circle seemed vacant yet sweet mem- ory filled the void with their cheerful _ pres- ence. For an hour at least we sat in silence until a wolf pack be- gan its long and dismal howl; I spoke to Antoine to ask why some of the grey sleuths of the wood made more noise than the others and he re- plied, ‘‘Two dose wolf mak eet vera beeg noise, young wolfs heem more sweet,” and at once the period of meditation was broken and the council was in session as each in turn spoke the thought that came to his lips for expression. Again the circle lapsed into silence and as the coals died to their deep red glow the dense lack of the forest began to give way to a grey until at iast the light from the full moon coming over the mountains ban- NATIVES OF KAWAZINGEMA, ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. ished the inky blackness and diffused a soft silver haze over the scene. After a time, as the chill of the night drove us to the warm woolen blankets, the clear silvery note of the northern song sparrows which is rarely heard except at night, came from among the tree tops to wel- come us with its night song back to Kawazingema. For a week we lived a life -of exquisite ease in the wil- derness home, hunting and fishing by day and meditating and dreaming in the glow of the friendsh i p fire by night, until at last the hour of our leave taking had come round when the tents and duffel bags were stowed in the canoe and the final friend- ship fire was lighted. For half an hour we smoked our pipes in silence, when the morn- ing sun coming over the moun- tains was the signal for the leader to bank the coals of the fire together between the rocks and as the earth covered them to declare the Council of the Kawazingemas at an end; and with wistful look upon the beloved scene we entered the canoe and in silence pushed up stream. Travelling north one day through a lake fifteen miles long we beheld a bark canoe approaching and coming nearer, the paddles of both canoes were lifted as is the custom with the forest people and as the canoes drifted toward each other we exchanged ‘‘Bonjous” of. greeting et =~ : yore Bd ‘ “ a ake ce) # We a Ly) OJIBWAY FAMILY EN VOYAGE. and then lighted our pipes for a friendly smoke with the Indian who, with loaded canoe, was en voyage with his wife and two children together with the family cat and dog to his winter hunting grounds, three hundred miles distant, there to remain until June should thaw out theice from the lakes and permit the return journey with his canoe laden with furs. We inquired from the Ojibway if there were any want which our duffel bags could supply, and though we could not serve himin any way, he gladly sup- plied our pressing need for tobacco, then with mutual felicitations and good wishes we drifted apart and continued on our Opposite courses. Approaching Frenchman’s’ Rapids where the waters of the lake make their leaping and noisy exit, we came to the last of our river trail, for with the ex- ception of afew miles of dead water forming connecting links in the chain the course lay through large lakes up to the Height of Land. Poling slowly up the ‘leaping stretch of the rapids, we came into the quiet waters of Whitefish Lake with the mountain girt shores stretching “away into the distance. There is that about open water canoeing through a oe large lake which is decidedly different from the river travel; in the first place there is the lack of personality in a lake, which we find in the river; it does not babble, it has no rapid places, no quiet pools often its monotonous grandeur presses upon the traveller with disquiet- ing insistance. One also misses the white water of the river, which is the canoeman’s chief joy, but in this respect the lake makes up all deficiences when in a tempestuous mood, for. in crossing its storm tossed surface the canoeman is put upon his mettle to the limit of his skill and judgment in making a safe pas- sage; nor are there any eddies or pools where he may pause for a breath in re- laxation, but he must meet each wave as it comes to him and no sooner is the hiss- ing problem past than another rises to overwhelm him if he lack resourcefulness But fortunately the days of quiet and peace rule the lake more often than those of storm and tempest, and on such a day you are embarked upon a quiet sea. There is something about a large lake in its peaceful mood that is exceedingly mystic; the silence is intense, there is no movement in the picture, the mountains rising from the shores seem such final- FRENCHMAN’S RAPIDS z ities as to call for no comment nor dis- cussion, itis a study in majestic repose. [ have never known an Indian to talk while travelling a lake, on the river he is a sociable being but when he comes upon the quiet of the lake, the silence of the hills wraps itself close about him, closing his lips; in this way does the great mother sound responsive chords in her children. In open water canoeing distance ,even with the initiated, is a most baffling ele- ment. Perhaps you may start at French- man’s Rapids to travel to the upper end of Whitefish lake which at first seems several miles wide and perhaps four long, but after reaching what seemed to be the end you find it was only a curving shore which again extends away into the dis- tance; to this point you paddle and after a time the bold outline of the projecting mountain comes. sharply into view and you are certain it is but three hundred yards ahead, yet after you have paddled half an hour, it still seems no nearer and it takes another hour to reach the point, only to find that the lake still stretches between the mountains for three miles before you reach the tumbling mass of Pigeon Falls at the end. There was something about our camp at Pigeon Falls that was particularly agreeable. The waters of the Lake ot the Great Spirit rush through the narrow pass between the mountains which tower far above your camp on either side and then stretch out in the widening distance forming the shores of Whitefish Lake. Again we camped onthe same spot, where we had stayed two years before when Chum’s tent blew down in a heavy rain and wind storm at midnight, again we fished the eddies and pools of the rapids for the large trout and having taken one big one, quietly left the gorge to fish in the small creeks for the ten inch trout for the frying pan. It was good to sit at our campfire ten feet from ~ the falls, and look down Whitefish Lake © and upon the waters and. the shadows creep up the mountains, and the forest to be- come grey about you, and then looking see the long purple twilight steal up to see far above the camp the over- — hanging rock of old rose color topping — still touched by the last — the mountain, Sot rays of the sun while below the purple — shadows deepen. And in the morning you look up again through the mists to see the sun lit mountain top as it heralds A STUDY IN REPOSE. the joyous day. Five days in camp at Pigeon Falls were all toc short to drain our cup of happiness, but the shortening days and the increasing coldness and depleted pro- vision bags warned us that it was time to be moving closer the Height of Land where we could beat our retreat. Ac- cordingly in the grey of a cold misty morning while the vapors hung like a cloud upon the lake, obscuring even sig- nal rock above us, we silently took up our packs and one by one derarted up the portage trail through the dark and dripping forest until the roar of the falls had become a. murmur in the distance and we had reached the quiet water for embarkation in the canoe. For six miles we paddled up the mountain bound river until rounding a bend we came into the open water of Manitowick, the Lake _ of the Great Spirit, a large body of water with the mountains forming its shores veiled in the low hanging mists. As I have dealt with Manitowick in a previous volume I cannot repeat more than to say that the immense stretch of water and _ the rock cliffs of old rose crowned with green were as majestic and dominating as they had been years before. By good fortune the waves were not running high to make our progress slow, but Chum, seemed to miss the dash and leap of the waves, which we had encountered two years before, when she had_ been obliged to bail in order to keep the canoe afloat. All the morning, the canoe leaping to the rythmic stroke of five paddles, made rapid progress until at two o’clock, after eight hours hard paddling, we came to the Stony Portage at the upper end ot the lake, and after cooking dinner on the rock, travelled rapidly up the trail until we came to our camping ground beside the big falls at Thunder Pool. Here the waters of a great lake rush for a mile through a mountain gorge and with a roar that is heard for miles plunge into a large basin. Here we remained for nine days fishing the rapids, dream- ing beside the roaring friendship fires and meditating on the rocks within the spray of the falls. Here we received our Indian friends who presented us with venison as they were leaving us, when it was too late for us to reciprocate the gift. Strange to say, in the Forest one does not miss meeting people, indeed though you be alone in a world of complete si- A STUDY IN lence where the only people you can pos- sibly meet are afew honest Ojibways, yet no feeling of loneliness oppresses you, for as Chum remarks ‘‘there at least one can be in good company and away from smail people, and breathe God’s fresh air and revel in his clear sunshine, or in his pure rain, and with your own goodness or badness, be as happy or as miserable as your past life and your con- science will permit.” But in the wilder- ness even your petty vices fall away from you as they cannot possibly live in the temple of the Great Mother Nature; the purity and freshness of the forest drive out all that is foreign to it; the repose and silence of the woods banish all your unrest and the majesty and re- pose of the mountains in their dominance give no room for _ pettiness as they clear your vision with their larger view and each day the Great Mother breathes into your soul renewed and better life. Camping beside a falls even to the forest dwellers gives rise to strange illu- sions and the Ojibways never make their camps near a falls when it is_ possible to camp elsewhere. The Camp at Thunder Pool is a place of many illusions, the constant roar of the water as it thunders ACTION—PIGEON FALLS. into the pool is a thing which is at first disquieting and is apt to induce a tem- porary mood of restlessness, but the ear becomes accustomed to the unremitting roar, and you quickly accept it as an element going to make up the fitness of things. However there are other noises in the rapids that are more subtle than the rush and roar, which are yet heard at times above the deep reverberations. Perchance you have gone out upon the rocks beside the falls to watch the sun- set above the trees encircling the pool; the mighty thunder of the water makes futile any attempt at conversation, so you contentedly watch the purple shad- ows deepening on the pool while above the trees the golden red after glow of the sunset colors the fleecy clouds; then with no sudden change in the noise of the water you slowly become conscious of the sound of a tolling bell. It is by no means a doleful experience, for the bell has the peaceful sound of a village church, it is muffled by the roar of the water; yet it is distinctly heard above the roar of the water. I know a man who camped beside the falls for the first time and the bell note was to him so real that he remarked to his companion, ‘‘Why is pe +! - duce the strain. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. this is Sunday, and the country church bell is ringing” yet he was one hundred miles from any human habitation, It may be you have wrapped up in your blankets for the night and the four walls of your tent deaden the roar of the falls until it has the sound merely of a heavy wind and rain in the autumn among the dead leaves; grad- ually you come to realize that there are voices singing; always in a high key, always female voices, and their song is so real that one could all but repro- Frequently | have been un- able to sleep at night by reason of the singing voices of the falls, pure illu- sion though they be, yet of so much sub- stance as to banish sleep. | There is one illusion which, though having travelled among the Forest peo- ple for years, came to me this year for thefirst time. I had gone above the falls, to fish the rapids alone, and waist deep in the rushing water was engaged in whipping out the flies when suddenly I hearda shrill voice calling my given name twice; so real was the experience that I shouted back suppos- ing of course Chum was calling to me from the bank, and receiving no response -Iwaded ashore and walked down the trail fifty yards giving the long ‘‘Whoo! Whoo!” the Kawazingemas call, but re- ceiving no answering call, I again made i yg ONLY ONE TEPEE REMAINED. 135 my way back to the rapids and while casting I again heard my name called distinctly. On returning to camp I heard none of my party had been within shouting distance of me and none had called my name. Afterwards this illu- sion was not an infrequent experience with myself as well as others of my com- rades, one which was not altogether pleasant as itis a bit weird to hear your name called distinctly in a sharp shrill voice and then to find none within calling distance to ac- knowledge your answering shouts. The illusion of the tolling bell and the singing voices of the falls do not come suddenly upon you, but rather seem to steal slowly in- to your con- sciousness, and while you won- der how the il- lusion is pro- duced yet it does not dis- turb you. But to hear your name suddenly called is so weird and _ baf- fling as tocause you a temporary annoyance; it is an ex- perience I have never had except near a falls andin the forest away from the rushing water no sound of the tolling bells, nor singing voices ever come to you. I have never known a traveler of the Open Places who has not remarked upon the voices of the falls, and the In- dians accustomed to the rushing waters from birth never seem able to escape from the illusion which to them is of such 136 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. reality that they prefer not to camp be- side the roaring water, nor is the Indian aversion due to any superstition concern- ing spirits or phantoms, but is caused merely by the fact that the singing voices prevent them from sleeping. After being in camp at Thunder Pool for five days our provisions were ex- hausted, our bacon was gone, the bags of flour, sugar and corn meal were empty and only tea and rice remained, but calling the Kawazingemas into coun- cil it was unanimously decided to remain in camp until the rice should be ex- hausted; so we decided that we would have but two meals a day and for four days our breakfast and supper consisted of rice, cea, trout, with sometimes duck and venison. Ona Sunday morning on the tenth day at five o’clock we had the last of our rice and tea with trout, and striking camp rapidly travelled up the The Mountains. BY WALTER L. THURTELL. Tier upon tier, as if their crests would pierce The vaulted sky, the mountains upward tower, Rugged and grim, Titanic-pulsed with might, Silent and dark, with caverns deep as night, Eternal in their stark, primeval power. About their heads the thunderbolts oft rage, Adown their side the avalanches sweep, The torrent’s rush, the ’wildering wreathing mist, Shadow and storm, that nothing can resist, Plunge and career among the gorges steep. trail to the end of the Portage for our — dash back to the Height of Land twenty miles up Dog Lake. . we paddled up the Lake against a head wind blowing between the mountains and at one o'clock on rounding a head- land we came within sight of the red roof of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s store; on the plain beyond, where a month before were countless Cree camps, only one tepee remained a study in deso- lation and solitude. One might make the All the morning i sl i mistakein surmising that after a month’s absence, the sight of the redroof shining in thelight of the September sun, wasa joy- ous sight, but we beheld it insullen silence for beyond lay the railroad leading back to the conventional life, and as the canoe grated upon the sand its harsh note told us that The Trail of the Kawazingemas had come to an end. Then comes a change. Mantle of purple light, Snow sparkling gleams that jewel the distant haze, Cloud diadems, halos of circling fleece, Vistas of verdure, zephyrs breathing peace, Brooks, glades and woodland, linked in lovely maze. A land of change, of beauty and of pain, One day in turmoil and the next at rest, Region ot riches, region of rocky waste, Nature’s abode, where all her moods are traced, Where she has wrought her noblest and her best. WABIGOON FALLS. gIIE prairie provinces have been re- T ferred to frequently as “The Last ~ West,” but there is another and a newer west waking in the wilderness that lies north of the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific and west of the Athabasca. There is the Great Peace River of which _ we hear many contradictory stories, but which will become better known in the near future. Already acontract has been let for the first one hundred, miles of the road west from Edmonton, and now two hundred miles more are under contract. This will reach across Grande Prairie, penetrate the Rockies and leave the end of the steel atYellowhead. In the meantime they are building up from Prince Rupert on the Pacific. A magazine writer who has visited the far north, declares that the Peace River country is the happy hunting ground of prospectors and explorers. For many years past the crude congealed petroleum has been used for caulking boats by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the pe- troleum resources of the country have x hej: ae LAKE SUPERIOR BRANCH, GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY. In the “Next West.” been reported on most favorably in the Dominion Geological Reports of 1884, 1896 and 1898. There is no doubt that the enterprise of developing these re- sources is, under the present conditions, extremely difficult, but the development of the country at large is moving so. rapidly that within a few years railway transportation facilities will be provided, and the early pioneers will reap a rich and well deserved reward. The lakes and rivers are full of fish of high excellence, white fish of great size and thickness, maskalonge weighing from twelve to fifteen pounds, and also large delicious lake trout, being amongst the best varieties. A fish company is already in operation at Calling Lake, which expects to export large quantities. No country in the world is entirely with- out drawbacks, however, and the peace- ful Peace River Valley is no exception to the general rule. In common with all unsettled parts of northern Canada, it suffers from a plague of mosquitoes during the early summer months. These 138 will give in time, to tlement, no doubt, as_ that is the experi- ence of the pres- ent North-West Provinces, while the wolves way, set- which are re- ported as_ being sufficiently nu- merous to cause considerable trouble and an- noyance, will not last long when oppose d by the rifles of the hunters and sportsmen ot the future. This, then, is the “Next West” of the im mediate fu- ture—the coun- try whose rare value and pos sibilities has been as yet overshado we d by the rush to the nearer of Canada’s vacant lands. Its mar- velous fertility and potential value cannot be more than out- lined as yet, but it is an aid to those who wish to realize and understand the great and rich heritage of undeveloped country. Slow has been the develop- ment of this district as yet, and slow it will be for some considerable time, until the inrush of emigration has populated the district at present in course of settle- ment. But the consideration of its po- tentialities and the possibilities of the enormous expanse of country of which it is but a tiny part, may give pause to those who announce too loudly that the Last West is now in sight. AT PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. th + pest | GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY. A committee was last year appointed by the Government to investigate the possibilities and resources of the land in Canada north of the settled portions of the Dominion, including the Peace River district. This report, which is just is- sued, fully substantiates all statements which have been made concerning the wonderful fertility and charm of the Valley. According to one witness who has had exceptional opportunities for familiarizing ee PACK TRAIN IN YELLOWHEAD PASS. GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY. DOUKHOBORS AT WORK GRADING MAIN LINE. GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY, STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK, MAIN LINE, GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY, himself with this country and its re- sources, there is in the Peace River sec- tion of the country as much good agri- cultural land fit for settlement, and yet unsettled, as there is settled in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta today. Mr. W. F. Bredin, Member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, who resides at Lesser Slave Lake, after a careful com- putation, estimates the area of agricul- tural lands available in the unorganized territory of Mackenzie and Northern Al- berta at not less than one hundred mil- lion acres. Mr. H. A. Conroy, of the In- dian Department, who has been traveling through the country for eight or nine years, gave some interesting details. From the southeast end of Lesser Slave Lake (he said) to the valley of the Swan Hills, is a beautiful country, some por- tions heavily timbered, other parts open. The finest grass in the world grows there, Blue Top, some of it six or seven feet high. The basin all around the lake is fine agricultural land. The blue grass grows on the high land, not in sloughs. It is a very good grass and does not form sod. Probably four tons to the acre would be a good crop. There is a good deal of open country all around the south side of Lesser Slave Lake. About forty miles north there is some twenty miles of a rolling prairie country. The feed is excellent. The Prairie River country is the finest piece of the North- West that Mr. Conroy has seen. Most of it is level and open with nice bluffs of © timber, mixed with some spruce and poplar. Between the Little Smoky River and the Slave Lake the country is open. Along the banks of the Smoky is very tall fine spruce timber. The country north of Dunvegan, all along the river, is fit for agriculture on both sides, and for a long distance back. The evidence given by Mr. Bredin is fully as favorable from an agriculturat standpoint as that given by Mr. Conroy. His judgment is that from the Mountains to Peace Point, a distance of seven or eight hundred miles, and for an average of seventy-five miles back on each side — of the Peace River, there is a tract of land fully equal to the soil on any sim-- ilar length of the. Saskatchewan. A great deal of it is clean prairie especially on the north side, the balance being cov- ered with scrub and smalltimber. With — CONON LAKE, MAIN LINE. ROCK CUT ON THE MAIN LINE. GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY. GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY. ae 142 ROD AND GUN regard to its possibilities for ripening grain and vegetables, Mr. Bredin said that on his own ranch at Grand Prairie he had raised vegetables and oats every year for six years. He has had cattle there for five winters, and the average length for feeding them during the five years was six weeks each winter. All the country is good for stock. Both slough and upland hays are abundant. Pea vine and all the usual North-West small fruits grow there. At Lesser Slave Lake they have had magnificent crops. Mr. F. S. Lawrence of Fort Vermil- lion, showed the Committee a sample of No. 1 Hard Wheat raised in the Peace River country in 1906, It was an aver- age sample of 22,000 bushels held, at the time he obtained it, in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s mill at Fort Vermillion. The grain raised there for some time past has been of the quality known as the Ladoga. This has changed so materially from the sample originally obtained from the Ottawa Experimental farm that it AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA now bears no resemblance; the original stock being a soft wheat, while the sam- ple produced is as hard as Red Fife. As to the soil, many supposed that the Peace River Valley, as a valley, was a low-lying section of land in the bottom of the river. Mr. Lawrence has farmed at Vermil- lion for over twenty years and has never had a failure in wheat in that time. There is no rust. He has raisedas high as sixty-six bushels of wheat to the acre. That was the biggest yield and was ac- complished without the aid of fertilizer. All the witnesses were agreed as to the great quantity of timber to be found in the Peace River country and adjacent territory. The spruce is large and fit for saw-logs some being three feet across the stump. All the rivers have belts of timber on their banks except where the fires have destroyed it, and most of it is spruce and black bark poplar, the latter growing quite large, as much as three to four feet through the stay, Passenger Pigeons. BYR. |W. Wes OME time in the early ‘‘Forties” I readan elaborate account of the doings of the passenger pigeon of America and the enormous number visit- ing the beach woods, during breeding time, and how they broke down large trees by their weight. The story seemed so improbable that I set it downasa ‘‘vankee story”; nevertheless it added largely to my desire to leave England, where | was not allowed to carry a gun, except by paying a licence and after that I was not permitted to kill birds or rab- bits except ‘‘on my own land’’-—of which I did not own a toot. Every new story read about game in America, and its free use to the settlers, fired my ee to see for myself. In 1840 an uncle of mine, aa had lived in the county of Oxford for some years,returned to England,and his stories won my father’s fancy to emigrate : but my mother’s friends prevailed SAWTELL. on him to remain in England ; by giving up the lease of their farm to him, and he remained till 1845. When I was in my twentieth year, and had the migratory fever bad, I determined to come alone, but having prepared tor the event he could not resist the temptation to come and all the family also. Like so many emigrants of that date we imagined that we could not purchase any- thing here, and supplied ourselves with loads of stuff, we had better have left in England. Guns, ammunition and musi- ° cal instruments, however proved of some use. The first fall there were thousands of black squirrels fattened on corn, and © in the absence of lamb and pork served : a good purpose. We frequently secured specimens of drumming pheasants, swamp rabbits and occasionally a deer ; but we were disap- pointed on the whole. to shoot where and when you liked, but — Here was freedom . ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA seldom found anything worth the powder. I have been looking over my diary of 1846-7 and find an occasional record of a pheasant, rabbit, or coon, and in the spring of 1846 a few wild pigeons. In 1847, however, I find on the date of April 8th that there were ‘“‘millions—so dense were they crowded together that they not only darkened the sun but the whole vault of the heavens. For an hour or two be- fore sundown they were passing from west to east, to their roosting place, and seldom could we get a sight ofthe blue sky. The noise of their wings was like continuous thunder, and when passing over beechwoods they dropped down in such immense numbers that in turning over the dead leaves, in search for nuts. they filled all space.’’. It was during one ot these drops that I fired and brought down sixty-six birds ata shot, but this seemed a waste of powder for we could get all we wanted by using a pole or long stick. Thus, we had more ‘‘poultry” than we needed, and soon tired of the _ 143 beech nut flavor. It so happened that a gentlemen with whom I spent my last winter in England, shooting rabbits, came here at the great gathering of pigeons—this year 1847— and we had a fine time together. We followed the trails of the pigeons ten miles across East Zorra, Blandford and part of Blenheim, to see the pigeons in their roosting places. They occupied thou- sands of acres of the virgin woods,and the noise made was so defening we could not make each other hear a word. They crowded the treesso much that dead limbs, and occasionally green onces broke under the great weight, and thousands fell, but rose again to seek other trees. The presence of the pigeons this year surpassed in numbers the description I had readin England. In fact it would be hard to exaggerate the facts, particularly in numbers. Where they came from, and where they went, I can give no in- formation. They remained for some time but how long my diary does not state. Babbling of Bass. A Hundred Mile Search After the Gamey Beauties. BY C. H. HOOPER. PART SL: @aiVEN ahard day’s toil in the open | air, followed by a preposterously = large meal and only one result is possible—sound sleep. Besides the above requirements, we had now settled down travelling. All the packing up to be off, all the anxiety regarding necessities pos- sibly forgotten, all the shaking down incident to having a green hand at the bow paddle, and the consequent delays in getting things done—all were now passed and done with. We slept with quiet minds. We had left the old headquarters five days before, travelled per trail and water-ways some twenty miles, and had reached our long sought for lake. Here we had loafed for three days at ‘‘Camp Perfection” in the midst of solitudes, scenery and bass, until erring human nature had reasserted itself and, not content with the goods the gods had sent, we must needs go farther, and as it proved fare worse. Fastening upon the Boy at first,but soon communicating itself to me, the travelling fever had resulted in our determination to make a hundred mile recognisance in the vicinity of our ideal lake. For thelast two days, therefore, we had slid down with the current farther and farther away from our ideal, taking the rapids with an ever increasing con- fidence until after two days of this blithe some work an insignificant strip of white water had bid us halt. This was at sun set so that an immediate camp to await the morning sun to dry our repairs be- came imperative. In the morning while the Boy prepared the breakfast, I overhauled the three pun- ctures,sustained on our last little descent, and at nine o’clock, as tight as a bottle, the old canoe was again under way. But increasing signs of civilization warned us of our nearapproach to a town. Soon it appeared. 144 We carried over the inevitable dam and slowly paddled through the place. It appeared a singularly sleepy spot, so, stopping only to post a letter, we left it behind. Beyond it the current did not again appear and, as we entered a broad marsh, the channel lay straight before us, evidently deepened to form some sort of waterway to the town. For six miles, through this marshy drowned land we plied the paddles stead- ily with a blazing sun above, and nota breath of wind to temper the heat. We wondered at the disappearance of the current, our best friend of the previous day, and at midday the cause appeared in a Government dam and _ lock, giving access, for small craft, from the thirty mile stretch of open lake beyond, to the little town through which we had passed. Truly civilization had appeared. At a general store at the river’s mouth we laid in a few necessities and pushed out into the great expanse of island studded water before us. We loitered along the right hand shore; things be- gan to grow tame to us, we became dis- contented. Cottages appeared upon all the islands, a hideous sign, ‘‘Private Property” loomed up before us; horrors ! atin water chute came into view, and presently the end came. From far out in the lake, almost imperceptible at first, but steadily growing in volume, came the utterly abominable ‘‘put-put-putting”’ of a gasoline launch! ‘‘The limit,” said the Boy simply. No further criticism seemed necessary. By this time his paddie was merely marking time. There was not an ounce in his strokes to help the canoe. The fever had gone, and had left him languid and disgusted with the environments our long loop had led us into. We went ashore and languidly com- menced a snack, sitting on the rocks with bare feet in the water, the canoe, as it were, a table across ourknees. ‘‘Only two nights ago,’’ mumbled the Boy, through a mouthful of sardines, ‘‘only two nights ago a wild cat screamed near our tent, and now,” indignantly, with a comprehensive sweep of his bread and butter, ‘‘this!’’ A woman’s laugh came to us over the water, not a particularly pleasant one either. He shuddered. the earth, ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA For a week the Boy had been close to seeing things as they are. For the first time his town bred nature had expanded under the charm of silence and of solitude. Among Nature’s orig- inal works his mind had become— a mansion for all lovely forms, his— ‘memory a dwelling place For all sweet sounds and harmonies;’’ Out of this fairyland of eye and ear— ‘‘both what they half create And what perceive” — he had been rudely wakened ty the sud- den plunge into crowded ways again, and the revulsion of feeling was to be expected. I felt the same myself, and we both became so absorbed in melan- choly reflections that with eyes wide open, facing the water we quite failed to notice the canoe drifting slowly away from our feet. Presently, with a yell I dropped everything and, rushing out to waist deep seized the truant. Not till I actually laid hands on her did the Boy | realize the cause of my sudden move- ment. Then we laughed, and the spell was broken. Once more under weigh, we drove the canoe along, cursing the steamboats and launches it is true, but cheerful un- der the assurance that having once cleared this lake, our further trip, through a chain of smaller ones, would take us further and further from these noisy distractions, ‘‘until we reach ‘Our’ dear old lake” as the Boy remarked. Thus, spontaneously, the designation which we had unconsciously used for the last few days grew into aname. At sunset we camped on a well used picnicing spot and, from a nearby farmer obtained some milk. During ‘‘grub” a succession of curious people rowed past, audibly remarking on our delapidated appearance. .That was distinctly rude. No doubt we did look rather like Indians, we had worked hard enough to_ look so, what if my toes did stick out of my left shoe, a week’s beard decorate that part of my face which the sun had left un- painted and my hair innocent tor the same length of time of comb or brush, wave picturesquely in sixteen ways at once? Whatif the Boy’s trousers had grown in a week the color of night and and uci NOTHING OVER THREE AND A HALF OR UNDER TWO POUNDS IN THE TOP ROW. carried upon them traces of every meal that we had eaten; and what if his shirt, perforce could not be buttoned? What if he did always move about decorated around the middle with dangerous look- ing hardware? Had nota wild cat once come nearthe tent, and might it not come again? Anyway it was none of their business how we looked, or if our tent was dirty Khaki color. instead of glaring white, like the rest we had seen, so conspicuous along the shores. They annoyed us, so, turning our backs on them, we fed, throwing well aimed empty tins quite ac- cidentally over our shoulders in their di- rection. Whereat they became more rude, but moved away. Who cannot remember the thirty-six hour gale, from the northwest, that blew over all Ontario last summer about the end of July? From all sides I have heard of the same. To those who were in towns or on only narrow waters, it mattered little; but to the army of us who, in those -days had to cross wide lakes and bays, it mattered much. By good luck, we had camped on the north- ern shore of the lake, and when morning broke, did not quite realize what was in store. By the time that breakfast was over, it began to dawn on us that our work lay cut out and ready. Waiting until the gale had chopped a little more to the north, we started, hug- ging the shore and struggling as best we could against the fierce blasts which assailed us at the mouths of bays. By four o’clock we had thus crawled some five miles, and still had fifteen before we reached the Upper lake, another stretch of twelve. Now a deep bay opened up to the north and out of it the white horses rolled, swinging and surg- ing along before the hard drive, of the pouring gale. It was only three hun- dred yards across, but to cross itina light canoe with another man would have been ticklish work; to attempt it in a loaded one with a boy, would have been most foolhardy. The Boy entreated, knowing nothing of the look of a ‘‘bad place,” but I wouldn’t budge. It was maddening to have to stop with but a short stretch to cover again, it seenied so foolish, but [ reflected that one would 146 look still more foolish clinging to an overturned canoe in that sea without a soul in sight to give a hand, and a three mile stretch of open lake to leeward. For four leaden: hours we watched that crossing until, just as the dusk be- gan to settle down, a lull occurred. We put across at racing speed, even then having to humor the rollers with the nicest care, and reached the high bluff on the opposite side as the gale swept down again, and the heaving waves at once broke into foaming ridges, gleaming palely in the growing dusk. We were in high spirits now. Having seized the moment, we could avail ourselves of a high weather shore to steal along. The Boy suddenly proposed paddling all night. This wasa large order, but we yearned to get out of that huge open expanse where one remained at the mercy of every random wind. I knew he couldn’t do it, but said that we would try and see. As the temperature was falling, we donned our sweaters and proceeded. A half moon lighted us on our way, and high above the gale howled in the trees as we creptalong the rocky shore. Now and then, from some break in the shore line a sudden rush of wind would strike us, bringing up the canoe dead still as if she had struck a rock. We crouched low crossing such gaps for the force of the wind was like the push of a shoulder. Hour after hour we drove along, changing sides at intervals. Conversa- tion languished and in silence the pad- dles rose and fell. About one a. m. I felt my knees growing stiff, from the oc- casional spray which found its way in- board while crossing breaks in the shore line. At the same moment the Boy pro- posed camping. It was the first word he had said for an hour, and I had been wondering at his prolonged silence. In the gloom we found a spot, .un- loaded, hoisted up and overturmed the canoe, pegged out and hoisted the tent. Then I noticed that the Boy was weak. Jostling against him in the dark, I found him as cold as ice. This looked serious and I assumed the role of. M. D., feeling his pulse—hardly perceptible. It ap- peared that for the last two hours he had been wet through with the = spray ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. that I had escaped, and that the wind had half frozen him for all his sweater. He had said nothing, so much for game- ness. A fire was out of the question. I hada better way. For just such an emergency I had brought a flask of rye. Opening it now I ordered the patient to takea dose. With a sip of water first, and another after, holding his nose during the operation, I managed to make him take it. In five minutes his circulation was restored, appetite returned, and a severe cold, if not worse, averted. It is on such occasions as this that one finds the real use of spirits. : On the second day of the ‘‘great wind” we awoke late. Still the white horses raced down the lake; still the trees above us rocked in the blast, and still the sky © remained almost cloudless as on the pre- vious day. Disgustedly we settled into what proved to be our hardest day’s work. Leave the confounded lake that day we were, determined on, and if pos- sible before another meal. Until noon we pegged along fairly well, keeping under cover of the northern shore. By this means we certainly went farther than necessary but to ‘‘paddle the line” was out of the question. At last we reached the Upper lake and, pausing on the short carry between, we surveyed the last stretch before us, and more sheltered waters. It looked very bad indeed—a perfectly open stretch, and lying more to the west. Thus the northern shore, though very high and bluff, afforded little protection. We made a difficult startin the sea that was beating on shore, and, grunting at the paddles edged slowly over to the best shelter we could get along ‘the bluffs. Some of these presented the appearance of capes and bold headlands, picturesque no doubt, but claiming little admiration from us now. With heads low and shoulders humped we dug away with short quick strokes, heading dead on the sea and crawling doggedly forward, for the end was now in sight. At five p. m., pretty well ‘‘all in” we reached the distant shore at the head of the lake. Not till we actually touched it could we ‘‘let up” for a moment. Even in the calm water here, the blasts Mm Sh od Hd Mal , a ae a ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 147 raced down through the high rolling hills and shoved the canoe about, shooting past in black fleeting squalls on the sur- face. ‘‘Thank the Lord, that rotten place,” grunted the Boy, slowly straightening his cramped knees and endeavoring to stand upright. I wont repeat my own remarks. upon this occasion. If the reader has any imagin- ation he will be quite able to supply the omission. » The wind had not done with us yet. _ We carried over here into a small dam, crossed it and, after a much longer carry, reached a little mile long lake, sandy on the southern and high and precipitate on the northern shore. Even here the white caps beat on the shore and it took usa solid hour to struggle to the farther end. Then we stopped to have ‘‘grub.”’ But the Boy’s blood was up.. ‘‘Let’s get into the next lake before night”, was hiscry. It seemed unnecessary, as we had left civilization behind now and sev- eral good camping spots lay near. As the inlet from the next water above lay at hand, we decided totry. Following the stream through all its many wind- ings, after a couple of miles we reached the last of our series of lakes, easily the most picturesque of the lot. High hills surrounded it, and here and there an island broke the expanse of waters. But the waves rolled on the shore even here, though the fierceness had fled from the gusts and we knew thatthe gale had blown itself out at last. Car- rying over an obstruction, we paddled rapidly to a delightful little point, sandy, and flanked by cedars. As darkness fell we reached the spot and soon had the camp in order. By this time, pitching camp had become the work of a very few minutes, one soon learns to do only the very necessary things. Then for the first time for two days we sat leisurely down to a meal without athought of hurry or work still ahead. After all our hard tussle we reflected that we had not done so badly. We had covered about forty miles in two days andanight, and during the heaviest gale of the season. We began to think a little better of ourselves. ‘‘Many, no doubt,” sagely remarked my companion, “have hugged the camp through all this we're out of. blow; they dont know what they’ve missed.’’ We began to feel quite con- ceited about it at last, and sat out on our point until late in the night in all the high good humor and contentment that hard work done alone can give. The loons welcomed us back to the wilds. Three of them flew back and forth over our heads calling wildly to each other. What a difference in this to the sounds that had distracted us two days ago! Asthe loon isa survivor of an early geological period, I have always associated him with the primeval. In his variety of notes one can hear acry from a far off time, a time when history had not begun, when time can only be measured not in years but in eras. An utterly mournful, lonely cry itis. With such quiet thoughts, in the strange calm of a perfectly still night, we turned into the blankets well content. It was late when we awoke next day, and, being Sunday, we took our time over breakfast andthe first dip. But the turmoil of the last two days had so stirred up the waters, that the latter process proved a chilly affair. The question arose again, how abaut a place in which to spend our summers? Since leaving ‘‘Our Lake” we had cov- ered about ninety miles, but had seen nothing that pleased our fancy better. Most of the lakes through which we had passed were hopelessly out of the question. Inthe best, civilization was apparent; in the worst it was paramount. Our present site pleased us, decid- edly pretty; hills, almost to be dignified by the term of mountains, surrounded us. Islands appeared here and there. The fishing of course was conjectural, though I had met a man who had been here. He had caught black bass, he said, but appeared too curious about the places I had fished. For one who ex- pressed himself content he seemed strangely anxious to try elsewhere. But the place was small. Allowing for future cottagers, the fishing was bound tosuffer. We decided to move on. _ Leisurely poking along we found the inlet and started up the stream. Judging from its size not much remained beyond. After a couple of miles of vigorous poling we reached a point where further progress 148 was impossible. Here we stuck and proceeded to scout for a clearing. Luck- ily we had come just far enough, and a settler’'s hut soon appeared. We struck a bargain with him to team the outfit over the three miles that lay between us and Our Lake. The last of the series of waters lying at the head of this stream, we abandoned as our Jehu in- formed us that it was no great thing. At four o’clock, af ter two hours on the usual kind of ‘froad,” we reached the ex- treme eastern arm of Our Lake. This was a part of it absolutely un- known to us, So that it was with the vaguest ideas that we set out to find our oldcamp at “Endiang.” These northern lakes are hor- ribly alike. I have taken ten dozen photos on a two hun- dred and fifty ait bei t'¢ 1p through them, and been una- ble afterwards to distingui sh and place more than two-thirds. The islands all bear a family resemblance, likewise the points and channels. The same second growth occurs, the same deep inky water and _ rocky shores. With the compass to guide us we threaded our way through a network of channels and by five o'clock had defin- itely recognized a stumpy bay which we had passed on our way down the lake a week before. Here we knew Camp Per- fection to be but three miles distant, so, A TEN POUND SALMON TROUT. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA with a short stop for a drink, we swung along the last lap of our hundred mile loop. To avoid a two mile detour round a long point, we carried over a narrow neck opposite the island and in a few minutes more had completed our trip. We immediately celebrated the fact with a monumental feed. A bouillon was again pre- pared, into which was thrown ever y- thing eatable about the camp; that’s the beauty of the dish. One can dispose of so many odds andends. Fish, fowl, meat, veg- etables, bread, eggs, rice, bar- ley, dough, bis- cuits and every- thing else that one is tired of seeing: about the camp can all be putin. In fact, the more hetero- geneous the in- g redients, the more thoroughly satisfactory the dish. After this had disappeared, a long cherished tin ot pineapple was broached, divided with scrupulous ex- actness and con- sumed, in the twinkling of a sheath knife. The mere quantity that one eats in camp always surprises one. One takes to one’s self the supply of, say marma- lade, that would be deemed sufficient on a civilized table for a family of four. As to fish, one of a pound and a half, to each of us was enough for a meal, while in the matter of tea and coffee, well, our mugs held a_ pint, and were oftén filled twice. Undoubtedly one lives lus- tily in camp, working well, eating and feet of an upturned ROD AND GUN AND/MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA "149 drinking well, and sleeping well. We now had two weeks left to explore Our Lake, before we had to leave the district. Sallying out from our base at *“‘Endiang” island, we poked about, fish- ing, photographing, bathing, examining the rocks, rich in mica and other min- erals of which we were ignorant, and making short trips inland. On one of these latter we discovered a settler’s house and farm. From here we obtained fresh milk, eggs, butter and home madebread. Truly there. is some comfort in the wilds. We astonished this good pioneer much I| fear. Having written a letter on birch bark, I handed it to him with the request that he post it for me on his next trip to the settlement. He took it gingerly, examined it care- fully, sitting in his chair andslowly wag- ging his head in puzzled surprise. ‘*Surely to God,” he burst out at last, ‘‘I neverseen the like of that!” Then shouting for his good wife, he showed her the curiosity. But one must get far indeed from cities to experience such kindness and hospitality as these good people showed us. To us it was a rev- elation, yet they thought nothing of it, and to them we must suppose it seemed the most natural way to treat a stranger. ‘‘That best portion of a good man’s ‘life. The little unrementbered acts of kind- ness and of love.” One morning, passing quietly through a channel filled with logs and stumps, an excited whisper from the Boy, ‘‘Look at the otter, look at the otter,’’ made me glance all ways at once. The canoe dritted along while the Boy tugged des- perately at his ‘‘gun.” Then, within twenty feet of the bow, beside a project- ing log, something flopped into the water and disappeared. Knowing that we had not disturbed him seriously, we returned in the afternoon, unlimbered and ready for business. For the life of me I could not see the creature amid the hun- dreds of logs before us. ‘‘There he is,” whispered my lynx eyed comrade and I[ silently moved the canoe in the direction indicated. When within perhaps thirty root the ‘‘gun”’ spoke, but the otter, whose head was turned from us dived unharmed. We practiced with that wretched machine afterwards and found that at ten feet, one might possibly hit a man, by aiming at his feet and asking him to stand very still. It was the ordinary 32 cal. light, short barreled useless thing, that us- ually kills the wrong person, and is ab- solutely of no service on small game. In a quarrel with a man, an axe would be more satisfactory; with any smaller antagonist, give me a bow and arrow in preference. Another afternoon the Boy attempted to stalk a couple of ducks which had alighted in atiny bay near at hand. They were not, of course, in season, but knowing the weapon, I cheerfully gave leave, promising to follow in the canoe to pick up the bag. The Boy departed, vente a terre through the second growth © to the shore. Presently the ‘‘gun” spoke, and at regular intervals, each of its six shots was fired. Then came a pause, and again the steady crack, crack, crack began. Wondering what it was all about, I climbed leisurely into the canoe and paddled round the point. By this time eleven rounds had been fired. I found the Boy prone behind a log waiting for me. It appeared that one duck had been found asteep, the other feeding. At the sleeping victim, the Boy had opened fire at a ten yard range, dropping his shots in a circle at varying distances from the unconscious bird. After the sixth round the duck had awakened and he informed me ‘‘began to feed.” Cer- tainly they were very ‘‘unacquainted with man,” for they were still there, though becoming a little alarmed. I took the Boy on board and slowly edged up tothe ducks crowding them in towards the shore. Presently they sprang into the air and whizzed past us atsome ten feet distance and the “sun” said its last word. Nota feather stirred. Those ducks, I have since con- cluded, must have witnessed our pre- vious practice—they knew the ‘‘gun.” By the end of the week we were al- most, I say almost, tired of fishing. The capture of bass here seemed so easy that we, who used to tire out our companions daily in our ardor, even we began to have enough. Then we had 150 only the artificial minnow, now com- pletely scored with teeth marks from pike and doree, and perhaps that lent a sameness to the day’s sport. On Saturday night therefore, we sol- emnly vowed that from sunrise to sunset on the following day, we would not wet aline. Having made the vow, we felt quite pleased with ourselves for our ‘‘Sabbath observance.’’ Not many, we reflected, placed as we were in the pick of” Ontario fishing and far from the influ- ence of civilized codes, would voluntar- ily give up a whole day’s fishing out of respect to the sanctity of the day. We grew quite eloquent about it at length, severely censuring the conduct of others whom we had seen on other Sabbaths engaged in their godless pursuits. The Boy called to mind stories out of illus- trated books from his recent childhood, and from them drew harrowing pictures of the end of such evil doers. Finally we decided to spend the day quietly taking photographs and in target prac- tice. There were many places which we had wished to take near the camp; the cliffs behind the island, the marrow rock “gateway,” the ‘painted rocks” white quartz barred with salmon color and light blue, and other interesting things. We had always intended doing this but could not give a whole day to it before. All the next day we climbed hills, lug- ging the heavy tripod and 5x7 camera with us. The telescopic arrangement, with its seventeen inch draw proved in- valuable. At one point, I was endeav- oring to stand on an overhanging ledge a couple of feet from the water and at the same time set the camera and secure a difficult view. third time, clutched at the legs to keep the ‘‘whole show” from toppling into the water, the Boy made one of his startling discoveries. A large school of bass was leisurely swimming about below us, and could be plainly seen less than ten feet away mov- ing slowly, Occasionally coming to the surface and rolling over in a luxurious fashion fairly tantalizing. Oh for our rod and tackle! The size of the monsters filled us with sorrow, and the camp was a mile away. Just as I had, for the: ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. ‘‘We promised not to wet a line,” at . last my companion shouted, ‘‘but noth- © ing about wetting bullets” and out again came his ‘‘deadly weapon.” When a bass broke the surface the Boy unloosed a slug in his direction, sometimes com- ing within four feet of his’mark. To this accompaniment I proceeded to se- cure my photo. Presently the regula- tion six shots had been fired and the weapon was sheathed, satisfaction being apparently expressed on both sides. | That evening the fishing fever returned with double force, and it occurred to us that on not one day so far had we kept strict tally of our catch in bass to sub- mit to those we had left at the old head- quarters. : The next day, we started from ‘‘En- diang” at about nine a. m. fishing stead- ily until four p.m. We used our one rod alternately, never passed twice over the same ground and kept exact tally on a sheet of bark of the weight of every bass we caught. The pike and doree we disregarded, for it was bass and bass only which had brought us here, and which would be our argument for moving. At about three-thirty it oc- curred to ine that we would see the settler that evening and that he might like some fish. It didn’t occur to me that his ice house was _ always full of them from his Sunday catches. We blamed ourselves for not having thought of it sooner as the big- gest bass could then have been kept for him. However we decided to keep the last nine fish no matter of what size or species. Of course the last nine were small, consisting of seven bass and two doree. Curiously enough the last of these nine proved the largest, the one on the left hand of the picture scaling exactly four pounds. This lot the Boy photographed at camp before we took them to our friend. In the fire light that night, after ‘“‘grub” was done we cast up the day’s score. Between nine and four, using ~ but the one artificial minnow we had landed and weighed fifty-three small. ~ mouthed black bass. Their aggregate weight proved to be one hundred .and THE END OF twelve pounds, which gives the average of two and one-eighth pounds apiece, a high one. This means of getting at the size of the fish in a new lake is much the most dependable. The average cannot deceive if over a dozen fish are caught. One is inclined to remember only the large ones afterwards and thus thinks of the fishing in any waters as better than it really is. It isthe little ones however that make such havoc of the expected average. The photo above of thirty-four black bass, (four large mouthed) looks well for the result of two rods ina day. There is nothing over three and a half or under two in the top row but all the small ones below bring down theaverage to adisappointing one and a quarter pounds. During our last week at Camp Perfection we definitely decided to put up Our shack here on the island, which by now we were calling ‘‘Endiang”’ or ‘‘home.” Our last day broke gloriously, a per- fectly clear, still, clear cut, fall like day. We were up betimes, took our last dip and with a brisk fire soon had the por- ridge boiled, bass, cooked and toast THE) TRIP. made. We had found that bread even two weeks old could be made delicious by simple toasting. We lingered over everything that morning. It is hard to foresake a place where one has lived every instant of the day from the rising to the setting of the sun; where the hours have rolled alltoo swiftly into days, and the days into weeks. Disagreeable things must sometimes be done though, and so it.was now. We put out the last fire, always a sad act, like extinguishing a life, then un- slung the lug-pole, placing two crossed evergreen sprays in the ashes to apprize all and sundry, who would know, com- ing that way that the spot was vacant for the next wayfarer of the woods and waters. After carrying through the narrow ‘‘gateway’’ into the long open lake through which we had passed in coming down to Endiang, we repacked the canoe, considerably lighter than when we last came that way, and settled down to a steady swing which sent us along merrily. An ever widening V of wake opened behind us on the placid surface even to 152 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA the shore. The sun climbed up from the clear horizon behind us flooding the whole scene with splendor. I sent the old Taounyawatha straight up the centre of the wide expanse to get the fullreality of the breathless morning. Then, when far out in the very middle we could feel that here indeed was elbow room for our crowded fancies.. At the half way is- land, the last of our yesterday’s milk was divided, a drop left in the flask shaken in to legalize the toast, and then resting on the thwarts with mug in one hand and upraised paddle in the other, I gave the words, ‘‘To Our Lake, to Camp Perfection and to Endiang,’’ while the last six shots from the weapon in the bow cracked out in the dead silence of the brilliant morning. On the last half of the stretch the Boy proposed a con- cluding verse to the now interminable epic of Our Lake. By a fearful mental struggle we wrenched the following into rhyme and rhythm; as we neared the shore, hastily improvising a most pious cl >sing: “But all things terrestrial, unlike the celestial Must come to an end, and our must move, tent we From Sault Ste. Marie come reports as to the ravages of the wolves in Al- goma* A. Dowlson reported discovering fifteen dead deer, John Boynton, nine, and George Waldon seven, all in the township of Searchmont or close by, and in all cases deaths were attributed to the wolves. George Dugle of Groscap found two dead deer and saw a couple of wolves near that place. John Munro reported finding two deer apparently killed by wolves twenty-eight miles from Searchmont. Mr. McCaley discovered no less than twenty-two carcasses of deer all killed by wolves near Goulais Bay. Ben Riel of Groscap tells a story of meeting two wolves on the road about a mile from his house. He had no gun at the time but hurried to the house for a rife. On his return he could not find the wolves but saw two deer which the wolves had apparently killed. There are many reports of increases amongst the wolves in Algoma and the raising of the And pass through the ‘‘connection” to the last Camp Perfection % Which awaits us we trust in the realms above.” My companion was so struck with the tone of this concluding stanza that he’ proposed finishing with a sonorous seven- fold Amen. This, however was voted down. We found our driver, and in the course of about two hours were again afloat on the home waters. But how tame everything looked, how familiar. If we had done nothing else, at least we had spoiled our appreciation of the place. It now became imperative to get rid of the old shanty. Ten minutes. before ‘‘train time” on the last day of the holidays I received an offer. A month later the place had changed hands Our old friend at Our Lake was communicated with and prom- ised to have the new shack up by the spring. Nothing remained but to spend the intervening months in pleasant retrospect of the summer which had gone, and to live in pleased anticipation of that which is to come. bounty might be the means of leading to a diminuation in their numbers, if not clearing them out. That some game wardens do their duty despite all -the difficulties they have to encounter, is shown by the conduct of John W. Robinson, of New Brunswick. He heard of an infraction of the game law by John W. McNaughton, one of the councillors for Glenely, Northumberland county, and camped on his trail for six weeks securing evidence against him. At the end of that time the case was so complete that McNaughton did not con- test it, admitting that he killed a bull moose on January second, which is close season, and submitting toa fine of $50 and costs. The moral effect of this case is likely to be felt throughout the Prov- ince and even beyond its confines. It is only right when so much is heard in crit- icism of game wardens that such a case of energetic work by one of their num- ber should also be recorded. =e hole which was in the right place. flows in a very ONE OF THE MOOSE HEADS. Two Moose Heads. / HE above cut shows Foster, one of the guides of the Mississaga coun- try in Ontario at the tunnel onthe -Mississaga, and the kind of moose an- tlers that can be got there. Mr. Foster is pointing with his finger at the bullet No doubt the maker of the rifle would like to know what rifle it was that did the trick, but the records are silent on that point. The lower cut shows the antlers bought by the C. P. R. from George Linklater. The spread is nearly seventy- five inches. The strong resemblance to the other antlers and one or two others that have been obtained, of the same shape, would go to show that this spread is typical of the Mississaga country. Linklater’s antlers have undoubtedly the largest spread of any moose killed in the East up to date. This spread is rarely _~ excelled, even in Alaska. The Ontario Government has a forest reserve of some five thousand miles, through which the Mississaga River swift way. Fortu- nately the head waters of the river can be reached by rail, and you go down stream to the Soo Branch of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway; therefore, the journey is as easy as it is swift and at- tractive from the scenic point of view. The Record Head is badly drawn from a photograph. It will be photographed ‘later. A FAMOUS ONTARIO MOOSE HEAD. The Record Head of 1908. At the Portage, Petawawa River, Algonquin National Park, Grand Trunk Railway System. A School Boy’s Search for an Ideal Vacation. OUR years ago, my father, brother and I, were seated at the foot of the Victoria statue, on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, dis- cussing the all important subject of vacation. After a long and spirited debate we decided to go to England that summer. So we started off. Everything went well during the first couple of days. We enjoyed the trip down the St. Lawrence im- mensely but on the morning of the third day a huge storm struck us. The captain said it was ‘‘the worst storm he had ever experienced,” but | suppose he told that story every trip ; nevertheless my little brother of six was the only passenger at breakfast BY HAROLD G. The Author. SALTON. that morning. The members of the crew said it looked very funny to see such a small boy being waited on by seven waiters. We arrived in the Old Land safely, having had on the whole, a very pleasant trip. We spent about five weeks in England, dashing ° from place to place, all the time trying to take in as many of the sights as possible. The return voyage was avery monotonous one. On the morning after our arrival home, one might see three pale tired people wend- ing their way to the same old spot on Parliament Hill to discuss the holiday. This was the conclusion we arrived at: that although we hada very. pleasant and extremely in- Pias ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA structive trip, yet it cost us more than the fun was worth. We hurried too much to derive the needed energy for the win- -ter’s work and as light amuse- ments and men- tal _ relaxation aretheessentials ofatrue holiday, we decided that our English tour did not fill the bill. The next June found us worry- ing over the same old prob- lem of vacation. time we went tothe other extreme and bought a seclud- ed estate in Quebec, twenty-eight miles from the nearest railroad station, over some of the worst roads I have ever seen. This kind of a place just suited me to perfection in many respects. There was fishing, hunt- ing, bathing and boating, and almost everything one could desire. However it was too lonely for the women of the party, as the nearest person was Sandy, an In- dian, living in a hut at the end of the adjacent lake four miles away. After a while I began to get a little tired of it, as it was almostinvarably up to me to go over the two Lakes—L ady Lakeand Hawke Lake—and up a mile and a_ half hill, to the near- est farm house for provisions, at least two or three times a week. One night about ten o’clock Olis Whelan, from Ot- tawa, and I were coming through the por- tage between the two lakes staggering COMING HOME ; THE QUEBEC COTTAGE. 155 under a hundred pounds apiece when we hearda wolf within fifty yards ofus. The an- imal followed us closely till we embarked on the second lake. Of course we were not the least bit afraid; nevertheless we decided to pass through this portage earlier in the evening in future, as _ there might be more than one wolf next time. When the fol- lowing spring arrived and we were Starting for our accustomed council meet, mother did not plead or even request us to return to the’ resort of the previous year. This time we decided to split the difference between the rush of England and the quiet of the forestand go to Ocean Grove, N. J. In Ocean Grove there was very little to do, with the exception of a little bathing, or promenading up and down the board walk, in the burning sun amidst a noisy crowd of holiday seek- ers. The few days when it was calm enough to bathe in the sea, was to my mind, the only redeeming feature. The summer holidays come but once a year and I felt they were for a defin- ite purpose. This kind of a holiday was nothing but a waste of time. In the Spring of the year 1905 we took things more de- liberately and left ourselves lots of time to ponder over the same old vital question. NOTHING DOING. DREAMING THE HAPPY HOURS AWAY. Burnt Lake, Algonquin National Park, Grand Trunk Railway System. At length we decided totry Algonquin National Park. So for this purpose we had a portable house built in Davidson's factory where we had the pleasure of de- signing and supervising the construction. This enabled us as the work went on, to add many novel touches of our Own invention to economize space orto increase the comfort ; never theless it was built on strictly portable lines,for who knew but we would be ofl seeking some new place by the ‘ time twelve months more had flown. We managed to erect our cot- tage on the best OCEAN GROVE : NOT MANY IN BATHING TODAY. point in Cache Lake before the ice melted. On the twenty fourth of May we went up ; this trip was taken more. to get things settled for the summer than any- thing else. We only fished a couple of times during this trip, as it was a little too early and we could not get proper bait. However we caught seven good sized ones between the three of us in about half an hour, trolling up and down White Lake, which is about a mile up the Madawaska from _ Cache Lake. Since our first visit we eS ee When I first occupied one of these ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA OUR .TENT. have availed ourselves of every opportun- ity to spend at least a few days in this paradise of the north. This I consider the school boy’s ideal resort. When you arrive at Algonquin Park Station, the first thing you notice is the Rangers’ Home. In past years, outside of the tents, this formed the only accomo- dation for guests. This building was en- larged considerably last spring, but even then it proved too small although sur- prisingly good. This year-I understand a small hotel is being built to help out the city of tents The word tents generally suggests to the average vacationist’ something to be shunned, they have heard campers tell of the awful exper- ience they underwent the first time they tried to camp out, about the cold damp beds and the smoky fire and hundreds of other such experiences. However I feel quite certain that if you ever have the pleasure of sleeping in one of the tents at Headquarters of Algon- quin Park your views of camp life will be entirely changed. tents last fall I was surprised to find them so comfortable. I slept so soundly that night that I miss- ed my train for home next morn- ing and had to wait till the even- ing. Last year a large party of 157 Pittsburg coal merchants came up and about thirty more tents were immediately erected on the same plan as those composing tent city, all having one dining room tent adjoining the rangers’ house. ‘This party confined their trips through the park so that no matter what lake they visited they would have time to return betore night. They had except- ionally good luck in bass fishing on Cache Lake bringing in strings of them weighing from half a pound up to five pounds. There is a certain doctor from Ottawa who frequents the park every year. Heis what I calla perfect fishermen, lots of patience, bait and results. He always spends a preliminary hour or two catch- ing large shiners in a bay near headquar- ters. I remember some men came home from their first little fishing trip one day dis- gusted with the fishing, never had a bite. The decision was to move on next day to some lake where there was something doing, they did not come all the way from P—to havethis kind ofluck. A few minutes after my friend the doctor appeared at the landing carrying a large grocery box on his shoulder. ‘‘Been | fishing long?” inquired our disgusted friends. STARTING OUT FISHING. Algonquin National Park—Grand Trunk Railway System. 158 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. ‘“‘A couple ofhours,” the doctor replied and then turned out the contents of the box, twenty-four speckled lake trout weighing from three-quarters of a pound to five anda half pounds. The next train that came in brought a parcel for Mr. Bartlett, the superintendant of the park, which came from the next station below. From this parcel, issued to the amazement of the spectators, a trout tip- ping the balance at sixteen pounds two ounces! Our stranger friends decided to stay overanother day and try their luck again ! A great many people when looking over literature describing various resorts pass over the Park as out of the question, when they learn that no shooting is al- lowed within its bounds. Now this,instead of being an objectionable feature, is one of the greatest arguments in its favor as a summer resort,for if shooting were per- mitted it would be of no advantage dur- ing the closed season and it would tend to drive away the game from the Park. As it is, a great many of the animals of the park are in a semi tame stage. This provides an unlimited field for the photo- grapher; here you need not rig up scien- tific arrangements with flash light attach- ments to get wild life photos. A young lady teacher from Toronto secured some excellent pictures of beavers at work on their dam not more than six hundred yards from the station at high noon. Mr. Bartlett has some fine pictures of wild game taken in various places through the park. : The convenience of travelling in the park is one of its greatest assets, the rangers having built fine portages be- tween all the important lakes and Mr. Bartlett has been kind enough to have these plainly marked ; in many casesa small glass covered notice on a near by Those of our readers who enjoyed the fine articles on International Control of the Great Lakes Fisheries by Mr. A. Kelly Evans, and International Control of International Waters by Mr. C. H. Wilson which recently appeared in our pages, will be interested in knowing that the United States Senate have confirmed the treaty recently signed by Ambassa- dor Bryce and Secretary Root for reg- tree tells you the names of the lakes be- tween which the portage runs, the distance and the other lakes on that route, thus making it possible to take many week end trips from head quarters without any fear of being lost. If you wish to travel more extensively through the park and with greater ease, competent guides may be secured. Last year, for the first time, a camp of boys from the military training school of Bordentown, N. J. came up to the park and placed their permanent camp ona large island in Cache Lake not far from headquarters. They divided up so as to have one lot of boys in camp while two other parties travelled through the park ; thus each boy got two thirds of the time visiting the different fishing lakes and one third of the time to rest and prepare for the next trip. This plan seemed to work well. Even the camp time had its redeeming features as the boys had the privilege of taking their meals at the Tent City Dining Room and of going where they pleased. As this party was leaving the park I overheard Mr. Tracy say that they had camped ina great many of the well known camping places of America, | including the Adironadacks and that they found many drawbacks to them all, but Algonquin Park seemed to suit them in every respect and they intended to make it a permanent camp for years to come. Since then it has been rumored that the exceptionally healthy appearance of these lads when they returned, created quite an interest in the park among parents of the boys and friends of the school. I will close this attempt to express my enthusiasm over Algonquin National Park by hoping to have the pleasure of meeting many ‘Rod and Gun’ readers, in this camper’s and fisherman’s paradise this summer, : lating and controlling the waters between Canada and the United States. A com- mission will be appointed to carry out the provisions of the treaty and it is hoped the food fishes ot the continent, will now have due and careful attention so that the supply of both countries may be conserved to the great benefit of al the people. . 4 Pe A. The Fresh Water Trout of Canada.” BY DR. E. congratulate you on the effort you TY are putting forward for the better- ment of the fsh and game of this province, and wish to offer as my only excuse for addressing you a_ sincere de- Sire on my part to assist, if only in a small way, the work so ably begun. My subject, at first sight, appears a very large one, but on closér examination it will be seen to dwindle down to rather small proportions. There are in Canada two large and important families of fishes, each known under three. different appellations, de- pending on whether we use an English term, a scientific, or a popular one. They are the salmon and salmonoids; the salmo and the salvelinus; the trout and the charr. Each family is represented in the trout waters of Alberta, which comprise the southwest corner of the province, the Bow Riverand its tributaries, the Old Man andthe Belly. There is only one representative of the salmo family in this province, and that is the Salmo-Mykis or Cutthroat Trout, so well known to most of those present. This is a very beauti- ful and gamey fish, with many of the characteristics of the salmo family. At ‘maturity it reaches tothe weight of three or four pounds. It has well pronounced teeth, scales only fairly well developed to the naked eye, and readily seen under a magnifying glass; dark colored back and light colored underneath, except in spawning time, when the belly and sides ‘are a vivid red in color, a picture to be- hold, also under each jaw is a red stripe, from which it receives its common name of cutthroat. Its flesh is white in color, which at first appeared strange to my- self, as I was of the opinion all salmon had red flesh, but a government report states that the species on the Pacific coast, which are the most tender and palatable, are very pale in flesh and fre- quently quite white. SISLEY. Its natural home is gravel bottomed rapidly running streams; it lives almost wholly on larvae, insects such as wasps, ants, beetles and grasshoppers, and is very rarely known to swallow another fish. I have opened a number of them and have never found anything but in- sects. ~Mr. Millar, of Millarville, whose well kept report extends over a number of years, shows the same fact. Prob- ably the most important question with us is, ‘‘When does it spawn?”’ Ihave had no opportunity until the last year to study its habits. About the first of May, J. H. Tomlinson, an enthusiastic and devoted disciple of Isaac Walton and a true sportsman, took me down to the mouth of Fish Creek, where, in two hours, we took thirteen fish, weighing twenty-five pounds, the largest being three pounds six ounces, and the smallest one pound, all being taken with the fly, the red ibis being the favorite. I regret to say, and am ashamed to say, that every one of these fish were females and full of ripe ova. Mr. Millar’s reports conclusively show that they spawn during April and May. At the mouth of Fish Creek, ter- rific slaughter of these with ripe ova has been going on for years. There was every evidence of much fishing having been recently done in that locality. There were the remains of fresh beef lying around, and we also found about a pound of cured salmon eggs, which are said to bea very killing bait, and strictly prohibited in Great Britain for that purpose. This evidence clearly proves, at least to my mind, that these trout (the salmo mykis) spawn in the spring, and there- fore should be protected accordingly. Now, [ wish to make a statement which may at first appear a startling one. My subject is the fresh water trout of Can- ada. I have told you that our cutthroat trout is a real trout, a salmo. Now, I *A paper read before the Calgary (Headquarters) Branch of the Alberta Fish and Game Protective Association. 160 wish to tell you that it is the only real fresh water trout in Canada, with the exception of the landlock salmon of Quebec. British Columbia has a cutthroat of much commercial value, but it is appar- ently a sea trout. No better and more interesting exhibit could be made at our Dominion exposition than a glass tank with some live salmo mykis. Many vis- itors would see a real trout for the first time. All other so-called trout are sal- manoids or charr. My paper, then, should come to an end, but it would not be complete without a reference to the other most interesting family, the charr, especially as some gentlemen are anxious to start a hatchery here, and it will be wisdom for them to consider what they intend to hatch. In this province we have a degenerate representative of the charr family in the salvelinus malma, or what is commonly called the bull trout. The most typical representative is the salvelinus fontinalis of eastern Canada, commonly known as the brook trout. The family characteristics are the follow- ing: They live in fresh running water or clear spring lakes. They have large mouths with strong jaws, well fortified with teeth; have no scales, with two rows ,of pink spots along each side, brighter in some and more faded out in others. Usually the flesh is of a pink tint. Their living consists, to a very large extent, of live fish. The varieties in eastern Canada are the salvelinus fon- tinalis, or brook trout, the lake trout and the salvelinus namaycush or _ salmon trout. In British Columbia we also have the ‘‘Dolly Varden,” or bull trout, the rainbow and mounvain trout, all of which are not trout, strictly speaking; but are charr. ee. SERRE Of these fish, the salvelinus fontinalis of Eastern Canada is the only variety in the east that is of interest to. the sports- man. This fish is noted tor its beauty and its fighting qualities, the eagerness with which it takes the artificial fly, and the strenuous fight it puts up for life when once fairly caught on the hook. I have known it to jump six feet over the water to take the fly before the fisher- men had completed his cast. Its eating qualities are unsurpassed for delicacy of ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA flavor by any other fresh water fish, This beautiful gamey fish, however, has one very bad habit. It is a cannibal of the first water. It will swallow anything in the shape of a live fish, even one of its own kind. With my own eyes I have seen one twelve inches long trying to swallow one ten inches long, and have taken one with a fly with the tail of an- other fish sticking out of its mouth. Even the young fry, assoon as their mouths are open, endeavor to swallow one another, and too often succeed. This renders the artificial raising of these fish very difficult; and very often some- what disappointing. I wish to draw your attention particularly to this habit, for it applies to all the pink spotted variety or charrs. Later on, I shall tell you why I am so emphatic on this point. Look over Mr. Millar’s very interesting report, and what do you find for stomach contents? Of a salmo mykis almost in- variably insects; of a bull trout invaria- bly fish, except in one instance, and then it was a mouse. Let me read you one instance: Sept. 4, 1895, bull trout, length, 19% in.; weight 37 oz., where caught, Sheep creek; in poor condition, stomach contents, 1 bull trout, 6 inches long, 1 cutthroat, 8 inches long. Supposing there are 1,000 bull trout in a given stream in Alberta, and each one should swallow one fish per week of their own and other species, which is an absurdly small estimate, both as to num- ber and capacity of appetite, it would mean the ‘annual loss of 52,000 fish, which, experience shows, would be mostly cutthroat, or one per day would be 365,000. A bounty has been placed on the wolf; as great, or a greater, sin- ner goes free; yet well meaning sports- man wish to introduce more charr, in the shape of the brook trout of Ontario; in fact the C. P.R. have already placed some at Banff. I have told you that the bull trout isa lazy, degenerate fellow, but if these waters are suitable to the Ontario chap he will soon make himself felt, and in ten years you will have noth- ing left of your valuable salmo mykis. Please understand I do not wish to say anything disparaging of the fine fish that eastern Canadians are so proud of, and justly so, in his own waters; but, leave - _ toaccomplish any record. To ; hunters ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA him there, at least until we have learned more about our own noble trout. Now, nature has given us a valuable fish, a true trout, with no vicious habits, and it is our bounden duty to protect the fish, and instead of bringing in charr to gob- ble it up, we ought to be cultivating and shipping it alive to other provinces which are not as fortunate as we are. As for their non-predaceous habits, they are eminently fitted forhatchery purposes. The government report from Ottawa, which | have here with me, tells where these charr, salvelinus fontinalis were planted in a salmon stream in Prince Ed- ward Island, and in course of time the salmon were cleaned out, and now they would like to be rid of this vicious little monster. Now, I would like to ask what have we been doing to protect the beautiful and palatable trout indigenous to the waters of this province? Answer: “Nothing?” Nay, on the other hand, we have wittingly and unwittingly done everything in our power to exterminate them, we have done most of our fishing when we should have had a close season. It is an open secret that many fish are dynamited when in the act of spawning for the purposes of sale. Dams, appar- ently, are not provided with proper run- ways or slides, and our pure streams are being polluted in the most outrageous manner. Our towns and cities drain 161 their sewage into them, and private par- ties dump their manure and refuse at the riverside so that it may be washed down by the first freshet that swells the stream. Some intelligent people inform me that sewage does no harm with a stream like the Bow. Iam afraid it will as our city increases in size, but in this connection would like to draw your attention to the mouth of the Elbow. The greater part of the year this is small and shallow, and for the first half mile from its mouth, at the present time, the water is very much polluted with sewage, so that no respect- able fish like the trout, with its aristo- cratic nose, would ever think of ascend- ing or descending the stream, as it ordi- narily does in the process of spawning. This condition should not be allowed. One more point, and 1am through. No irrigation ditches should be allowed to take water without first screening it. Thousands of trout descend these ditches never to return, and, of course, perish. I would like you toconsult Mr. Millar as to his experience on this question. No statement has been made by me whith cannot be supported by the best icthyologists in Canada and the United States, but ina short paper like this there is no room for quoting authorities, nor for going into the details that a sci- entific paper, which this does not pretend to be, would require. . A Good Western Bag. VawUR illustration shows the O result of one hour’s shoot- = ing to the south of Bran- don one fine autumn morning. There were three guns in the party and no efforts were imade obtain twenty-one geese, six grouse and a jack rabbit inside one hour was satisfactory to the and probably most sportsmen would enjoy a similar |f experience. The names of the. hunters as seated showing from left to right are H. J. Smale, C. W. Harrison and R. Dowling. A GOOD WESTERN BAG. Apparently Manitoba has a good deal to offer to _ sportsmen and though we are often overwhelmed with western wheat it is as well to be reminded now and then what the West can do in the way of sport. The Use and Care of a Rifle. BY HEBER LOGAN. SWIFLE shooting is becoming more fae every year. In shooting eat pedple find not only a pastime, but a good indicator of the qualities of a man’s judgment and nerves. Many rang- es have been built for the purpose of al- lowing people to become well acquainted with the art on which the safety ofa country often depends. A certain amount may be learned from books on this sub- ject, but the main thing is experience. Any person who wishes to start rifle shooting should first learn how to hold a rifle steadily and in the proper position. Practice may be a great benefit in learn- ing the proper position, but to have good nerves is the principal part of holding a rifle steadily. The eyes also must be in good condition, and if such is not the case an oculist should be consulted. Glasses will not be a hindrance in shoot- ing. Ifa V sight is being used an or- thoptic will be a great help, for it not only magnifies the object at which the shooter is firing, but it also concentrates the sight. In selecting a rifle get one which is new or very little worn. A great deal will depend on the selection made. If you intend to shoot at long ranges the steel coated bullets will be used. These are very hard on the grooves of a rifle, and will wear them out in a very short time. Some may wear out the barrel of a rifle so much in one year, that it will not be true enough to shoot with the next season. It will be useless to geta cheap rifle. A rifle costing under twenty dollars, to be used for long distances, will be of no use. To get a very expen- sive rifle will not be waste, as may be supposed. It is quite possible, with the majority of rifles, te get a new barrel put in after the old one has been worn out. Different kinds of rifles have different kinds of sights, so the proper way to use these sights will be learned by directions given with them. Inthe last few years the peep sight has become more popular with riflemen. These new sights have the veneer and wind-guage attached. All these things attended to, the next step will be to get the ammunition. The kind to get will depend on the calibre of the rifle. The best should always be procured so that the best results will be obtained. Some of the less expensive ammunition may injure the rifle. For the same reason the best marksman who have rifles which fire cordite and other ammunition equally as strong, never buy cartridges loaded with black powder to fire in their rifles. The first thing to attend to with the sights is to see that they are properly blackened so that no glare whatever will be on them. Black paint is often used for this purpose. The best way to blacken the sights is to hold them over a burning candle. Many put white — paint on the lower part of the fore sight, which faces the shooter, leaving only a small portion black. This is a matter of preference, the object being to take an equal amount of sight in each shot. rear sight must be elevated to the proper distance. The elevation depends on the number of yards from which you are shooting to the target, and also the way the rifle shoots. The number of degrees of wind must be found out, and © the wind-gauge fixed accordingly. The man who’ wishes to make good scores must learn to shoot in a proper position. Toa person who knows little about shooting this would seem a very small matter. It formsa very important part of the art however. The greater num- ber of good shooters know how to place themselves ina proper position. It is rather hard to give a correct idea of this by writing. The proper way to learn is to get a shooter, who knows, to give you the proper directions while shooting. The three general ways of shooting are lying, kneeling and standing. The best results will come by the first position. I will assume that you hold the rifle to the right shoulder. Do not lie ina straight line with the target, but allow the body and the legs to slant to The © ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. the left, while the rifle is ina straight line with the target. At the same time do not let the legs be spread out but keep them well together with the toes resting on the ground. ‘ In kneeling, the body is also at an angle so that the aiming of the rifle will not draw the shooter up in a hunched position. One knee rests on the ground, while the other serves asa rest for the left elbow,the right arm not being allow- ed to touch any part of the body. While shooting in the standing position neither of the arms must touch the body or any other sort of rest. Asin both the other positions the body is at an angle, for the same reason as before given. After the shooter has taken his rifle and placed himself in the proper position, the rifle may be loaded by opening the breach and putting in the cartridge. Avoid all danger, however, by not load- ing till in the proper position to shoot. After loading, grip the small of the butt by the right hand, and place the left hand a little apiece from the trigger-guard to- ward the muzzle. Allow the finger next the thumb to touch the trigger. Take a careful aim at the object, or ‘‘bull’s-eye,” by catching thetip of the fore sight through the rear sight, and at the same time allowing it to be on the bottom of the object, or as it is called ‘‘six o’clock.” Be sure that before firing the rifle is steady and is not rolled towards one side, for if that happens the bullet will goin the direction in which the rifle is rolled. Hold the rifle tightly against the shoulder and pull the trigger gradually, not with a sudden jerk. Careful attention must be given to the directions already given ; but one which is just as important, if success in shooting is expected, is the care of the rifle. Many books have been written on this subject which will interest shooters, but the main points may be given here. After the shooter has finished firing he will find that the barrel of the rifle has heated considerably. Do not attempt to _cool it by the application of water, but open the breech, and the barrel will soon ‘cool. If the barrel of the rifle has corners it will be impossible to shoot for a long ~ a 163 time with it accurately, for the barrel will heat and expand. But the expansion will not be the same inall parts of the barrel, as the same amount of steel is not putin all parts of a cornered barrel. Even the expanding ofa round barrel will put the bullet out of its course be- cause it will not fitas closely into an ex- panded barrel. The rifle must be cleaned of all the dirt which has collected in the barrel. The things required for this are, a rod for cleaning, a steel brush, a ‘‘pull- through,” gun oil and gun grease. The whole will not amouut to more than two dollars. . ifthe breach can be detached from the rest of the rifle, lay it aside. Take the rod and fix the steel brush on it. Dip the brush in the oil and rub up and down the inside of the barrel. Next, re- move the brush from the rod and in its place put a piece of cloth also dipped in the oil. Rub it up and down for a short time. Ifthe barrel is still dirty, apply the brush again, and then the cloth. After the inside is thoroughly cleaned, put a cloth, slightly coated with the gun- grease on the ‘‘pull through” and apply to the inside of the barrel. (A ‘‘pull- through” is a piece of strong cord with a weight on one end, and a hole in the other, through which to place the cloth.) Some kinds of gun oil may not have the qualities to brighten the barrel as well. as might be wished. In that case a damp cloth may act as a better cleaner than the oil. First use the brush without being dipped in anything, and then use the damp cloth by means of the rod. In each case in which a cloth is used, it must be torn off, and wrapped around the rod so that it will not be too big for the barrel, but will just fit in tightly. After a damp cloth has been used, every precaution should be used to dry the in- side of the barrel before applying the grease. Todrythe barrel, all that is necessary to be done is to put a dry cloth on therod and rub it up and down the inside. Try as far as possible to keep all rust from the inside of a rifle. In a very short time the rifle will be rendered useless if rust or dirt is allowed to remain in the 164 barrel. Rust once formed is hard to get out. Some shooters try the following way to take away any rust which may happen to form in the barrel. Hang the rifle up by the butt. Pour boiling water mixed with a small quantity of soda, through the inside of the barrel. Dry the rifle out thoroughly after doing this, that no new rust may form. The other metal in the rifle should be kept fromrust. The grease will keep rust away if applied to all parts. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA If it should happen that a piece of cloth gets stuck in the barrel, it will have to be bored out by means of an instrument for that purpose, placed on the end of the rod. When the shooting is over, and the rifle is being put away, place a covering over the muzzle, and always keep the © breech closed when the rifle is not in use. If it is possivle to get a case for the whole rifle it is better to use it as an extra pre- caution. Our Vaanchine Dek BY F you will allow me the space of a few lines in your valuable magazine, to express my opinion on the above sub- ject, | will be greatly obliged. In your February number I read with interest an article by Mr. A. C. Pratt, M. P. P., on, “‘Our Vanishing Deer.” I cannot however agree with the writer as to hounding deer being one of the princi- palcauses of our rapidly disappearing deer. I have hunted with hounds for about eight years and can say we never got our full complement of deer, although they were fairly plentiful and we had good hounds. We were satisfied with one deer to each man, and sometimes less. On the other hand, I believe that more deer can be,and are killed by stillhunting. Last fall [ was unable to take in our annual hunt with hounds, but later in the season I went still hunting and could have shot six deer in three days, but did not fire at them. Why? Because I| could not get sight of a vital part, such as head, neck or shoulder, but could easily have shot themin the hind quarters. What would the result have been—the poor creatures would probably have es- caped only to die a slow and lingering death. How many still hunters would have lost such opportunities? My friends also had similar chances. Now, if we were ‘‘butchers,” as Mr. A. C. Pratt called some of us, we would have taken a chance shot at the unfortu- nate animals. However, we got our tull complement of deer, two to each man. I got two in one shot. Of course this was merely a chance shot, but you could not do that on the lake shooting. One W. H. LOW. of these deer was nearly dead when I reached it. The other had its spine broken, and I was obliged to dispatch it with another shot from my 38-55 Win- chester Rifle. I could have finished it with my hunting knife as ] suppose some still hunters do, but it seemed too much like work fit for a butcher. If you take the lake shooting with hounds—consider which is the most cruel, still hunting or lake shooting with hounds. Inthe lake they afford a hard mark, as only part of the head is visible which is a small object and moving rap- idly. The deer is not always exhausted as Mr. Pratt claims, as they are very often watered in twenty ees by a good dog. We give them a chance for life. They either get off scott free or are kilied in- stantly by being shot through the head. As for a still hunter he takes a chance of wounding them and perhaps leaves them to die in torture. ; Mr. Pratt also draws our attention to a statement that a great many deer die from plunging into cold water while heated. If this were the case, there would not be any left for Mr. Pratt to argue about at the present day. A few might die in this way if they had heart disease. As they have been hunted by wolves centuries ago and have plunged into half frozen lakes to escape from nu- — merous pursuers, they are naturally ac- customed to the cold water and the howl of the wolf, therefore the bay of a hound — makes little difference to them. Last year I noticed where deer had de- liberately broken through a frozen stream — ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 165 and waded init, when they might have avoided it, and there were no signs of any creature on their trail. This is am- ple proof to show that they are accus- tomed and are quite hardy to cold water. Mr. Pratt should also bear in mind that deer are not domesticated animals and ‘that nature has provided them against the cold and wet. A great many still hunters leave more cripples in the bush than they take out, some that they cannot overtake and others that they are not aware are wounded, forthe fact is that if still hunters do not see any sign of blood they give them up as being missed. If by any chance one is wounded when hunting with dogs we can easily put him to water again by putting a dog on the fresh blood trail. By this means the poor creature will not be lett to make easy victims and food for the wolves. Wounded deer draw the wolves to that > locality and make havoc among other deer during the winter months in the deep snow. Mr. Pratt is kind enough to tell us that a deer is a ruminant, and must have time to digest its food. Are we going to wait until we are informed that the deer has finished digesting his last meal and that he is in good running condition? | have shot deer at all hours of the day, and in every case they have had a full stomach. It seems too absurd for Mr. Pratt to put our beautiful intelligent deer on the same level with a stupid sheep. If there are so many dry does to be found as he states, it is the wolves which are to blame for hunting deer during the rutting Season, not the hounds that only have ten days open season in a year. I have always understood that in Ontario the open season for hounding deer was lim- ited to fifteen days viz: lst Nov. to 15th Nov. and I believe itis so, as for the Province of Quebec it is but ten days, viz: 20th Oct. to lst Nov. If I was desirous of getting my com- plement of two deer I certainly would go still hunting, but I don’t go for the quantity but for the sport, and I think that most other hunters that use hounds do the same. I think that one deer for each man is all that he should be entitled to. Sucha limitation would help to increase the game. If hunters are not satisfied with one (1) deer a season, well in that case, the Law at all events should not allow any person to shoot more than one (1) doe a season. I also think the sale of deer should absolutely be prohibited. BY JAMES G. SHAW. Those who follow deer hunting should be much indebted to Rod and Gun for the publicity given to the controversy over Hounding vs. Still Hunting. Per- sonally I have enjoyed the various letters that have appeared in the magazine on this subject, and have I hope, profitted somewhat by the different ideas ad- - vanced, although I regret to see so much personal feeling introduced. | Some of those, who have written, have apparently overlooked the fact that there are really many first class sportsmen on both sides of the argument, and that in spite of the different opinions on the subject, we are all agreed as to the de- sirability of better protecting and in- _ creasing game, in general, and deer in j particular, and only differ as to our ideas __ of how this should be done. When then — > . 3% Ms aaa our object is a common one, each sports- man should respect the opinions of his fellows and endeavor to agree upon a common ground, for we can hardly ex- pect any Government to take action in the matter when there is such diversity of opinion as to what action should be taken. That there is immediate need of some action being taken, will I think, be ad- mitted by all, for it is hardly possible for any one who follows hunting at all intel- ligently, to deny that all game is slowly but surely decreasing. Whether the de- crease in the number of deer is due in any degree to the use of hounds, ,I can- not personally say, but I am free to admit, that while I have always hunted with dogs, and am a lover of a good dog and thoroughly enjoy his companionship in 166 the woods, the arguments advanced by those who are opposed to the use of hounds, have convinced me that hound- ing should be stopped for a few years at least, if only as an experiment. It is hardly possible however, that deer hunters will ever agree on this point, and therefore the suggestion of Mr. Dainard in your April number, namely that the deer hunting territory be di- vided, and hounding allowed in one part and prohibited in the other, is well worthy the consideration of all sports- meu. While it could hardly be expect- ed that this plan would work out very satisfactorily the first year, in view of the fact that so many parties have fixed hunting grounds, I think in the course of two or three years it would be found that the large majority of still hunters would drift into the territory set apart for that form of hunting, and in addition to what might be learned from the exper- iment, this would do away with the many objections there are to still hunters and those using dogs hunting in the same territory. It would also give deer hunters of all classes, acommon ground upon which they could meet and unite in asking for some better protection of game. In this connection I think the following points might well be urged upon the Govern- ment. 1. That the bounty on wolves be in- creased. 2. That the use of firearms of any sort in territory frequented by game be prohibited during the close season. 3. That the sale of game of any kind be prohibited for say a period of five years. 4.. That a larger revenue be raised for the better enforcement of the game laws by a small tax upon all guns. In connection with this latter sugges- tion, one hesitates to recommend any addition to the already too high taxes, but so far as deer hunters are concerned it would make little difference to them whether they paid a couple of dollars a year on their guns or paid it for alicense, and there is really no good reason why ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA they should be singled out as the, only | class of sportsmen who should contribute towards the revenue as at present. All men who hunt, whether deer, duck, partridge, or quail, should in fairness, contribute to the protection of game and the great majority would I believe be glad todo so. The most simple form of licensing would be to license the gun no matter for what hunting use it is put, ” and it appears to me that this form of a license or tax would raise considerable revenue, and at the same time, puta damper on the indiscriminate use of guns by boys and others in the slaughter ot small birds, squirrels, etc. Mr. A. White writes from Aylmer, Ont: I have been very much interested in reading ‘‘Rod and Gun,” more particu- ularly the discussion regarding the use of dogs in hunting deer. 1 am probably one of the oldest hunters in the Domin- ion and am familiar with both styles of hunting. I will give my views on the question. aris In the first place 1 am a great lover of hounds and have never been without one or more for the last fifty-five years. I know of districts in the older parts of Ontario where the deer were once plentiful and where they would still do well if the hounds had not driven the last one to their finish, In fact the fewer the tracks the easier for the hounds to bring them to their destruction. My principle objection to the use of dogs is this; We know the natural en- emy of the deer is the wolf. Countless ages have taught them that the water is the safest place when pursued by wolves; consequently when they hear the hounds - (domestic wolves) they take to the water and their death. Now what do we find? Just this: — What Nature had taught them was their — best means of self preservation, has been turned to their certain destruction, which means“extinction in a short time. ~ Fishing Rights | Wiecase of great importance to the A public of the Province, and inci- ~— dentally all over the Dominion will shortly come before the law courts of Nova Scotia. The question to be de- cided, and its possible effects, are well described by Mr. Benjamin Hills, Mill Village, Queen’s County, N.S., in the following letter which we quote in full:— “The people along the Medway River, N. S., are greatly excited over a ques- tion that is of no mere local importance, a question that concerns the whole Province. Halifax, against L. Mack, of Mill Village will be decided by the courts, and it is not for me to discuss its merits, but I may be permitted to point out its bearings. It concerns fishing rights throughout Nova Scotia. The Medway River is a natural high- way. Rising in the South Mountains, about a dozen miles from Bridgetown, in the Annapolis Valley, it traverses the Southwestern Peninsula to the Atlantic at Port Medway, flowing through a country rich in mineral, lumbering, and agricultural resources. Every year thousands of logs for lumber and pulp are driven down the River for many miles. It is constantly trayersed by skiffs and punts and its free use is essen- tial to the industry of the country. For some years past, certain parties have been quietly acquiring narrow strips of land, generally about thirty feet wide, along the River banks with a view to obtaining control of the fishing. From the earliest settlement of the country the public have enjoyed undisturbed the privilege of fishing anywhere on the River. Now that about all the available land bordering on the River has been se- cured, an effort is being made to keep The case of M. Dwyer, of in Nova Scotia. therein. Should the Court grant the re- quest of Mr. Dwyer, it would give him power to stop all stream driving. The logs cannot be driven without disturbing the fish, and most stream driving is done during the fishing season. It would also give him power to pre- vent boats from passing up or down the river. For that, too, of necessity dis- turbs the fish, especially in Mr. Dwyer’s particular part of the stream. Sucha judgment would also confirm the claim of every owner of land on every river of Nova Scotia. American millionaires or Nova Scotia plutocrats would soon se- cure every-available stream in the Pro- vince. Every stream worth fishing would soon be closed to all but a favored few. It would mean that our railway and steamship companies would have to cease to advertise Nova Scotia as the land of free fishing and hunting ; that the amateur angler must throw away his rod, and that the dealer in fishing tackle might as well shut up shop. It would mean that Nova Scotia would in this Sense become the land of the monopolist, and not the home of the free. The Gov- ernment now maintains an expensive department for the protection of inland fisheries. The people willingly pay the cost for the public good, but they certainly will not allow themselves to be taxed to keep up the fisheries for a few monopolists. Should the present attempt to close the rivers succeed, naturally the next step will be to stop the public from hunting. If one man owns all the fish in his part of the river, surely another one owns all the game on his part of the land. Seeing the greatness of the issue in- volved, the people of Queen’s County are subscribing liberally to a defence fund in order that the Courts may be able to fully investigate and finally settle the whole question. It is to be hoped that all over the Province those who are in favorof maintaining the rights of the public against monoply will subscribe tothe fund. If the monopolists are right, let it be so declared, and let them undisturbed enjoy their privileges. If they are wrong, let the public know and freely exercise their own privileges.” the public off and to reserve miles of the River for the exclusive use ofa few individuals. In the case of Dwyer versus Mack, Mr. _ Mack is accused of taking and destroying _ fish and disturbing the fish. The plaintiff also asks the Court to restrain Mack and all others from taking or disturbing fish, and also to confirm his ownership of the bed of the river and of the fish 4 Fish and Game Protection in British Columbia. |FTY business and professional men of Cranbrook, B. C., organized the Cranbrook Fishand Game Protec- tive Association at a recent meeting, with these executive officers : Archie Leitch, president ; V. Hyde Baker'and J. F. M. Pinkham, vice presidents; Dr. F. W. Green, G. A. Wilson, F. A. Dunne, James Bates, F. E. Brian, Harry W. Drew, T. T. McVittie, Nels Hanson and William French,the executive committee. and C. M. Edwards secretary and treas- urer. The object is to cooperate witha similar organization established in Fernie five yearsago to protect the game and fish of East Kootenay, which are being rapidly exterminated, owing to the apathy and indifference of the Provincial and Dominion Governments, Harry Herchmer, LL. B., president of the Fernie association, declared in his address at the organization meeting that the first duty of the combined organiza- tions was to bring pressure to bear on the Provincial representatives and on the Government to compel its recognition of the importance of preserving the game, big and little, and the fish of East Koot- enay from the destruction with which it is threatened. They have the Indians from Alberta and the native Kootenay tribe to contend with, in what often prov- eda wholesale slaughter of big game ; while around Fernie it has grown posi- tively dangerous to go abroad, owing to the promiscous shooting by every Italian, Slav and Jap who.can lay hands on a firearm. These men destroyed every- thing, even the squirrels, chipmunks and insectivorous song birds. Mr Herchmer pointed out that this indiscriminate slaughter could be con- trolled by imposing a license to cost two dollars and a half a year and this would bring a revenue of eight thousand dollars a year, to be applied for more thorough protection. Bears, he said, should be put on the protected lists, and neither trapped nor shot out of season. The district was the habitat of every variety of big game on the North American continent, except the cariboo, which was confined to the Selkirk range, west of the Rockies. Thousands of dollars a year are spent in the district by sportsmen and naturalists in hunting trips. If the government does not at once interfere there will be soon nothing left for the Indians, the prospec- tors, theinhabitants or those coming from a distance for the sake of the hunt- ing and the scenery. Secretary Edwards suggested that the British Columbia Government be at once memorialized by the association to declare the electoral districts of Cranbrook and Columbia protected areas for five years under the Game Protection Act. This stretch of country, together with the Fernie district, would include the region bounded on the east by the boundary be- tween Alberta and British Columbia, on the north by the Vermillion, on the west by the Kootenay and on the south by the. Elk rivers. Within its borders are found the big horn, mountain goat, grizzly, black and brown bear, blacktailed and whitetailed deer, elk, moose, beaver and every variety of winged game, to say nothing of the rainbow trout, the pluck- iest fish that swims, which is plentifulin — every strong creek. Five years more — without rigid protection will see the last — of big game. . A memorial embodying Mr. Edwards’ — suggestions has been torwarded to the- . government., | Noah Spool, trapper and hunter, ane near Moyie, B. C., while standing at the door of his cabin a short time ago, was struck by a 30.30 soft-nose bullet, which — glanced off the bone of the upper arm, passed through his right lung and lodged © in the muscles of his back. He lay for two days in his cabin, and then, unassisted made his way to the Cranbrook hospital, where the bullet was extracted. It had expanded, part of the jacket being — found sticking in the inside of the shirt. Though it is doubtful if ever a man re- covered after having an expanded bullet — driven through his lungs, the doctors quite expect that Spool will pull through — and soon beon his feet again. Soon | after Spool left the shack it was entered — and robbed of a quantity of marten and lynx skins by Frank West, a youth, who ve BBLS N hs nN og ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. sold the lot in Cranbrook for fifty dol- lars. The boy admits thaton the.day Spool was shot he fired at and missed a grouse with his Winchester, and does not 169 deny that it might have been his bullet that hit the veteran trapper. Spool cannot connect the lad with the shoot- ing. A Nova Scotia Moose Hunt. BY J. E. WARNER. [me OOKING down the muzzle of a | Winchester all day when the guide —— ahead of you is carrying his gun at the ‘‘slope,” and you are conscious that the men behind you has his at the “‘trail,”’ is rather nervous work, though it is one of the things to which one has to become accustomed if he spendsa_ week or two in the woods of Nova Scotia look- ing for moose. Three of us decided to go moose hunt- ing last fall and we engaged Harry Lightizer as guide. It was my first ex- perience in big game hunting and if! had known what strenuous labours were in- volved I doubt if I should have been so ready to accompany the boys as I was when I accepted their invitation. A man of sixty,not accustomed to manual labor, finds the strain pretty severe, but once I got into it all regrets vanished and look- ing back upon what! didI find that I gained much : and I am so heartily glad of the experiences and the health recruit- ed that I intend to follow the same course again next hunting season should circum- stances prove at all favorable to the en- terprise. It was the first day of last October when we pitched our tent onan open plain, doing the work in a downpour of rain. There were afew old wind falls clese by anda little bit of axe work speedily gave us a plentiful supply of fire wood. Our tent stove was soon going and*comfort prevailed. Dinner in the Open was enjoved though we had to get it over early for Harry’s ‘‘blood was up.” He had descried the game from afar and was anxious to have us out on the trail. Accordingly we humored: him and set off about noon. The others had been over the ground two years previously and had takena _ moose, but I was entirely ‘new to the work. Over barrens, boulder bestrewn plains, woods undergrowth and swamps we went in Indian file, Lightizer leading the way. Every hour or two the guide, if he was on ‘‘a hot scent,” would calla halt, whisper a word of caution or explain some sign, and then on again apparently gliding over the ground so smoothly did he progress. At length he told us that a moose had gone out of a certain clump of bushes and crossed the plain to another clump half a mile away andthat quite recently. Around we went, carefully keeping to windward until we came toa _ point in- dicated by Harry’s finger when I sudden- ly saw the man who happened to be next to him clutch his rifle and throw off his safety. I looked all round but could see nothing. Glancing back at my compan- ion I saw that he was taking aim and speedily his Lee-Metford spoke. Then I saw the moose which had been hard hit going over the rugged plains at an awful clip. It appeared to me that it was my only chance and [ let fly though Iam never likely to be able to tell whether I did any damage or rot. Under the direction of the guide we followed the trail for a mile. Instinct, experience or woodcraft led him on and in the right direction though I was plainly at sea and at length we came to where she had fallen. She sprang up and would have been off again but we had been pre- pared by Lightizer for what was likely to happen, and as she arose the four guns spoke like one and under the circum- stances it was pretty difficult to tell whose bullets made the holes. Our success made us jubilant and we all felt that we had- not done badly for a four hours’ hunt. The moose proved a good fat one and next day we carried the meat to camp and did more hunting. During the 170 week we continued our hunting tramps but were not successful in capturing any more game. The whole period we spent in camp was atimeofundiluted enjoyment. Lighti- zer’s work proved a series of revelations to us and added very greatly to the in- terest of our camp life. We had altogeth er the best of fun, the height of enjoy- ment, good appetite and good food and ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. laid up a store of health, which did us good for months. We have now the most pleasant memories of that camp jife and one and all determlned to repeat. our trip this year if the chances are favor- able. We were delighted with our guide - who proved himself careful and compet- ent in every way and the prince of good fellows in camp as well as on the trail. 4 Books of Interest to Sportsmen ‘*The Pistol and Revolver” by A.L.A. Himmelwright (the MacMillan Company, Toronto) is a complete and most interest- ing record of the history of small arms, ammunition, etc. The pistol was the earlier of the two weapons and was very different in its beginning from the efficient and beautiful little weapon it is today. The revolver has proved its usefulness times without number and from its first introduction was a favorite, | Nowadays the used of the pistol is limited almost exclusively to target and exhibition shoot- ing. While itis much more difficult to shoot well with either pistol or revolver than with a rifle yet ‘“‘rapid progress in- variably rewards the efforts of those who persevere and when once thoroughly in- terested in this style of shooting, there comes a fascination for it that frequently endures throughout a lifetime.” The re- volver is popular for hard service and its record is one of splendid work Magazine pistols are the latest type of hand firearm and the Colt, Luger, Mauser, Mannlicher and Mors equal the best military revol- vers in accuracy. While the magazine pistol may supersede the revolver for gen- . eral use, the author believes that this will not occur for some years yet. The por- tions on ammunition are full and only the necessary technical language is used. A description of target shooting follows and this, with the hints to beginners, is well written displaying a full knowledge ot the subject and an ability to teach oth- ers which all would-be public instructors. should possess. In the appendix full par- ticulars are given of the anrual champion- ship matches of the United States Revol- ver Association. The book is indexed and is altogether one which by reason_ of its careful compilation and general in- terest must commend itself to all sports- men. A seizure of 800 pounds of fish was made by Game Warden Loveday at the Central depot Ottawa. The fish was in transport from Nipissing to Montreal and on examination was found to be im- properly labeled and otherwise to contra- vene the regulations. A civil servant who went on a fishing excursion up the Ottawa on Victoria day had the unpleasant experience of having his tackle and paraphernalia seized by the local game warden. The seizure, it is claimed, was irregular, as the tackle was not being used, and steps are being taken to callin question the legality of the warden’s action. THE ITHACA GUN BUILDERS PREPARING FOR A FOX HUNT. Gun Builders Good Gun Users. York, who have three hundred skilled workmen in their employ, are strong believers in the principle that men who use guns know better how to build them. They therefore encourage all their employees to become gun owners and to use them regularly. In addition to the aid given them in trap shooting, the Company maintain a kennel of bird dogs and a pack of hounds. These dogs may be used not only by the officials but also by any workman who may wish to have a few days’ hunting. Fox hunting gives good sport in the Th Ithaca Gun Co. of Ithaca, New neighborhood of Ithaca and the men are great on fox hunting not only on account of the excellence of the sport in hunting Reynard but also because the more foxes they kill the better the bird shooting in the locality. Last year no less than fourteen foxes were killed and brought in ahead of the Company’s pack of fox- hounds and several more were reported to have been killed by outside parties. ee In the illustration given the gentleman holding the hunter is Mr. L. P. Smith, the vice-president of the Company, who is himself an enthusiastic sportsman, and delights in seeing the employees using the guns made by the firm. Two of the dogs are half beagle and used for rabbit hunting only; the rest are fox hounds, the best the Company have been able to secure for red fox hunting in a rugged country where endurance and gameness counts for everything, particularly in winter. The white dog near the centre of the picture is ‘‘Turk,”’ a big, coarse, rugged hound, eight years old and until last win- ter the leader of the pack. Turk is de- scribed by Mr. Smith.as ‘‘an all day dog and an every day dog.” Frequently he has been taken into a strange section of the country, put out after a fox in the morning, and never failed to return to camp soon after sun down, ready for an- other chase next day. The homing in- stinct is particularly strong in this dog. - turned seven of the birds to Mr. 172 The other white dog in the front of the picture is ‘‘Noble,” a son of Turk. Last winter was Noble’s second winter with the pack and he was usually in the lead, appearing to fill efficiently the place of his good old daady. Mr. Smith adds that to his regret dogs appear to be unable to catch foxes in New York State except on rare Occa- sions. Hehas seen dogs catch foxes in the Southern States but imported South- ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA ern dogs are not able to catch New York State foxes any more than native hounds. The experience at Ithaca is that South- ern hounds cannot run in snow and crust without getting sore and lame, and zero weather appears to pinch them up so much that they are always looking for a warm nest instead of returning home. The Company is satisfied from experience that its policy isa good one and meansto continue it. The Passenger Pigeon in Confinement. aN UR readers have recently shown much interest in» the passenger === pigeon. Interesting reminiscenses of by gone times have given place to the query whether this beautiful bird has be- come extinct or is likely to again re-visit the country—not in the millions of old times but still in numbers which would gladden the hearts of all naturalists. So far, the evidence appears to be against the reappearance. Reports of pigeons have not stood the test of in- quiry and no further appearances have followed these reports. Noting the in- terest in this subject amongst our read- ers and contributors, Mr. Ruthven Deane has kindly torwarded a reprint of an ar- ticle contributed by him to ‘‘The Auk,” on‘‘The Passenger Pigeonin Confinement,”’ Mr. David M. Whittaker raised a flock cf fifteen of these pigeons from a pair of young birds which he received from an Indian who trapped them in Shawano county, Wis. Professor Whitman, of the University of Chicago purchased the whole flock but in the following year re- Whit- taker. Those retained by Professor Whitman increased and decreased until the winter of 1907 when the last bird died. Of the seven birds returned to Mr. _ Whittaker in 1890 four males are alive, the last female dying in 1906, probably of tuberculosis. A flock of passenger pigeons have been maintained in the Cincinnati Zool- ogical gardens for some years. The original flock, which consisted of twenty- six birds, half males and half females, came from Michigan in 1875. They bred from time to time and twenty-three young e@nes were reared. The increase did not keep pace with the decrease and the _ State, is now extinct. flock has been reduced to three—one male from the orginal flock, now about twenty-three years old, one male raised in the gardens about eighteen years old, and one female obtained from Professor Whitman in 1902, about twelve years old. No particular disease, as far as known, has caused the decrease but the birds died in most cases from old age. The remnants of the Milwaukee and Cincinnati flocks now number only seven and the chances of further reproduction are but small. Mr. Deane concludes hisinteresting re- view with the following words the latter of which may well be taken to heart by our authorities throughout Canada: ‘‘As a sufficient time has now passed since there has been an undisputed record of a flock, or even a single bird, having been seen, those who have given this subject much attention, are forcéd to be- lieve that this noble bird, in its wild Every little while reports appear in the press or sporting papers, that our Wild Pigeon has again been seen, but we have no specimen or facts to verify the record. How many times have I run down some of these re- ports, only to find them to be cases of either mistaken identity—Turtle Doves— It is hard to believe that — or humbugs. this bird, which within a comparatively short time traversed the country in count- less numbers, has been wiped off the face of the earth through the agency of man, yet when we read the mass of evidence which Mr. W. B. Mershon has brought together in ‘‘The Passenger Pigeon,” of the wholesale slaughter which has been going on for so many years, we stop and wonder.” SS ee AUTOMOBILES 482 AUTOMOSBILING The Russell Car. During Earl Grey’s visit to Toronto last month a Russel landaulet was placed at his disposal and by its means his Lord- ship saw a great deal of the city and its parks and gardens. Even when visiting the races in state the landaulet was not far away and as soon as ceremony could be dispensed with was again pressed into service. In his trips to various places ot interest in the suburbs and outside the city his Excellency was accompanied by his suite who followed in a big Russell touring car carrying seven passengers. Earl Grey is as enthusiastic over automo- biles as over a piece of international dip- lomacy. Hetakes the keenest interest in the great developement of the domestic product, and from time to time gives vent to his opinion in a series of glowing compliments relative to Canada and Canadian manufactures. The Canada Cycle and Motor Co. of West Toronto, builders ot the Russell car, have taken a great deal of pleasure out of the satis- faction displayed by Lord Grey on the running qualities of their automobile. The quiet, but powerful, motor, the complete flexibility and consequent ab- sence of vibration,andthe ample clearance thoroughly prove its dependability. Many visitors to Toronto make a point of view- ing the Canada Cycle Company’s five and a half acre plant before leaving the city. The six hundred workmen who unite in the making of Russel motor cars are worth going a long way to see. Increasing Demand for Autos. The farmers who would do away with autos should learn of the record made by the Ford Motor Company—one hundred carsaday. To be exact one hundred and one cars were built, tested and ship- ped in one day—a car every six minutes, ten cars per hour! The same day the sales reached one hundred and seventeen. There has been nothing like it in the ro- mance of industry and the men who talk about restrictive legislation have no knowledge of what a vast industry is being developed at almost lightning speed. This developement likewise means that motor users are a constantly increas- ing army whose votes are likely ere long to outbalance any nonprogressive sec- tion of the community. It is a pity our provincial legislators cannot spend a day at one of these factories and learn for themselves what is being done. They would not be likely to father any un- necessary restrictive measures after such a visit. Royalty andthe Auto. Practically every crowned head in the world travel today in automobiles. The King of Great Britain has been an ardent motorist for eight years and so far has only met with one accident. Royalties have been mixed up in many accidents, including the Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Abruzzi, the Duke of Sparta and the King of the Belgians. On the whole, how- ever considering the reckless use to which some of the autos are put, the results are a grand testimony to _ the effic- iency of the auto. A Bicycle Reaction According to Percy P. Pierce, president of the Pierce Bicycle Co. ef Buffalo, who once drove the Pierce Great Arrow car to victory in two Glidden Tours, bicyclesare coming in again, Says Mr. Pierce ; ‘*The sales of this season thus far have been far greater than those of last year at this time, and those in turn were greater than in 1906. The figures do not come anywhere near the enormous totals of the late ninetizs when the bicycle was king and if you didn’t ride you A RUSSELL ‘LINE UP. This is Main Street, Invercargill, New Zealand—the farthest point south in that island ever reached by an automobile. five Russell motor cars in military line-up. Motor Co., Ltd. Toronto Junction, are to be congratulated on the world- In the picture are The Canada Cycle and wide growth of their industry—the making of Russell cars. weren’t anyone. Now, however, the re- action is being felt. For a few seasons after the bicycle boom flattened out like a punctured tire there wasn’t any more interest in the bicycle than there is in a cent in a busted savings bank. The stalwart few stuck to the game. ___In the cities the new boom isn’t felt so much as in the towns. The arguments made there which sell bicycles is the appeal to the saving instincts. The bicycle knocks out car fares and still furnishes a lot of fun for those who can’t afford a motor- cycle, much less an automobile.” The Speed of Motor Cars It is reported that at the Brooklands track, near London, England, Felice Nazzaro, the Italian driver, made a world’s record by driving at a speed of one hun- dred and twenty miles an hour for a dis- tance of two and three quarter miles. Two miles a minute is not flying but it is not far off. Summary of Auto. Growth. The manufacture of automobiles first began to assume the proportions of being one of the country’s greatest industries in 1902, said Charles C. Clinton, of the Geo. N. Pierce Co. of Buffalo, and trom the figures compiled, which show the > great progress since, itis clear whata tactor it has become in America’s indus- trial life. Twenty-one concerns now in operation were doing business in 1902. Fifty-two were in the business that year. Eighteen discontinued before 1903, In 1903 there were 71 new concerns in the business, same year. year. and 30 discontinued the There were 100 in all that In 1904 there were 54 concerns in the business, and 40 discontinued, or 106 inall. — eS ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. in” to pay duty, Regal Shells Dominion Cartridges : (Sure Fire) 175 Far Off (Ballistite Dense Smokeless Powder) Hills Look OU sportsmen who buy ammunition from the States should take this old saying to yourselves. — No better cartridges, no better shells are made anywhere in the world than right here in Canada. Dominion Ammunition. We have distinct advantages over imported ammunition in our factory methods and in such ingredients as we import from our great English allies, the Nobles. the world, where it is claimed no other ammunition is quite soi good. The price is right for the best. high quality, expert care, exhaustive tests. No others are quite so good as Our exports go to all corners of Every penny you pay is for You don’t ‘‘chip Although Dominion Ammunition sells lower than the ‘next best.”’ we ask you to judge on its quality alone. The Proof is in the Shooting. Be Fair to Home Factories. Crown Shells Sovereign Shells (Best Black Powder) (Empire Bulk Smoke- less Powder) Dominion Cartridge Company, Ltd., Montreal. SiS A A PE In 1905 there were 51 new concerns,and 38 discontinued, or I41 in all. In 1906 there were 43 new concerns and 29 discontinued, or 146 in all. In 1907 there were 51 new concerns and 168 in all. The following table illustrates the growth of the output of the American automobile industry since 1903 by the cost of the cars which were manufactured during those years : Output Cost. oT) 3 ah Ek aa as $16.000,000 Ee Bs ees oa 24,500,000 ‘aly 2 eS tie aa ae 40,000,000 Lil PSNR aie 65,000,000 ee cass... ke 90,000,000 Magneto Ignition. Designer Sam Hartly, of the Cleveland Motor Car Company sets forth the merits of magneto ignition in the following manner. We believe that the gasoline car should be independent of outside necessities so ar as possible and that given fuel and oil, there should not be a further expense to the user, put that by the mechanical generations of electricity the ignition problem shonld be made reliable, durable and without further expense to the buyer for batteries or for charging storage cells, which may be exhausted at inoppor- tune times, as well as being some con- siderable expense to re-place or re-charge. Further than this, the magneto gives a better spark than the usual battery, be- cause it is not considered adviseable to carry a sufficient weight of battery to produce a spark larger than actually necessary, although it is well recognized that an increased spark size results in increased power and therefore is really economical in the saving of fuel. This as well affords greater satisfaction in the vehicle, as greater flexibility arises from the increased motor power givea by the large spark. Taxicabs in London. Mr. De Magner, of the American branch of the Panhard & Levassor Co., who has returned from London and Paris 17 reports that taxicabs have become such popular street vehicles in London that the demand for them is much greater than the supply. He adds: ‘‘The taxicabs are used by all classes, day and night atthe uniform rate of twelve cents a mile, and they presenta most attractive appearance in all hues with chaffeurs in bright and smart liveries. Although scarcely a year has passed since these swift-moving carriages ap- peared, the capital already invested in London taxicabs is $10,000,000. There are 758 taxicabs onthe streets, 2,600 taxi- cabs on order, and 1,700 licensed drivers. There are eight taxicab companies, their average day’s takings of a taxicab being $11.20. Theaverage cost of a London taxicab is $1,703 and its average takings are about $78 a week. Some chauffeurs are already buying their own taxicabs on the installment plan, and the picturesque hansom is disappearing gradually, like the old-fashioned horse ’bus, which prac- tically has been crowded aside by the motor onnibus.”’ Chassis, according to Mr.C. M Hamil- ton of the Isotta Import Co. of New York is both singular and plural, and chases for the plural is out of order. One word suffices for singular and plural. From the first introduction to the pub- lic the portable storage batteries of the Apple Electric Company, Dayton, Ohio, have proved staunch favorites. Since that time constant study and experience have led to improvements with the result that many of the troublesome features developed in the early days have been overcome. The batteries are made to stand the rough usage inseparable from practical automobile and motor boat service. They have been so far perfected that the care they require is simple and anyone who will follow the instructions accompanying each battery will find that they can easily keep their batteries in good shape. Those who are not acquaint- ed with the merits of this battery, or who wish to know anything about igni- tion either for auto, motor boat, station- ary gas engine, etc. would do well to communicate with the company at Day- ton, Ohio and mention ‘‘Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.”’ 76 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. The Wonders of the Auto. American locomotives have been our boast at home and abroad. In points of design, durability, and general efficiency we shall probably maintain the world’s supremacy for a long and indefinite per- iod, says R. E. Olds, President of the Reo Motor Car. Company. We shall likewise undoubtedly continue to lead every nation in both quality and value of their production. This wonderfully per- fected self-propelling vehicle is provided with road-beds and tracks as nearly per- fect as American engineering skill and unlimited capital can afford. Public safety demands this and public sentiment in- sists that anything short of this is criminal. The locomotive engineer must serve a long and unbroken period of apprentice- ship under the skillful scrutiny ot a master mechanic before he is permitted to pre- side at the throttle. Ordinarily one hund- red and fifty miles constitutes a division and rarely does it cover more than one hundred and seventy-five miles. At the terminus, engines and crews are exchang- ed, the former being carefully overhauled and repaired by experts while the latter are permitted to rest and recuperate, and the world counts it a great engineering feat. Compare automobiling engineering and efficiency with this for but a moment. An automobile is driven from 1500 to 2000 miles over the hilliest and roughest road through seven or more states under the strict surveillance of an observer nominat- ed by a competitor. It must report neither late nor ahead of time at each control. Morever it must survive a gruelling con- test of this length for a period of fifteen or more consecutive days without making a single repair or replacement under heavy penalty. Orit may even makea world’s non-stop record covering 4992 miles in twelve consecutive days as did the Reo roadster recently without stop- page of the motor. In making a trip trom Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. and back again as the crow flies, the dis- tance covered would approximate 4970 miles. On the other hand if a similar trip were begun at Paris and run to Berlin and from thence to St. Petersburg; back to Rome and from there to Madrid; thence to Paris and London and then, on ~ to Edinburgh, and finally a trip into the Grampian Mountains in Northern Scot- ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA i We a ee. SR” N,N Bi te ae Nata a he, LP A oe Rah wR AT F pe ef - Dg ” HAs nig aa ae Pulling for the Shore! One of Uncle Sam’s Navy boys was given up by the doctor. His stomach would not retain food or medicine, until a mess-mate suggested SER, OR, CAT e Grape-Nuts On this world-famed food and milk he gained about 40 lbs. in four months and got well. It requires no ‘‘Expert Chemist” to prove that “THERE'S A REASON” for Grape-Nuts. Made by Postum Cereal Company, Limited. Battle Creek, Mich., U. S. A. aie ate a has a a oe oe CN Ares 2 b ew . wd i te he os hh ee =, ARSE TAR Pe PAU ee, FS CE ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA FAMOUS Nipigon River Finest Brook Trout on the Continent. We carry a complete line of Tourists Supplies, including Canoes and Camp Equipment. For further information write for Pamph- let with Map of River and Lake free of charge. Revillon Bros., Ltd. (Established 1723.} NIPIGON, ONTARIO. 71 Ib. Catch. .~> A 71 1b. Catch. land, the distance covered on either one of the above instances would still be less than was covered by the Reo in California recently when winning its world record non-stop run. Figuring this distance on the basis of 150 miles usually required of a locomotive to run between repairs, adjustments and overhauling it would en- title the motor car to thirty-three controls or stops for repairs in every 1962 miles and yet be entitl.d to a place beside the American locomotive for engine efficiency. The conclusion is obvious. Automobile engineering has won its spur by sheer force of merit and efficiency and this is notably true of the American engineer. He has well merited the confidence and plaudits of the engineering world. Calgary branch of the Alberta Fish and Game Protective Association at their annual meeting elected the follow- ing officers :— President Col. Cunliffe ; Vice President, Fred Green ; Secretary- treasurer, F. C. Lowes; delegates to the Provincial Convention, Messrs. Darker, Peet, Ings, Green Adams Marnin, Cun- liffe, Winter, Lowes, and Hogbin. Dis- cussion took place on several subjects, the most important being the pro - posed establishment of a fish hatchery at Banff. Several delegates expressed the opinion that a fish hatchery at Banff would keep the streams and lakes of the Province well supplied with fish. The Secretary was instructed to communicate with the Department of Marine and Fisheries, through the Hon. Frank Oliver, pressing the importance of this matter upon the consideration of the Department and urging immediate attention to the subject. It was stated that Alberta had some of the finest fishing streams in th world and may yet attract armies of tourists. The People’s Game and Fish Protective Association of Nova Scotia have issued a private postcard on the front of which are the names of the President and Sec- retary, over colored pictures of the moose, woodcock and trout, with the mottoes ‘Protect the Game’ and the ‘‘People’s heritage underneath. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Improvement is the order of the day and the Artz Fold- ing Tonneau, manufactured by the Dayton Folding Ton- neau Company, Dayton, O. may be classed as a distinct improvement. Its success in the States during the last three years has been rapid, every one being captivated by its appearance and _ use- fulness and now itis to be introduced into the Dominion there can not be a doubt as to its success in equal pro- portions in this side of the line. sight it appears incredible that a large tonneau can be folded up, but the Artz is so constructed that this can be done in a few seconds without the use of tools. The great strength and stiffness of the back is obtained by makiny it of five layers of veneer, one half inch gross thickness, alternate layers crossing the grain of the others. To fold up the tonneau the first operation is to fold the seat (which is pivoted at the rear _edge) up into the curve of the back; next the side panels (which are hinged at their rear edgesto the back) curved in against the seat, with the front lower corners crossing each other and held back tight against the up- turned seat by a spring hook. The back is then folded forward and down. There are steel springs in both seat and back Cleveland Battery Connector. The Cleveland Battery Connector illus- trated herewith, is manufactured by the Cleveland Spark Plug Company, 1030 Power Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, who man- ufacture the Cleveland Spark Plug, known especially as the ‘‘plug. with the spiral core that shoots a flame.” The At. first 179 and the cushions are made in leather and stuffed with curled hair. The extension front shown in the illustration is only put in when the rear deck is longer than the tonneau proper. The Company manu- factures a good line of single and double rumble seats, artillery boxes and folding lazy back seats. Any reader desiring to build automobile bodies or extra seats can obtain five ply front seat backs, ton- neau backs, and rumble seat backs of this Company who are pioneers in the manufacture of such backs. use of the Cleveland battery connector does away with troublesome thumb-nuts, and makes a permanent connection that cannot be jarred loose. A special No. 16 insulated copper cable is used, made es- pecially to the Company’s order. The bronze coils at each end are permanently fastened without soldering. To apply the Cleveland battery connector, you re- move the thumb-nut, seize the connector between thumb and forefinger, and force over threads as illustrated. The coiled bronze wire will clamp firmly with a vise- like grip which nothing can dislodge. You cannot pull them off unless you first expand the bronze coil by twist- even ing the free end to the left. SPORTS AFLOAT! Being a Section Devoted to Those Who Brave Wind and Wave, in White-winged Yacht or Dainty Canoc, Edited by LOU. E. MARSH in Fragile Shell or Swift Power Boat Misfortune Brings Out the Right Spirit. The members of the Tecumseh Boating Club of Wakerville, Ont., whose boat- house was destroyed by fire at the be- ginning of the season at a loss to the Club of about $10,000, met their misfor- tune in a right gallant spirit. Withina fortnight of the fire they held their annual meeting when it was reported that avail- able resources’, that could be applied to- wards the cost of rebuilding aggregated nearly $5,000. It was decided to erect a new building at a cost of $8,000 and arrangements were made for taking steps to secure the additional $3,000. A Build- ing Committee was elected and plans adopted, while it was also decided to erect a temporary wooden house If the fire had not occurred the Club would have been in as prosperous a condition as at any time in the history of the organiza- tion. The election of officers, who have a difficult year in front of them, resulted as tollows :— Honorary President—Mr. F. H. Wal- ker. President—Mr. J. R. Coate. Vice President—Mr. W.P. Ladd. Secretary—Mr. Wm. Daniels. Treasurer—Mr. H. H. Bennett. Directors—Messrs. W. H. Isaacs, J.E. Dobie, J.W. Petch, R. H. Revell and F. H. Cooper. Captain—Mr. A H. Wilson. The Swimmers in Good Shape. The following are the officers for the thirteenth season of the Toronto Swim- ming Club :— Hon. President—H. A. Sherrard. Hon. Vice Presidents—A. C. Goode, Dr. C. Sheard, A. L. Cockrane. President—C. S. Norris. Vice President—A. J. Raynor. Hon. Secretary—J. M. Gouinlock. Assistant Secretary—J. W. Anderson. Treasurer—J. G. Fleming. Captain—A. H. Field. Vice-Captain and Swimming Instructor —E,. W. Vernon. It was stated at the meeting at which these officials were elected that the Club is now in good shape. They have their own building and their new diving tower is fully completed. A Lake Simcoe Association. The residents of Lake Simcoe have de- cided to form an Association of their own on similar lines to those governing the Muskoka Lakes Association. All resid- ents of the Lake over eighteen years of age are eligible for membership. The object of the Association is to unite to- gether the interests of those in different parts of the lake and to encourage acqua- tic and other sports in Lake Simcoe. It was decided to hold the annual regatta at Roach’s Point on civic holiday. The following were elected as the first Officers : Hon. President—E. B. Osler, M. P. Hon. Vice-Presidents—Dr. J. A. Tem- ple, J. B. Kay, W. Kemp, J. Strachan, T. H. Sheppard. ; . President—Lewis A. Howard, Keswick. Vice-Predident—G. A. Kingstone, East- bourne. Second Vice-President—F. D. Porter, Orchard Beach. Secretary—Alexander Warden, Roach’s Point. Treasurer — F. G. Hearn, Beach. $ Committee—J. C. Baker, Belle Ewart ; Cecil Kilgour, Roach’s Point; T.H. Brunton, Orchard Beach; Lieut. Col. W. G. Macdonald, De Grassi Point ; Rev. J. Orchard ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 181. SAFETY“AUTOMATIC®. REVOLVER We point to the difference between the posi- tively and absolutely safe Iver Johnson Safety Automatic Revolver and the imitation near-safe- ties. They have some device added fo them to make them near-safe. The safety feature of the Iver Johnson Safety is the firing mechanism itself—not some spring or button device to pull or press. That is why you can, in perfect safety—vzo/ near-safety—kick it, cuff it, knock it, or HAMMER THE HAMMER “SHOTS,’’ our booklet, tells all about it ina plain, simple way, so you can’t go astray onthe SAFE revolver question. Send for itt—FREE. Iver Johnson Safety Hammer Revolver Richly nickeled, 22 calibre rim-fire or 2 calibre center-fire, 7,50 3-inch barrel, or 38 calibre center-fire, 34-inch barrel, Iver Johnson Safety Hammerless Revolver a-inch, barrel, or 38 8 50 Richly nickeled, 32 calibre center-fire, calibre center-fire, 334-inch barrel, - - - Hasmer See price if dealer will not supply. New York: g9 Chambers Street. Hamburg, Germany: Pickhuben 4. Sold by Hardware and Sporting Goods dealers everywhere, or sent prepaid on receipt of Look for the owl’s head on grip and our name on barrel. IVER JOHNSON’S ARMS & CYCLE WORKS, 157 River Street, Fitchburg, Mass. San Francisco: Phil. B. Bekeart Co., 717 Market St. Iver Johnson Single Barrel Snotguns and Truss Bridge Bicycles e (Extra length barrel or blued finish at slight extra cost) (Extra length barrel or blued finish at slight extra cost) Hyde, Eastbourne, T. A. Reid, Jackson Point ; J. F. Edgar, Moreton Park. Lady Crews for Ottawa. The managers of the Ottawa Canoe Club are contemplating following the example of Montreal and organizing a war canoe crew composed of ladies. The St. Lambert’s Club, Montreal, can turn out three of such crews and _ the ladies have given fine performances. A war canoe race between crews composed of ladies would certainly add greatinterest to any competitions in which they took part. The New Edinburghs The New Edinburgh’s crew are work- ing hard, and having succeeded in ob- taining all but one of last year’s paddler’s they appear likely to give a good account of themselves in any contest. for which they may enter. The club are to have crack paddlers in the fours, singles and doubles and their junior crews will also be very strong. —— Canadian Henley Officials. The following officers were appointed at a meeting of the executive committee of the Canadian Association of Amateur Oarsman to manage the Canadian Henlev at St. Catharines on Friday and Saturday, August seventh and eighth. Ed. Mack, Seto ne Major Heron, E; T. Boland, Claude Macdonell, M. P, - Alex. Boyd, Capt. J. Wilson, G. S. Ew- art, E. F: Seixas, Capt.. A. H. Malcolm. son, J. W. McAllister, Be alt Mulqueen and L. C. Hoskins, secretary. Rule 14 has been suspended at the discretion of the umpire. Organizing the Paddlers. The Ottawa Association of Acquatic Clubs has been formed for the purpose of dealing principally with the ‘‘deadheads.”’ The following were elected officers :— Chairman—E. A. Olver, Victoria Yacht club. Vice-Chairman Canoe Club. Secretary — protem J. M. Britannia Boating club. The secretary of each Club will forward not later than June fifth of each year a list of the mem- bers of his club who are in good stand- ing andalso those who are under sus- pension. —W. A. Lamb, Ottawa Douglas, 182 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. A Dependable Companion Wherever you go or whenever you go, whether on business or pleasure, be sure to take along a Conklin Pen, and you'll always be ready for any writing emergency. You’ll never be held up through lack of ink. When last drop is exhausted fill CON KLIN 'S again at nearest ink-well by simply dipping in pen and pressing Crescent- Filler. No bdthersome dropper, no fuss, no muss, no cleaning up to do. Self-filling, self-cleaning. Won’t scratch, blot, balk or skip. There is no other pen in the world like it. Leading dealers handle the Conklin. If Yours don’t, order direct. Prices, $3.00, $4.00, $5.00 to $15.00. Send for hand- some new catalogue. Motoring in Canada. The American Consul at Windsor, Ont. directs attention to the great field for motor boating which exists in that town. The Detroit River and Lake St. Clair with their numerous beautiful islands have many popular pleasure resorts. These are reached other than by motor boat although the pleasure of these ex- cursions would be greatly augmented by the use of such boats. Probably the near neighborhood of Detroit accounts for the absence of manufacturers and agencies at - Windsor, although the place offers ex- ceptional facilities for either or both to do good business. The Consul at Halifax, N. S., makes a very Similar statement regarding his dis- trict and points out what a fine field there is in applying motors to the Nova Scotian fishing fleet. He argues strongly in favor of sending an American rep- resentative to the district and when familiarised with the requirements of the fleet applying just what is required. Batteries are matters with which every THE CONKLIN PEN MFG. CO. 315 Manhattan Bldg. TOLEDO, OHIO ... U.S.A. one who has anything to do with electrical appliances look upon as very important, and consequently a good battery is much to be desired. The X cells dry batteries. manufactured by the Electrical Speciali- ties Limited 12-14-16 Shuter Street, Toronto, are evidently just that kind of battery as with all the thousands sent out to different parts of the country nota single complaint has been received. Many letters of commendation have been sent in but the first complaint has yet to make its appearance. The Company’s factory is up to date, the staff efficient, and the business is conducted on such terms that customers are satisfied. A larger type of battery is now being made with a recuper- ative power that astonishes customers. If any user’s dealers do not supply these batteries a line direct to the Company will assure prompt attention anda supply at factory prices. To show their confidence in their batteries the manufacturers offer to refund the money in any case where their factory. X cells haven’t been found satis- ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 183 CRUISING AND RACING GASOLINE LAUNCHES BPULLY EQUIPPED aap oe Sr ae A VARIETY OF STYLES IN STOCK BRO 16 to -35° ft... IN »- LENGTH. Special Light Motor Boats FOR HUNTING AND FISHING Hulls furnished, caulked, puttied and painted ready for interior fittings. Knock Down Frames, Frame and Plank Patterns. Second Hand Launches. Send for Catalog Robertson Bros. Yards and Launch Works Foot of Bay St., HAMILTON, CANADA. PPPPPPPPP DS SS . an : 184 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. YY V90.—"™'” Wy de Witt; GY tH ia CW Gi WOK WG When: 3 Selly MUA 5 Y diy Extra close shooting with even distribution and good pene- Send for Art Catalog and special eee on 18 grades wera es Ml tration are essential qualities that a gun must possess for the Yj very best success at the traps. Ithaca Guns have a world-wide y) reputation for their superior shooting qualities. yj Every Ithaca Gun is guaranteed in every part—shooting j Ya included. }j j ‘‘Bob’ Edwards the veteran barrel borer is still boring q them. Uf Here’s what some of our customers say about them : j \Y ‘The Pigeon Gun came yesterday. Itisa beauty and y a hard close shooter. The boys all tried it at our club shoot Y and everyone pronounced tt a peach.” Y E. Beckwith, Sec. Mt. Pleasant Gun Club, q Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Y “My Ithaca No, 4 arrived all O. K. and to say that I ] am satisfied is mildly expressing tt. It ts without doubt Z the finest arm I have ever handled; both the shooting qual- }; ities and the finish are superfine.” Yi Bert Mason, Salamanca, N.Y. $17.75 net to $800 list. SSS S89 ITHACA RN ae IN A good carburetor is a must impor- tant consideration both for automobiles and motor boats and owners of either or both know well the necessity for careful selection. In all considerations of this kind the Heitger Carburetor should not be overlooked. Model A is the automo- bile type and Model B of the Marine type. Both have been perfected after many ex- periments, and the models for 1908 show improvements making them more reliable, neat and compact. 205 West Ind., The Heitger Com- South Street, In- have met with such pany, dianapolis, success with these carburetors that they have had to increase their facilities for manufacturing to such an extent that they are now turning out over one thous- and carburetors per month. The plant is modern, the materials used the best ob- tainable, and with skillful workmen very fine results are achieved—results which amply account for the success the carbure- tor has obtained. The Company issues an interesting little booklet giving par- ticulars and illustrations of their carbure- tor and this will be sent free to any of our interested readers who will apply direct to them and mention ‘‘Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.” Marine motors are now made equal to. all kinds of work. The light pleasure skiff, the high speed boat, and the heav- ier commercial boat can all be pleasurably and profitably worked by motor~ power. Motors are reliable, powerful and econo- mical and the man who has _ once realised how much greater are his advantages with a motor will not willingly go back to sails and oars. The many motors on the market show how rapid is the rate of Mdddddddldddddddldddddddddddddddedeeee vil AS ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 185 progress in the use of the motor for power. Amongst the numerous aspirants for pub- lic favor the Brennan motor, manufactur- ed by the Brennan MotorCompany, Syra- cuse, N. Y. is one giving smooth running under all conditions. The motors are standard from eighteen to eighty horse power and have stood the most severe tests. The same company supplies en- gines and transmission gears complete for any standard automobile car, and will also build very reasonably to order, four cylinder chassis complete. The company are experts on motors and are willing to give the benefit of their knowledge and experience to anyone who will consult them on motors. They also publisha leaflet telling users how to start the motor, describing various causes of mis- firing and giving a special warning against any attempt to run the motor whena knocking sound is heard. The best policy in such a case is to stop and correct the difficulty. While motor boats are first favorites everywhere, row boats are not likely to be abolished very soon and those who like short journeys on the water with some exercise will fill the square stern and pointed stern row boats, manufactur- ed by the W. H. Mullins Company, of Dayton, Ohio (distributed throughout. Canada, by Mr. N. R. Thompson, Brant- ford Ont.,) ideal for this class of work. Mr. Thompson will gladly answer all in- quiries and guarantees to give purchasers full satisfaction. A Fast Motor Boat. A new speed marvel in the motor boat line has been givena try-out at Toronto. She rana mile in 2.30 which means twenty-four miles an hour and also means the fastest boat on the bay. The new boat was built by the Marine Con- struction and Power Company,of Toronto for Mr. M. G. Bellman, of Toronto. She is thirty-two ft. long,four feet four beam, and has a draft of less than a foot. She is fitted with a four cylinder thirty horse power Roberts engine. She is a distinct racing type making no noise. Marine motors are in ever increasing demand and amongst the large numbers which those demands have called into existence the Caille Perfection deserves SHOT The use ‘of “M.R. M.” Chilled Shot by trap shooters means satisfac- tion and high scores. Our Shot is made to suit. Right material, correctness as to size, round and well finished are the features which make our Shot a favorite with particular sportsmen. See that this trade mark is on every bag. TRADE MARK THE MONTREAL ROLLING MILLS Co. more than passing notice. The makers— the Caille Perfection Motor Company 1322 Second Avenue, Detroit Mich., claim that this is the most powerful and quietest engine built and consequently the most effective for its work. Many motor boat owners have used this engine in their boats and are more than satisfied with their experience. Asa sample we quote the following :— Montreal, Dec. 18th, 1907. Dear Sirs :—Ifyou are getting out a new catalogue for 1908 I wish you would send me one. Although I will not be in the market for another motor the coming season, still I want to keep in touch with your line, and also it will give me pleas- ure to putin a good word for you with any prospective buyers I may run across. I am pleased to say that the little 2 H. P. motor purchased from you last spring went through the summer and fall with- out asingle break down or hitch of any kind, a remarkable good record by a most satisfactory engine. If you wish to use this as an unsolicited testimonial you are quite at liberty to do so. Yours truly, V. L Gnaedinger. Pure Wool Day and Night Wear The One Best for Camping, etc. *Is4x7~- Jaeger Pure Wool Wear Adaptability * enables you to withstand any sudden change in the weather or tem- perature without discomfort or danger to health. It does not chill when damp—like linen or cotton garments. You can allow Jaeger Wear to dry on you with perfect safety. - sls%xy- Jaeger Wear is made Serviceability: Hes! wool of the high- est quality, of absolute purity and of the best workmanship. This combination gives Jaeger Wear a unique durability in withstanding the hard wear and tear of camp life. You cannot do better than put some of the fol- lowing articles in your camp kit: Sweaters, Shirts, Camp Rugs, Golf Coats, Sleeping Bags, Stockings, Caps, Under- wear, Dressing Gowns, etc. Jaeger Wear is sold at fixed moderate prices in most cities in Canada. Ask your dealer, but look for the Jaeger trade mark, Send for copy of ‘‘Health Culture.” RETAIL DEPOTS: Montreal: 316 St. Catherine St. W. Toronto: 10 Adelaide St. W. Winnipeg: Steele Block, Portage Ave. fe ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. The Olympic Trials. For the Olympic trial matches on the St. Catharines course Rule I4 of the Rules of Racing wassuspended at the discretion of the umpire. Rule 14 reads as under :— Accidents—14. Fvery boat shall abide | by its accidents, except when during a race, a boat while in its own water (while on the course) shall be interfered with by any outside boat, the Umpire may order the race to be rowed over, if in his Opinion such interference materially af- fected its chances of winning the race. The “Refined” Motor. This three horse power Motor only weighs fifty pounds and is_ specially adapted for canoes, dingheys, row-boats, dories and tenders up to twenty feet in length. The Motor is of first class con- struction being guaranteed by the makers for two years against defective parts. The cylinder has a three and a half inch bore with a stroke of three and a half inches. The engine turns a twelve inch propeller at from two hundred to eight hundred revolutions per minute. There are no gaskets or packing of any kind used, neither are there any valves, springs, triggers, cams, nor gears to get out of _ order. All working parts are accessible, it reverses instantly, is of simple con- struction, and is easily operated. The ‘‘Refined” Motor has given the greatest satisfaction wherever sold as can be seen by the testimonials furnished by Dinning & Eckenstein, Merchants Bank Building, Montreal, who are placing these engines on the market. Their ‘‘Marine Bulletin” No. 10 can be had on request. — Alpine Club Notes Before another number of the Maga- zine is published the third annual camp will be over. Arrangements have been so carefully made that success appears assured. Accommodation has been pro- vided for two hundred campers and Rogers Pass from July sixth to the fif- teenth will be the scene of much active excitement. An extensive program has been arranged and the climbers will find plenty of exercise. It is announced that the Rev. C. R. B. Kinney, who has been a member of the Club from the start, will make an at- tempt this summer in company of Pro- fessor Coleman, of Toronto University, to scale Mt. Robson. Mr. Kinney visited the foot of the mountain last year with a view of attempting the feat but as clima- tic conditions were against him he reserv- ed his efforts for a later date. A start will be made from Edmonton in August, the route being by way of the Athabasca. After, the climb, successful or not, Profes- ' sor Coleman will return east while Mr. Kinney will go to Victoria where he is now stationed. The Canadian Pacific Railway was, as is usually the case with this great com- pany, generous in the matter of railway fares, allowing members the benefit ot one-way fares plus twenty five cents when the standard railway Convention Certifi- cate was secured. The Camp Secretary (Mr. C. Wheeler) issued a special circu- lar to all members calling particular at- tention to this matter and he was not responsible if anyone neglected to thus secure their position. Ontario Forest, Fish and Game Protective Association The resolution adopted at the Toronto Convention, upon the proposition of the Woodstock Branch, to the effect that protection will never be effectually car- ried out until entrusted to a separate De- partment with a Cabinet Minister at its head is evidently causing a little thinking throughout the Province. Here is what the ‘‘North Star’, of Parry Sound, has to say on the subject :—‘‘The attempt to administer the Fish 'and Game Protec- tion Act under the Minister of Public Works for the Province is a mistake. The Minister of Public works has_ too large a department to give the time nec- essary to the game and fishery protec- tion, and there should be either a depart- mental head or the Department should be attached to the office of the Provincial Sec- retary or some other department having less work than that of the Minister of Public Works. The enforcement of the game and fishery laws is more or less of a farce.” Theleaven is working though it may take some time to leaven the whole lump. Mr. A. Kelley Evans, who was an- nounced as an Independent Conservative candidate for South Toronto for the Leg- islature, to fight mainly on the program of the Association, withdrew his candida- ture on the assurance of the Premier that these points in the programme should have the immediate and sympathetic consideration of the Cabinet. Now that Premier Whitney has been again return- ed to power it is up to Mr. Evans and the other members of the Association to see that he makes good the promises he has given. We regret to have to record the fact that the Berlin branch of the Association has been disbanded. Amongst the many other engagement of the members it was found difficult to get a meeting and with the discouragement of the officers the branch ceased to exist as an active force. Mr. A.W. Merner, the Secretary, did his best but receiving no support gave up the task. This does not mean that Berlin people have no longer any interest in the subjects dealt with by the the Association and we look forward to seeing a young vigorous branch reorgan- ize at Berlin. OUR MEDICINE BAG If any of our readers are thinking of visiting the Quebec Tercentenary Cele- bration, or may have been deterred from making arrangements to do so on account of doubt as to whether accommodation could be secured, we would like to draw their attention to the Tent City. There is little doubt that those who take up their quarters in canvas town will be the most comfortable visitors to Quebec. Every detail has been most carefully thought out and every modern luxury has been provided. There will be accommodation for 10,000 people, if neccessary, and there will be accommodation of all kinds, that is to say, there will be big tents, little tents and cubicles. The streets of this city will be lit by electric light, the sani- tary arrangements are of the best and latest design, and running water, hot and cold, will be laid in every room. Stoves will be provided in case of inclement weather. The prices are extremely reas- onable both for accommodation and meals. An experienced hotel man will look after the general details and the caterer is one whose reputation in the States makes the success of this portion of the enterprise a certainty. Anybody who takes.our advice and locates in this novel and thoroughly up-to-date ‘‘hotel”’ will get an interesting experience added - to their holiday which will never be for- gotten. Dr. Grenfell, the heroic medical missionary of the Labrador coast, had a thrilling adventure recently which nearly ended his useful career. Dr. Grenfell had left Battle Harbour on a medical visit to patients at a distant settlement and was proceeding with a light komatik and a fast team of dogs, Familiarity with the ice led the Doctor to venture across a bay eight miles in width, on loose ice which was being pressed in by a northeast wind. During his journey the wind veered suddenly off the land and blew hard. The Doctor, komatik and dogs disappeared but fortunately the / Doctor not only succeeded in cutting the dogs loose but scrambling on anice pan twelve feet square also hauling up his eight dogs on the same place, The ice was drifting out to sea and the Doctor had to get shelter or freeze. According- ly, although ‘‘it felt like murder”, he stabbed three of the largest dogs and borrowed their coats. were piled up for a windbreak and thanks to these precautions, the Doctor, who had to spend a dreary night under these depressing circumstances, escaped with nothing worse than frost bites. Next day he was rescued by some of the brave fishermen for whom he has done so much with the result of ‘‘increasing my affec- tion and respect for the class of men from whom my rescuers are derived, and amongst whom it is my good fortune to be passing my life.’”’ By a remarkable coincidence the Doctor was clad in his football flannels which helped him more than the regulation garments of the missionary. He lost his komatik, sur- gical instruments, rifle and outfit. ‘‘The revulsion of feeling’, says the Doctor, ‘in really stepping on to dry land again made mountains dwindle into veritable molehills”. The experience will draw the Doctor and- his flock closer together and enable them to see how much each owes to the other. Mr. Bastedo is evidently finding his task of negotiating between the Domin- ion Government and the Provinces over fishing matters, a work of much diffi- culty. Reports from the provincial capi- tals show that the local governments are desirous of controlling their own inland fisheries. _ How federal and provincial rights are to be adjusted is a matter for experts though we hope some means will be found by which it may be possible to ensure something like a uniform policy throughout Canada. In the case of On- tario matters are said to be at a deadlock andthe negotiations are little better in~ Nova Scotia. The carcases— ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 189 “Old Twilight” puts in an effective plea for better protection of the birds in the ‘‘North Star”, of Parry Sound, Ont. He\ has no objection to fish and game protection—indeed very much the other way—but wishes to include birds in such protection. He points out that the ne- cessity for spraying fruit and vegetables is largely due to the scarcity of birds and concludes that if we continue to allow our song and insectiverous birds to be slaught- ered the day will soon come when we shall ‘‘hev to spray our grain crops an’ our grass, an by ginger ! the day’ll come when we will hev’ to spray our- selves, especially the old folks and the kids. We wouldn’t need no sprayin’ machines if we had the birds.” ‘‘Old Twilight” is down upon air guns and cats and thinks if the women would make as much fuss about these matters as the cigarette evil they would ‘‘be doin’ some- thin’ fer the country.”’ ‘‘Old Twilight” would forbid the manufacture and sale of air guns and license and tag cats, killing off all the felines that nobody owns. ‘‘People don’t encourage birds to come around; they would sooner depend upon paris green andcopperas. The trees are - gittin’ scarce and in the long drouths the water holes and springs dry up. What’s the matter with nailin’ up bird boxes and havin’ a bird bath in every orchard ? ‘You can’t believe how the birds would appreciate that ?” If something is rot done and that speedily he prophecies that ‘*a generation from now folks will wonder what a crow looked like, and you'll hev to go to a picter book to see a robin ?’, Mr. C. J. C. Crump writing from Ronville, Lake of Bays, Ont., early in April says: ‘‘Having justreturned from a fortnight’s snow shoe trip through the townships adjoining the southern bound- ary of the Algonquin Park,I thought you, and probably some of your readers,might be interested as to the conditions I found relative to the game and fur-bearing animals in that section of the country. Everywhere I found the same story—wolf tracks in abundance and virtually the only deer tracks I saw were those made when being chased by the wolves, and which, without exception, ended in cap- ture and murder of the deer. I saw three Take A Real Holiday The chief aim in taking a holi- day is to get out of the ‘‘rut’ of city living—living by the clock and by rule. In order to turn your vacation into a ‘‘real holiday’’ take a supply of BOVRIL with you to camp or to your country cottage. BOVRIL minimises the cook- ing—provides a delicious and sustaining meal in a few mom- ents, is handier than anything else and if added to Canned Meats, Pork and Beans, Stews, Fish, Soup, etc., it intensifies their flavor and increases their nourishing value very greatly. BOVRIL is nothing but the quintessence of beef. Alli that isin, beef “isin. BOV RIL. Try this recipe: BORRIL O42 tablespoonfuls Bread Crumbs 1 es Butter. Red a Re ek aie aie ? OUNCES Sgueese of lemon jutce. Thoroughly mix tn an en- amelled pan and spread be- tween slices of bread. The 8 oz. and 16 oz. sizes are more economical than the small bottles. BOVRIL Ltd., 27 St. Peter St., Montreal SERRE 190 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. In Sickness orin Health the best body builder—the food that gives bounce and buoyancy to mind and bod, is Shredded Whole Wheat a food for invalids and athletes, for outdoor men and indoor men, for busy housekeepers and city toilers, for summer home and summer camp, for any meal in any clime, the one universal food—to grow on, to work on, to play on, to live on. It is the wane wheat steam-cooked, shredded and baked in the cleanest, finest food factory in the world. No other food can match it for building strong and sturdy bodies, for restoring impaired digestion and giving vim and vigor to weary brains and worn-out bodies. Shredded Wheat (heated in oven) is delicious for break- fast with milk or cream, or for any meal in combination with fresh berries or stewed fruits. Cook BooK Our new and handsomely illustrated x ‘4 Cook Bcok ‘s sent free for the asking. “It’s Allin the Shreas” The Canadian Shredded Wheat Co.,Ltd.,'Niagara Falls, Ont. | Toronto Office: 32;Church St. 10 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Partially eaten carcases in one day, and seventeen altogether. A fact, not gener- ally known probably, is that wolves do not howl during the winter months, but steal upon their prey. Beyond all doubt, unless some remedial action be speedily taken, the number of deer will be annual- ly reduced, though they will not be exter- _minated, as the Algonquin Park is an ideal breeding ground. Putting it down at a low estimate, every wolf would kill at least twenty deer during the winter months. This annual wholesale slaugh- ter, coupled with the running of dogs during the open season, which undoubt- edly accounts for so many ‘‘dry does”, must eventually and at no distant period, -have but one ending. I am confident that if the bounty on wolves was increas- ed to $25.00, it would mean the destruc- tion of a good many, as there then would be inducement to hunt them systematic- ally. Ihad the good luck to shoot an adult she-wolf, who had been feeding on a partly eaten doe, killed sometime pre- viously. Signs of fur-bearing animals were tew and far between—in fact I saw only three mink tracks. Owing to the great demand for this fur during the last three years, it spells good money. This valuable animal is getting scarce and I would suggest a closed season for a few years the same as for otter and beaver. Beyond all doubt a great many moose and deer are killed out of season by men working in the lumber camps, who also do a lot of illegal trapping. Partridges are very scarce. To sum up the whole matter in order to protect our game and fur-bearing animals from partial if not total extermination, I would suggest : I. The appointment of game wardens at a yearly salary, who would devote all their time to their duties, and perform them conscientiously. 2. An increased bounty on wolves. 3. The stopping of running dogs during the open season. 4. The open season for deer to be four weeks, instead of two, limiting each licensee to two weeks hunting, with the privilege of killing two deer. Try this Bovril Recipe. Into a small enamelled pan put two tablespoonfuls of Bovril, a tablespoonful IQI of bread crumbs, two ounces of butter, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Season with pepper and salt. Thoroughly mix the whole together and then spread on thin slices of bread. This is a simple recipe but proves a really nutritious and appe- tizing ‘‘tit-bit’”’ for picnics, afternoon teas and all ‘‘al frasco” meals. Bovril is the quintessence of beef—it drives away hot weather lassitude and gives vigour and tone to the whole system. Added to Canned Meats, Pork and Beans, etc. it makes them ever so much more tasty, appetizing and nutritious. The eight and slxteen ounce sizes are more economical than the smaller bottles. Mr.. William Beech, who was _ the first settler of the Fort Churchill district at Hudson Bay, recently visited Ottawa for the first time and gave the officials of the Department of the Interior some most interesting information of the far North. Mr. Beech came from his home by way of York Factory, Oxford House and Norway House to Winnipeg—over eight hundred miles—by dog train. He reports good pulpwood at Sturgeon Lake, ‘‘the finest in the world.’”’ The trees run forty feet in length, straight, and without a limb upon them. His estimate was twenty millions of feet of spruce timber around Oxford Lake and the islands, and an abundance on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg and Thunder Lake. At Norway House he saw growing potatoes, cabbage, celery and parsnips. Some wheat was also raised asa test by a trader named Hyer, but Mr. Beech could not say how long it took to ripen. At Nor- way House the people are all Indians with the exception of the Hudson Bay employees. There are at the post Ang- lican and Methodist Churches and an Indian school. The people in charge of the churches have good flower and vege- table gardens. The few settlers are. greatly assisted in the work of portaging &c., by the Indians. In some of the lakes there are lots of fish but in some instances the Indians have difficulties in getting enough to live on. Pulpwood is also to be found on the Churchill River and at Fort Churchill Mr. Beach has seen. radishes and lettuce just as fine as 192 any in Ontario. The English Church clergyman has a fine garden with peas, beets, onions, etc., though in one year the plants did not reach perfection asa frost on July 13th greatly affected their growth. He thought it would be pos- sible to keep cattle there though an at- tempt to keep sheep had been frustrated by the wolves. There isan old fashioned sawmill at Fort Churchill and he believed if the settlement grew into a city there there would be sufficient timber for build- ing purposes. After leaving York Fac- tory Mr. Beech was sick and for twenty- three days lived in a shack with twenty Indians. He described the Cree and Chippewyan Indians as fairly civilized and dwelt upon their earnestness in relig- ious matters. However cold it might be, often forty below zero, the Indians would sit around bare headed when praying. Reports from the Pacific Coast state that the attempt to ‘‘transplant’’ lobsters from the Atlantic to the Pacific has in its preliminary stages been contpletely suc- cessful. The lobsters made their long journey in tanks without any apparent injury and on reaching Vancouver were transferred to open crates in which they were kept in the seafor sometime to en- able them to recover from any effects the change might have had upon them. When giving them the freedom of the Pacific all bearing spawn were retained in the crates in order that the progress of their breeding might be noted. At vari- ous protected bays up the coast the re- mainder were set free. These are expect- ed to find new homes for themselves in their virgin territory. So far there is every probability of the transplanting experiment proving successful. Sportsmen are great travellers and all their travels are not in the woods. In ordinary life they travel in cities and the great majority know much of hotel life. Canadian sportmen and tourists crossing the border to Detroit cannot do better than make for the Hotel Tuller, which they will find isa homelike though quite up-to-date establishment. It is pleas- antly situated and under the able manage- ment of Mr. M. A. Shaw maintains a ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. high reputation with the touring public. This reputation is thoroughly well deserv- ed and will be endorsed by all who find occasion to visit this hotel. Great precautions are being taken in both the eastern and western sections of the new Grand Trunk Pacific to prevent forest fires. The contractors are under special restrictions and patrols are regu- larly made to see that compliance with these restrictions are enforced in the various construction camps. The records of the Canada Atlantic, and the Temis- kaming and Northern Ontario are to be maintained if at all possible. No serious fires occurred during the construction of these railways and they afford proof that careful vigilance against such fires is suf- ficient to prevent them. As the new line will go through some of the grandest forest districts remaining in Canada this care will receive general commendation. Both in the east and the west extra fire rangers are being provided by the Domin- ion Government, and these in conjunction with thdse provided by the Provincial Governments and the foremen of the vari- © ous camps, should prove sufficient to prevent any serious fire. Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, an account of whose exploring trips through the so-called Barren Lands of Canada appeared in a recent issue, has been elected a member of the Explorers Club, of New York, of which Lieut. R. E. Peary is President. The Grand Trunk have just issued a new attractive little booklet in connection with the ‘‘Gananoque Inn” situated at © Gananoque. To the nature lover and artist the Canadian side of the Thousand Islands is the most beautiful and the most interesting. Gananoque is at the head of this most delightful region. The ‘‘Inn’”’ has been popular for some years and this year will not be an exception, Ganano- que itself has been famous as a health re- sort for centuries and long before the white man settled there. It is easy of access by some of the finest and fastest — trains of the Grand Trunk. Copy of book- let can be secured free on application to G. T. Bell, General Passenger Agent, — Montreal. a, ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 193 Guelph-Ward Ho! TAKE UP THE CRY; SHOUT IT FROM THE HOUSETOPS; AND JOIN THE MERRY- MAKERS AND YOUR FRIENDS AT Guelph’s Old Home Week AUGUST 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1908 Your welcome will be boundless—your entertainment limitless. SO LET IT BE—‘‘GUELPH-WARD HO!” and pass it on to your friends. WRITE FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND RAILROAD RATES, AND PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT. J. M. DUFF, J. M. STRUTHERS, Chairman. P. O. Box 544, Secretary. OTHERS tell you their battery is superior We Refund the Money if our X CELLS do not prove superior. You see WE ARE convinced. HOW. ABOUT YOU? A trial order will convince you. No. 6 X CELLS in barrel lots 19 cents No. 7 X CELLS in barrel lots 38 cents X CELLS? Yes, because they excell: all others. ELECTRIGAL SPECIALTIES, LIMITED 12-14-16 Shuter St., Toronto. UP-TO-DATE FACTORY. PROMPT SHIPMENTS. 194 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA The Rev. John Pringle, whose name has been much before the public recently, has been giving a description of the Yukon which classes it as one of the ereatest of Canada’s many assets. He points out that while the Klondyke is but fifty miles square, the Yukon has an area of two hundred thousand square miles. If anything like the riches of the Klon- dvke are to be found in other parts of the Yukon the riches of the country are be- yond estimate. Although the population has decreased from 27,000 to 6,000 he believes the tormer figure will be reached again. Mr. Pringle clears up some mis- conceptions as to the climate. On only a few occasions last winter did he find it necessary to wearan overcoat. Asa potato growing country it can hardly be surpassed. The fishing is first class while the timber is of a’ fairly good quality. Of course there are not the same facilities for wheat growing as in the western prairies. Coal in the form of lignite, is being used in the steamships and partially for do- mestic purposes. Copper mines were being worked vigorously until the big drop in the market price. The Rev. gentle- man is enthusiastic over the future of the Yukon and with good reason. The People’s Game and Fish Protective Association of Nova Scotia are still con- tinuing in their good work of fish pro- pagation. They recently received a large consignment of speckled trout fry from the government hatchery at Bedford, Halifax Co. which were placed in the Milton Ponds. If this restocking is continued the Milton Ponds should fur-~ nish the best trout fishing in the country. Evidences that moose are on the in- crease in the Province of New Brunswick continue to accumulate. A circumstantial story istold of an experience in Moncton which adds much tothe general tes- timony. Mr. A Metcalf, an employee in the city waterworks department on re- turning home one day in the early part oflast month found two moose—a bull and a cow—feeding in his yard. The for- mer showed fight when Metcalfe appeared but he managed to fend off the angry animal with an umbrella which he was carrying at the time and reached the shelter of his house. outskirts of the city report seeing moose feeding in the fields with the cows. Trainmen likewise report seeing numbers near the roads. In several instances farmers in different districts are applying for special licenses to kill moose in de- fence of their crops. The latest publication produced by the Advertising Department of the Grand Trunk Railway System is a booklet des- criptive of their line between Chicago and New York through Ontario via Niagara Falls, also Chicago and Portland, via Toronto and Montreal, under the title, “Trains 3 and 4.” It pictures to the reader by consise description and well printed half tones the route of these two popular trains. It is universally agreed that the lines of this great system provide a great diversity of scenery and reach many points of interest, and the route traversed by these two trains is no ex- ception. These features are-lucidly dwelt upon and are well illustrated in ‘‘Trains 3 and 4.”’ The publication is a handsome one of 32 pages, printed in two colors and is adorned by a strikingly beautiful cover printed by the tricromatic process, the sketch showing a head-on view of the premier train of the Grand Trunk System, ‘‘The International Limited” approaching as if through an archway with massive pillars on either side, surmounted by the Dominion Coat of Arms, with the Cana- dian and United States flags draped on either sides, emblematic of the internation- al character of the line, making in all a most pleasing effect. asking. Address G. T. Bell, general passenger and ticket agent, Montreal. Bruin paid a vist too many to the lum- ber camp occupied by Messrs. Stehelin, near Weymouth N.S. early last month. The first visit was paidon a Thursday evening and evidences of his curiosity in the way of over-turned articles were so numerous that no desire was felt fora repetition under like circumstances. However, as it was thought he might re- appear to complete the work of dis- The farmers on the It can be had for _of them are nearly ’ perfect. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA arrangement which he had so well begun preparations ‘vere made to give hima warm reception. On the following even- iug Bruin appeared but this time he was not allowed to have his own way. Within a few feet of the door of the lumber camp Mr. E. G. Stehelin placed a bullet in his brain and ended the marauder’s career. The bear proved to be a fine large one and weighed about seven hundred pounds. Upon the recommendation of the Minister of Public Works of Ontario, the issuing of angling permits to the number of twenty in one year, free of charge to non-residents who are guests of the Pro- vince has been authorized. The cut of the hunting knife that accompanies this article represents a knife that if regularly made for the market would, in my opinion, often be chosen by the hunter in preference to many of the other types now offered. It is not my inten- tion to critize greatly other models of knives now made simply becaase I happen to favor the design of the one ‘shown but in my opinion the shortcomings of many of the knives now made can be attributed to the blades being too straight, often too thick and usually too narrow to best adapt them to the work they were designed for. The shape of the handles on some of the knives now offered I can hardly think of as being such as best fitting a man’s hand although many In the knife shown we have one with a wide, curved and thin blade—highly desirable and essential features in a hunting knife if itis to be of value in cutting meat, skinning an animal or for the thousand and one other purposes for which it will eventually be used. The handle also seems of the correct shape while the “thang” and ‘‘feel” of the knife in one’s 195 hands seems very near perfect. From the cutof the knife one might suppose that it was unnecessarily heavy, but such is not the case for the blade being thin (one-eighth of an inch at back with true taper to the keen edge) the knife weighsno more than many other knives of the same length (six inch) having often thicker blades. The Marble Safety Axe Company who kindly consented to make one of these knives for me, write reparding the pro- bability of manufacturing same for the market, as follows : “In order that we might be ina posi- tion to better decide in regard to manu- facturing and marketing a knife similar to the pattern submitted, it occured to us that we might obtain some advance information in regard to what the demand for this style of knife would be by having an article appear in several of the sport- ing magazines mentioning the fact that we would take up the manafacture and marketing of this knife providing suffi- cient advance orders could be obtained to warrant us in doing so. As acom- mercial proposition it would not pay us to produce the knives unless we could sell several thousand of them each year. ‘‘In case we should take up the manu- facture of this knife, we believe that we would be able to secure better results in the use of a neatly designed and engrav- ed hard rubber handle similar to the one used on one style of our Ideal Hunting kind of handle. By making use _ of this material handles of uniform shape and size would be assured as in the forming up of handles made from stag horn or cocobola. It is very seldom that any two handles are of the same shape. We are also finding it very hard to se- cure suitable stag horn for this class of work. It would also be our idea to make the knives with hilt, with half hilt and without hilt. The cost of sucha knife as this should not be over $2.50 to the consumer.” The excellence of the many desirable specialties made by the Marble Company for sportsmen is a guarantee that should they decide to add this knife to their present line it would be made by skilled workmen, from the best of material, cor- 196 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. rectly designed, and with a finish and temper never surpassed by any manu- facturer. From Mr. Marble’s letter it will be noticed that should they receive sufficient encouragement to justify them in placing the knife on the market they will make it with hilt, half hilt and without hilt, and as this has been the only feature on which I have heard of hunters differing—the shape of the blade and handle having met with the approval of all who have seen the few knives so far turned out— it may be stated that should the knife be made for the market the intending purchaser will be enabled to select a knife specially suited to his requirements. Those interested should write the Marble Safety Axe Company, Gladstone, ' Michigan at once. In closing it might be well for me to state that having one of these knives which will undoubtedly lasts a life time it makes little difference to me personally whether the knife is ever made for the market or not, but knowing that there are many others looking for just such a knife I would for their benefit like to see it manufactured. , Ashley A. Haines. - Mr. Edward Sturdy, a fisherman of great experience in England contributes the following formulas tothe. ‘‘Fishing Gazette” for computing the weight of fish when in good condition should the angler have mislaid or have forgotten his balances for weighing fish :— SALMON Lengths in weight in Length in ‘weight in inches pounds inches pounds S04) Fu here AR Ds Oe ee 11.574 4380. 22. 4. 34.082 RE ee ce ok Bees oe ee Sees [20010 445)... td. eee eee 36.516 Ey a Pry ch tm Boe We kie” 14046). 45.2. 5.00 Soe ee eee EES cE a eh ee eat to oh ee AP eh ee 15.504. AG... . 22.498 Goa ee 41.725 BA + 5s tain SE oS eR ae oe ee te ee 16.848 9 47... 6. chee eee 44.506 ET Rpt Me aie ere hee 18.379 2 48... 4-2 47.407 B36 nk cs ne wee tebe Oe ee 2 20.000 49%. oe Oo eee 87 yi Dine eda eee. 1 118 © DO Ap So ee 53.584 38 on Ow a SS Oe ot Po he 2B DOD OP oe Poe 56.864 BS oe a ee eae ies 25.428 , 52. nec. yeu tee ee 60.274 FT) RRL MTSE Man RA Sone eT We ae ha 217 4385 "53.5... cae ee ee 63.819 GUE fog et te oy Ree ne 99.544 54," eo ee 67.500 BO ee stoi patch ee a eH Sante ale, Bess 31.759 | BB): e271 Bele ee ol eee 71.320 TROUT weight weight inches Ibs. oz inches lbs. oz DEE ade teks Ch saab tote Cee eae 9 20 oo. 5: 0) ieee bed 3 i LO FO steers ere OA Ne (Sie) rem r y d AER ERE RAR TRAP ERE Loh. 3 i Te te ME Ido Ace. ee eee 12) 993)... 02. pa eee Bits 3 Ee eran WN Mina LE Se. 15) B40... Wags 3 VAs Peo es Ss BR 1 3) 20. cass. . bs ear LB. othe ie oe nee 19 960 eo On Fate 167 oho. eel Roe eee ens bhai GE eB liu | 17 eh Ys Se A ae Te Bie BB hPa ae 2 9 8 O9-'-- 2 Le 7 OPE eS A ee 6 cetimas 2°15 *800 62 2s ot he ee The measure should be taken from the snout to the middle rays of the tail fin. lt is recommended that the above be cut out and pasted in the anglers fl his hat. y book or in | RR“ and Gun and Motor Sports in Can- ada is the Official Organ of the Dominion of Canada Trap-shooting Association. All communications for this department should be addressed to W. A. Smith, Editor “The Trap” Kings- ville, Ont. ss hitene)}\ wraey, ees sews Vwws wwe ss bid -.* .* -.* ame o“* oe on“. os AARP RAPD www JR AP <{ RAS RAAAARAAAAARAAAA LARRN vwewes Tournament Dates July ist—St. Catharines. July 3 and 4—Thomasville, Georgia. Camadian shooters invited and will be made wel- come. August 5, 6, 7—Dominion of Canada Trap Shooting Association, Sherbrooke, Que. September, 9, 10, 11 and 12—Tournament of the Canadian Indians at Niagara-on-the- Lake. Stray Pellets We publish in this issue the portrgit of Geo. Beattie, Hamilton, Ont., who during the pres- ent season has been doing excellent work at the traps. Mr. Beattie has been known but a com- paratively short time as qa trap shooter, but has rapidly forged to the front. At present he is one of the youngest as well as one of the best shots in Hamilton Gun Club. Im 1906 he broke 371 out of 400 at the Canadian Indians tournament in Montreal and at the Dominion tournament the same year won high average the first day with 190 out of 200 in the regu- lar events, winning high average first day, and broke 49 out of 50 in the championship event, making , grand total of 239 out of 250 for the day. He won a Hollis gun, valued at $150 during the tournament with 59 out of 60. Last year he won > Lefever gun valued at $75 at the Dominion shoot in Toronto. This year he won the Queen’s Hotel Cup at Brampton with | won high average at cent. and at Toron- in the a straight score. He London on May 14th with 94 per was high man in the recent contest to, scoring a total of 5555 out of ‘600 three days or 923 per cent at what was con- sidered very hard target shooting. The last day he qroke 193 out of 200, winning out ov- er every contestant, amateur and professional. We have no doubt he will c're an excremeiy and got his share of the prizesin the various bird contest in Pmelard this orsnto > 2 * 2 Court Thompson, Hamilton, has entered the profassional ranks, as a U.M.C. amd Remine- ton Missionary. Court is one of the most gen- ial and popular men at the traps and is also ai clever exponent of the good aualitics of the scatter oun. This Comnany made no mistake in gathering him into the professional fold. > * * * Joe Jennings won the duck boat and de- coys offered by the National Gun Club. Toron- to, as first prize at their weekly shoot, by breaking q straight 25. + * * * Four Kingsville shooters on June 12th un- dertook to beat the best four scores of ten Harrow shooters on Harrow Club grounds. They made a slight mistake,—they should have stipulated for the worst four. The scores were: Kingsville—W. A. Smith 21, Dr. McKenzie 19, Theo Wigle 16, Thos. Pastorius 16. Harrow— T. Pastorius 18, E. Pastorius 23, O. M. Pastorius 18, Forest Pastorius 21, E. Ford PAALAARARAW~ 2A MQAERee nae wee eeeveev wee ee ae eee eee SETS SE SSS SSS ss Ves RAAAA ARA se RAR AD 2 wewesvevruus ~ os GEORGE BEATTIE, HAMILTON. ONT. Crack Canadian Trap Shooter. 19, C. H. Lioyd 16, J. Stocker 18, J. Ber- trand 14, A. C. Cunningham 16, R. Wright 13. This was the first of a number of inter- club shoots. The Next Time Your Gun Requires Doctoring THINK OF ALEX. JOHNSTON 494 Eastern Ave., TORONTO, ONT. Who has every facility for choke boring, restocking, browing and repairing guns. You can make no mistake in bringing or sending your gun to him. 8 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. THE SPORTSMEN OF CANADA USE SHELLS :-LOADED~ WITH DUPONT SMOKELESS Or “INFALLIBLE” SMOKELESS BECAUSE THESE POWDERS ARE REGULAR. AND’ RELIABLE. E. |. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER GO. Established 1802. WILMINGTON, DEL. Stratford Tournment. Mr. Holmes, Clinton Peay Pa eo 110 7 The tournament held by the Pastime Gun F.- Nash, Stratford ......... ...... 40 14 Club at Stratford, Ont., on Victoria Day was J- Aitcheson, Stratiord 150 120 a decided success. As previously announced the Mr. Johnston, Harriston ... £30 91 money prizes were entirely eliminated gt this C. Turnbull, Stratford 40 14 shoot and only articles of merchandise were ©. Hess, Stratford ......... ites 40 16 awarded as prizes. Some of these, however, J. Ross. Toronto... ............ 105 80 were very valuable, the Ithaca gun offered as J. Myers, Stratford ...... ...... 4 695 48 the premiier prize being alone worth a _ long D. Hay, Stratford ...... ............ 65 46 trip to compete for. The style of handicap a- ee dopted proved its success in distributing the Cutler Gun Club Scores favors and altogether the Stratford method of The following are the scores made by Cut= conducting a tournament is well ‘worthy of ler (Ont.) Gun Club during May. When it 1s imitation. J. Aitcheson, Stratford, was the considered that some of the members have only fortunate winner of the $70 Ithaca gun. for shot at the traps a few times the scores made, highest score in the 5ith event, with 23 out of particularly those of Messrs Gignac, Galar- 25, although Dr. Kay, Otterville, was close af- : Ss ter him with 22. K. C. Turnbull of the home ae as a ee club won high average with 132 out of 150, and qa number of valuable prizes including the Marlin rifle offered in event No. 7, most of his shooting being from 20 to 22 yards. B. W. Glover, London, won second average with 130 and got his share of hiis prizes in the various events. The scores:— Shot At. Broke K. C. Turnbull, Stratford ...... als 132 W. Boles, Stratford ...... “.2. 150 109 A. W. Fisher, Stratford 150 99 ¥. Miller, Stratford.. é ; 150 112 T. Savage, Stratford ; et Fa 125 3. Glover, London 150 130 2. Day, London 125 97 S. Webb, London 150 15 Dr. Kay, Otterville 150 11° Mr. Maynard, Woodstock ; 80 BG Mr. Partlo, Ingersoll Fictaate 150 115 Mr. Kerbyson, Ingersoll ; 150 13 Mr. Nichols, Ingersoll sg 150 109 GG... Dunk; “Foronto. -......°.. : 150 116 Mr. Marsh, Toronto ad 150 112 Mr. Beck, Brampton ............... 125 66 EXETER SHOOT: A Hot Squad ie) ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. FORSHOTGUNS ANDRIFLES 199 ae eee neau, McEwan, Turgeon and Latelle, are very good. We wish other North Ontario clubs would send in their scores, if for no ovuner pur- pose* than to show us they are still alive. The scores:— , 5 Shot At. Broke os VG EON Eo tt) Gauge ie 150 101 ERINEK Ase te tn ees. 200 108 Mivanipshones et 'l) see 004 ke. 175 81 TLE Bes OL i a 200 146 Beam chs oy Soe ei oe ese caceacse 175 64 Lipriiiert e's) cl ee gee. i ee 100 49 CEE eee ee ON BPN 200 152 Pitre omnes pe NE os oese oes th ve 200 126 et es tA Cee cess ta Se ecseccuce 200 123 RR Raghanti be Se Picco 200 108 Meviempnrreriee = qc fe Sec... 200 84 IDG aller Spa ee ee 50 7 IN Peli) ee ee 100 41 H. Galarneau 150 82 Hamilton Happenings The Hamilton Gun Club teld g practice shoot on Saturday afternoon, June 6th, Court Some members of the Brampton Gun Club. Thomson, professional, representing the U. M. C. company, was high average for the day, breaking 90 per cent. of the targets shot at. Scores :— Targets. 10 10 10 1015 25 Court Thomson ..... 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Equipped with the JONES ADJUST- ABLE HANDLE FASTENER, which keeps the handle always tight When your handle breaks you dont have to burn it out. “JUST TURN THE SCREW.” Price $2.50 with leather sheath You will never fully appreciate these sights until you have tried them in lights where all other sights would fail entirely. Our Specialties: The proper mounting and adjusting of sights on all firearms. ‘The altering and re-modelling of all. makes of Weight complete 1% to 2 lbs. 16, 18, 20, 22 or sights. 24 inch straight or curved handle. Also Camp Eye cups of every description made for all kinds Axes any weight and standard shape. of sights. Ask your dealer. If he cannot supply you SEND US HIS NAME and Hatchet will be sent you prepaid on receipt of price. DEPT. S. THE C.A.C. AXE COMPANY 85 Congress St., Boston, Mass. Mounting Telescopes, Cutting Off Barrels, ~En- graying Name Plates, Etc , Etc. SEND FOR CATALOG. 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Every subject mentioned below presents a new opportunity; every page tells you how to grasp it and profit by it. It is written so simply and clearly, ’ Get one now to use on your vacation. NO. 602 “ULERY” POCKET KNIFE TOOL KIT. - Made in America Every one has use tora Kuite, Reamer, File, Saw, Chiselor screw Driver. ‘Lhis outfit is practical, yet so small, being contained ina LeatherPocket Book 4% x 3% inches, is, by carrying it in your pocket, always at hand for immediate use. whether Camping, Boat- ing, Teaming, Driving, in the Shop, Factory, Office, Store, Warehouse, Automo- bile, on the Farm, Bicycle, or around the Home. Any Tool firmly attached or detached to the Pocket Knife in a second. mI Sent Post Paid on receipt of price $2.25. Use it five days and if not satisfactory return it and we will refund your money. U. J. ULERY CO., N7 Warren St., New York, N. Y. Times TUeeeae — EXTENDED GEIB = =!” —— —— 3 — 25 ' Highest award at St. Louis World’s Fair. 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Some of the Subjects Treated Electric Wiring—Hlectric Bell Wiring—Electric Tele- graph—Wireless Telegraphy—Telautograph—Theory, Calculation, Design and Construction of Generators and Motors—Types of Dynamos and Motors—Elevators — Direct Current Motors—Direct-Driven Machine Shop Tools—Electric Lighting—Electric Railways—Alter- nating Current Motors, etc.—Single Phase Electric Railway—Electric Welding—Mercury Vapor Converter —Management of Dynamos and Motors—Power Sta- tions- Central Station Engineering—Central Station Design-—Storage Batteries—Power Transmission—Al- ternating Current Machinery—Synchronous Motor, Induction Motor, Transformer, Rotary Converter, Fre- ‘J quency Changer, etc.—Telephony—Automatic Tele- phone—Wireless Telephony—Telephone {Linejf Protec- tion—Telegraphone, etc. AMERICAN SCHOOL of CORRESPONDENCE Div. 187, CHICAGO Pe COUPON Clip and Mail Today............ American School of Correspondence. Roi and Gun 7-18 Please send Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity for FREE examination I will send $2 00 within five days and $2 00 a month until | have paid $18 00, otherwise I will notify you to send for the books Meee MMR SDSL Pu oe: sew sncciatene sa de tw get th san cecce csvacsescchecceseuncress TDP 22) 6S SSeS RRB Ree eV en rr OCEVRATION ||. Wy... ..: eC E EN 9, Jones sake vacesas ci ccaskeekitns See PO UNE, 5 OMe TDG encod hs ak this an couch eccvesecetegdesactuecs la ala al alla arn ner Den ee a TT TTT TITTY N Tapers ot . Write for circulars. J. W. REYNOLDS, Mfr., 68 S. Morgan St., Chicago. Sold in | Canada by Sporting Goods Dealers. WHEN SNAGGED don’t pull,break and lose sev- eral feet of line, or poke around in water and alarm the fish. Carry a “SNACCED” MOUK RELEASER in your pocket. It quickly re- leases snagged hooks, saves line and does not frighten the fish. Slips on without remov- ing line from rod, slides down line tosnag and releases hook by Automatic operation of plunger. If your dealer can’t supply you, we will, by mail postpaid on receipt of price. Price: Trout & Bass Size 25c “* Pike, Pickerel & Muscal- longe, 35c, Dept. H. (Patent Applied for) IMMELL MFG CO., 8yis* Complete Outfit $42.50 Engine only $33. 4-cycle Reversible This high power 4-cycle motor with batteries. coil, shaft, propeller, tanks and muffler, tested ready to install in skiff or launch. Weight 100lbs. Bore33-4in. Stroke 4in. 13-4h. p. actual. Ialso build 2 and 3 cylinder and stationary motors. Walter E. Dunn, Ogdensburg, N. Y Indian Girl Canoes Are Easily Carried Your summer vacation will not be complete without one of them. The greatest bargain in canoes. Special discount for shipment into Canada. Ask for our ‘‘INDIAN GIRL” catalog. We issue a special catalog on all-wood row- boats and canoes, sails, etc. : J. H. RUSHTON, Inc., 603 Water St., Canton,. N. Y, , See Our List of Premiums for (f Sportsmen in this issue When writing Advertisers kindly mention ‘‘Rod and Gun and Motor Spor ts in Canada.’’ Premiums for Sportsmen To all our subscribers, young and old, these premium offers are open. Our premiums, comprising practically everything in the sporting goods line, from a fish hook to an automobile, can be obtained FREE by securing subscriptions to the magazine. ‘There are thousands of sportsmen who have never seen ROD AND _ GUN who would willingly subscribe if they were shown a copy. If you see what you want in the following list, write and we will tell you how many subscriptions it will be necessary to secure in order to earn it. We will fur- nish sample copies for canvassing purposes and do all in our power to assist in mak- ing your canvassing campaign a success. Write to-day for particulars to Premium Dept.. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA, Woodstock, Ont. _ No premium is given on the subscription a man sends in himself. No prem- ium is given for a renewal subscription. For One Subscription | For Two Subscriptions | We will send : We will send: A Marble’s Safety Saw, A Shield Brand Pipe; | (Folds like a carver) ; a Sta-Rite Spark A McCurdy Frog Harness Hook | Plug manufactured by the R. E. Hardy manufactured by B. F. McCurdy, Chi- | Co., New York. Every Motor Boat cago; owner is interested in these plugs. We A Pflueger single action Flush Han- | haveonly a limited number to distribute) dle Reel— jo yards, polished nickel, An Elite Single Minnow Pail, (8 Plate-Pillar, 1 inch; dish, 2 inches; | quart) ; A Pfleuger Phantom spinner—a kill- A copy of the complete Sportsman’s ing combination for all game fish, | Guide fe Bie apott: : painted true to life, non-luminous; a luminous one for two subscriptions; A Pflueger round wide pattern eae | le reel, capacity forty or sixty yards, : os Bacere Tae sliding clock and drag, A EORY of Canadian Wilds; tells about lished nickel plate; _ the Hudson’s Bay Company, Northern oe Kelso Pearl Spoon bait manufac- | Indians and their modes of Hunting, tured by H. J. Frost & Co., 90 Cham- | Trapping, etc. bers Street, New York. _ Accopy of Steel Traps; describes the A Sullivan Hook and Reel Guard curious makes and tells how touse them, manufactured by Chas. L. Sullivan, 617 also chapters on care of pelts: Railway Exchange Bldg., Chicago. ’ F eon Call, Mei fantared by Chas. E 7 She a Amateur Trainer, by FF. ein; H. Perdew, Sr., Henry, Ill., made from Red Cedar, with German Silver Reed and A copy of Practical Dog Education by Band, handsomely polished. Guaranteed | Abbott; . to give satisfaction. _ or A copy of F ox Trapping, a book of A 60 yard Fishing Reel, burnished ; instruction, telling how to trap, snare A quart tin of ‘‘Standard” Dog Wash poison, shoot, a valuable book for trap manufactured by the West Chemical pers; Acopy of Mink Trapping, a book Co., 17 Queen St., East, Toronto. instruction giving many methods of trap- (Sent to any address in Canada) ping, a valuable book for trappers. A Matchless Cigar Lighter. Lights (We will senda copy of each of these cigar, cigarette and pipe anywhere at books for four subscriptions. ) These any time—in wind, rain or snow; books are edited by A. R. Harding, or a Waterproof Matchbox. nicely illustrated and contain 200 pages. A copy of Deadfalls and Snares; a bock of instruction for Trappers about these and other home-made Traps; When writing Advertisers kindly | mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada’”* 52 A Stag Brand Landing Ring manu- factured by Allcock, Laight & West- wood, Toronto; A K. W. Spark Plug made by K, W. Ignition Co., Cleveland, Ohio; A Kent Double Spinner bass bait made by Samuel H. Friend, Kent, Ohio: A Gem Carlton Reel; Anti-Cussin Fish Hook Holder made by Sportsman’s Specialty Co., Chicago. The Anti-Cussin Hook Holder keeps hooks and snells in perfect order. A round Plate Nirkel and Rubber Clicd Reel mede by Wm. Mills & Son, New York. For Three Subscriptions. We will send : Three Crow Decoys, manufactured by Chas. H. Perdew, Sr., Henry, III. An Ever Ready Safety Razor and 12 blades, manufactured by the American Safety Razor Co., 299 Broadway, New York. This razor is valued at $1.25 and is guaranteed as good a shaver as any $5.00 razor made. Only a limited num- ber are being offered. See advertisement of American Safety Razor Co. for full description of the razor we are offering; One-half dozen stag Brand Rubber Frogs or Froggies. A Pfleuger’s Pearl Phantom Minnow made of genuine polished pearl, with best quality of hook, gut and gimp. An Ideal Carlton Reel, manufactured by Carlton Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y For Four Subscriptions. We will send : ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA ‘* A copy of Modern Sporting Gunnery. | One of the most able books ever pro- duced on technical gunnery. A box containing 25 Van Horne Cigars ; a very superior brand manufac- tured by Harris, Harkness Co., of Montreal ; A Marble Safety Spring and Lock Knife ; An 18x36 Dunnage Bag manufactured by John Leckie, Toronto. Fer Five Subscriptions, We will send : A ‘‘Napanoch” Tool Kit, consisting of knife, reamer, file, saw, chisel and screw driver, contained in a leather pocket book 44%x3¥% inches ; manufactured by U. J. Ulery Co., of New York ; A Marble. ‘‘Expert’’ Hunting Knife ; Or a Marble Special Hunting Knife. For Six Subscriptions We will send a Conklin Fountain. Pen. A Stag Brand Steel Rod; One dozen Stag Brand Rubber Frogs or Froggies; For Seven Subscriptions. We will send : A Bristol (No. 1, 2 cr 10) Steel Rod, with polished maple handle. A Younger Willow Chair, manufac- tured by W.W. Younger, Toronto, suit- | able for verandah or parlor. For Eight Subscriptions We will send : A Brass Hand Pump A No. 2 Brownie Camera, size 24%4x4Y% picture ; A box containing 50 Van Horne Cigars An acetylene lantern, mannfactured by American Acetylene Stove Co., Minneapolis, Minn. This lantern is adapted for all purposes and runs the % foot burner t2 hours full charge. For Ten Subscriptions. We will send : ' A Frost Improved Kelso Automatic Reel—capacity 100 yards ; A Hunter E-Z Apart Reel, full Ger- man Silver phospor bronze bearings ; A Stevens No. 16 Crackshot Riflle ; A Savage Junior 22 calibre single shot rifle ; A Younger Willow Chair, large size ; Or a box of Sweet Caporal Cigarettes, containing 50 packages. A Camera, size 3 1-2 by 31-2, manu- factured by Canadian Camera Co. | For Eleven Subscriptions We will send: ‘ A No. 2 Flexo Kodak, taking pic- ture 34%4 x 3% sold by Lee & Sargent, Montreal. For Twelve Subscriptions We will send: A Carlton Automatic Reel. A Steven’s Favorite No. 17 Rifle. One dozen Cleveland Battery Con- — nectors—only connector of its kind on When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun ‘and Motor Sports in Canada. J - ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA the market —indispensable boat and automobile owners. tration in Spark Plug Co. in this issue For Thirteen Subscriptions We will send: A Bait Casting Rod manufactured by to motor See illus- the Fischer & Tesch Mfg. Co. of Chicago, | _ A fine addition to any library. Ora Bristol Steel Bait Rod No. 23, 7 | Til. feet 3 inches long with celluloid wound handle. - For Fifteen Subscriptions We will send: A pair of ‘“‘Witch Elk’’ Hunting Boots, manufactured by Messrs. Witchell- Sheill Co., Detroit, Mich. A Korona Camera, famous for lens equipment and sound principles of con- | struction;manufactured by the Gundlach- Manhattan Optical Co. of Rochester, N. Y. Size 3%x-X. A fourteen inch Weedless Bronze Pro- _pellor mae by Michigan Wheel Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. For Twenty Subscriptions We will send: ¢ A Wipe or Contact Spark ‘‘Wizard”’ Magneto. Length, 10%, height 7, weight 12 lbs. cules Electric Co., 707 Langsdale Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. advertisement of Cleveland | 53 height, 8, weight 15 lbs. Manufactured by Hercules Electric Co., 707 Langsdale Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. For circulars, | etce., address the manufacturers; For Thirty Subscriptions | We will send ‘‘The Art and Literatnre } Manufactured by Her- | of Business” by Charles Austin Bates. Complete in six volumes bound in cloth. A white walled tent, size 91%4x9%, 7 oz. duck, manufactured by Robert So- per, Hamilton, Ont.~ Tent with fiy for forty-five subscriptions. For Fifty Subscriptions We will send: A Savage Featherweight Rifle, manu- factured by Savage Arms Co. ,Utica,N.Y. A White Wall, ten by twelve, best ten ounce duck tent, three foot wall, com- plete with pegs and poles, manufactured by Sonne Tent & Awning Co., Montreal. For Sixty Subscriptions We will send: ; A Bastien 16 ft. basswood canoe with two paddles each, painted vermillion red outside, blue inside, beam 31 inches —depth amidship 10 to 12 in.; weight 60 lbs. Manufactured by H. L. Bas- tien, Hamilton, Ont. A Ross 16 ft. basswood canoe with two | paddles, manufactured by Ross Canoe 'Co., Orillia, Ont. An Aluminum Camping Outfit suit-_ able for six persons, sold by Sonne Tent & Awning Co., Montreal. 500 Sovereign Loaded Shells, manu- factured by the Dominion Cartridge Co. Or a Century Camera, 4x5, including a double plate holder and sole leather carrying case. ; For Twenty-Four Subscriptions A Gun Cabinent made by G. S. Hud- son & Son, Ellisburg, N. Y. For Twenty-five Subscriptions A one-inch Marvel Carburetor mau- factured by Marvel Mfg. Co., Indian- apolis, Ind. A Carburetor that has proven itself to be a wonder and never fails to perform its duty at all times; A ‘‘Wizard” Tubular Magneto for Jump Spark, Marine or stationary en- gines. Equipped with patent Friction Drive, straight friction round or flat belt drive, as required. Length, 10%, When writing Advertisers kindly mention A 16 foot basswood canoe, with two paddles,manufactured by the Wm. Eng- lish Canoe Co., of Peterborough. For Eighty Subscribers A Peterboro Canoe, 16 ft. varnished basswood canoe with two paddles. Send to Peterboro Canoe Co., Peterboro for catalogue. A 1r1-foot ‘‘Regular’’ Folding Boat, manufactured by the Life Saving Fold- ing Canvas Boat Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. This boat is 34 in. beam, 11 in. deep, 18 in. at ends; with jointed oars or double paddles, carrying case, thwart seat and spreaders, air chambers and camp chair. Capacity, 500lbs. Weight, 45 lbs. Package is 4 ft-x 8 in.xio in. Send for catalogue. For Ninety Subscriptions We will send: A 1% Horse Power Perfection Marine Engine, complete with all accéssories. Rod and Gun and Motor Spor is in Canada.”’ : ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 54 Made by Caille Perfection Motor Co., | Capaciiy 7oo lbs. Package is 4 ft.x Detroit, Mich. This 1% H. P. Engine | 8x12 inches. is considered one of the finest engines of its size on the market. Or a sixteen foot Cedar Canvas cover- ed canoe manufactured by R. Chesnut & Sons, Fredericton, N. B. Send for catalogue describing this canoe. A 2 h.p. ‘‘Skidoo’’ Marine Engine, manufactured by Belle Isle Motor Co., Detroit, with full boat equipmen:. A 2 h.p. ‘‘Little Skipper’? Motor with boat equipment, manufactured by Gray- Hawley Mfg. Co., Detroit, Mich. A Dean 16 ft. cedar varnished canoe with two paddles. Send to Walter Dean, Toronto, for catalogue. For One Hundred Subscribers We will send : A Waterman Outboard Motor An 11-foot ‘‘Special’’ King Folding Canvas Boat, manufactured by the King Folding Canvas Boat Company, Muske- gon, Mich. This boat is 40-inch beam, 13 inches deep, 20 inches at ends, in- | cludes jointed oars, carry case, bottom | lining, thwart seat and folding seat with back and spreaders; weight 55 lbs. A Waterman Out-Board Motor; makes | a motor boat of any boat in five minu- tes. Write to Waterman Marine Motor Co., Detroit for catalogue. For One Aurdred and Fifty Subscriptions A Hildreth Two Horse Power Engine, complete ready to install in boat, manu- factured by Hildreth Mfg. Co., Lansing, Mich. For Two Hundred Subscriptions We will send a 2% h.p. 1908 model ~ engine, complete with propellor outfit, batteries, coil, switch, etc., manufactured by the Canadian Fairbanks Co., Montreal For Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Subscriptions We will send: A Palmer Marine Engine, including Bronze shaft, propellor, (reversing) Stuffing Box, full electrical equipment. For full particulars of engine send to Palmer Bros., Cos. Cob, Connecticut for catalogue mentioning this magazine. When writing advertisers kindly mention ROD & GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. / DO YOU WANT A Stevens’ Crack Shot Rifle? If so send TEN yearly subscriptions to Rop anp GUN AND Motor Sports IN one of these popular rifles. CANADA, Those who have used them say and we will send you they are worthy of their name, “CRACK-SHOT.” For further particulars address: W. J. TAYLOR, Publisher Woodstock, ° Ontario. When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.’ | For Sale, Want, and Exchange Depts. Advertisements will be in- serted in this Department at 2c. a word. Send Stamps with order. Copy should not be later | than the [5th of the month. SPORTSMEN—Send one dollar to W. J. Taylor, Woodstock, Ontario, for a Perdew Orow Call, made from red cedar, with Ger- man silver reed and band, handsomely polish- ed. Each one guaranteed to be perfect and give satisfaction. FOR SALE—E. grade Lefever gun, automatic ejector, new, special price, Box P. Rodand Gun, Toronto, Ont, FOR SALE—GREENER GU N—1ro gauge, for $75 Box P. Rod and Gun, Toronto, Ont. FOR SALE—A complete fyle of Rod and Gun fn Canada, opening with first issue June, 1899, eight volumes, all in good condition, $5.00 will buy the lot. Address Box C., ‘‘Rod and Gun in Canada,’’ Woodstock, Ont. FOR SALE—A Three Horse Power Gasoline Engine absolutely new, complete with boat equipment ready to install, reversible propeller, American manufacture. For particulars apply Walter Dean, Queen St. W. Toronto. FOR SALE —Sixteen foot, cedar, canvas covered canoe—specially suitable for cruising and hunting purposes. Absolutely new. Color green. For price, etc., address D. Pike Co., 128 King Street Bast, Toronto. FOR SAI.E—Canoe, sixteen footer, cedar canvas covered, new, suitable for cruising purposes. Address Box C, Rod and Gun Motor Sports in Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toronto, Ont. stf FOR SALE—Collie Dog, puppie, aged two months, pedigreed. Apply A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St. Toronto. _ FOR SALE—Mounted Buffalo Head in per- fect condition. Photos on application. Address, Box B., Rod and Gun, Woodstock, Ont. 11-3t THE BEST PLACE IN CANADA to spend the holidays is at Haney Harbor, among'the 30,000 Islands ofthe Georgian Bay; excellent fishing, boating and bathing ; mail twice daily. Black bass weighing over five pounds were caught herein 1907. Peasant Point Resort is the place to stay. Special rates for June and July. Write James Hewitt, Honey Harbor, via Mid- land. Ont. I-2t FOR SALE —Five Horse Power, four cycle, -Gasolene Engine, complete. Specially suitable for large slow speed boat. In excellent condi- tilom—never been used. A bargain. Apply at omce to A. Connor, Nicholls Bros., Lake St., Toronto. SO OEE ————_——————————— SEND 35 CENTS to A. H. Byrne, 414 Hur- on Street, Taronto, for q Sullivan Hook and Reel Guard. 12tf 5 Se SS = S FOR SALE—Five Horse Power, twin cylin- der, two cycle, two port, reversible, gasolene engine. Weight 165 lbs., bore 3} inches. stroke $4 imches. Diameter of fly wheel, 12 inches ; length of crankshaft, 24 inches; width of base, 9} inches; height of cylinder from centre of crankshaft, 13 -inch.; main bearings, 3 3-16 by 14 inches; speed, 250 to 1200 revolutions per minute, cuaranteed new. Apply H. T. Allsopp. 97 King St. E. Toronto DOMESTIC ICE MACHINE, makeit your- self, simple, cheap, practical, complete direc- tions, 50 cents. MAKE MISSION FURNITURE from blue sent for 50 printed designs, details, directions, Pittsburg, centsi No stamps.—The Farms Co., Pa.j) Ue 12 tf SECRETS FOR CATCHING Fisher, mink, wild cats, bears, muskrats, beavers, etc., in abundance. Secrets, fifty cents, silver.— John Kunzog, Warren, Pa. FOR SALE—Fifteen foot autoboat, two horse power engine; regular launch type—not a Mere rowboat with an engine stuck in it. Price one hundred.—E. W. Johnston, Jr., Bridge>urg, Ont. CHESAPEAKE RETRIEVER PUPS for sale out of registered dogs.—H. Knight, Pincher Creek, Alta. _ fe f CANOPMS—During this month new and sec- ond hand $8.00 to $18.00. Tenders and due boats $6.00 to $15.00. Small sail boats and power hulls below half price. Write at omce stating wants.—Standard Safety Razor Co., Quispamsis, N. B. FOR SALE—Seven H. P., single cylinder Oldsmo- bile Runabout with curved dash. Machine in first- class condition with new set oftires this Spring. Price $350 cash. J. W. Whealey, Box 204, Wooéstoek. FOR SALE—A fine Racine Boat Manufacturing Co's motor boat for salecheap. Never been in com- mission. Having no use for it will sell for half its value. Will be shipped directly from the factory to purchaser,and built according to his speeifications. Address Motor Boat—6o08 Mutual Savings Bank Bidg., San Francisco, Cal. FOR SALE—Fishing Reel, Automatic, -aluminum, new. Apply Box R. 117 Mail Building, Toronto, Ontario. stf TO SPORTSMEN —Perhaps you shave you your- self and yourrazor may not work to your satisfaction. We have just what you want. Our ‘‘Perfection” Razor Paste will put your razor in perfect shape. To introduce this article we will forward you a 25c cake on receipt of Ioc : not more than one cake sold toany person at this price. Canada Hone Company, Wawanesa, Manitoba. rtf. Engine, 12 h.p., hori- zontal opposed cylinder. with timer, pump, oiler, bore and _ stroke 54x44 inches; heicht 13% inches, diameter of fly wheel 20 inches : weicht, including f!- wheel, 325 pounds. A high grade engine. American make; new. Ap- ply mt once to Box ‘‘Twelve Horse’’ Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada Woodstock, Ontario. FOR SALE—Marine FOR SALE—Launch Hull, twenty-one footer, com- plete ready for engine, including brass railings, com- promise stern; a bargain. Box L. Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toronto, Ontario. set. 5 “FOR SALP—Gasoline engine, two _ horse power, complete with accessories. in A. 1. con- dition. Apply Box 1. Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toron- to. When writing Advertisers kindly mention ‘‘Rod and Gun and Motor Spor ts in Canada.’’ ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA FOR SALE—-ST"\', KAIT CASTING ROD— telescopic—American make. Apply Fenn & Co., 101 King St. W., Toronto. Att FOR SALE—Waterproofi Match Box— just the thing for campers, yachtsmen and motor- Allsopp, tp King St. t ists—sixty cents.—H. T. E., Toronto. FOR SALE—Steel Fishing Rod—g dandy, 56 FOR SALE—Greenhart Trout Rod and a Dagama Bass Rod—hoth beauties. For par- ticulars apply A. Fenn & Co., 101 King St. Ww. loronto. tf FOR SALE—Camera, new, size 63x54, lead- ing make. Apply H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St. E. Toronto. ai ee Ltr: 55> eee FOR SALE—Automatic Fishing Revi, a'um- inum. Apply H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St Is., Toronto. itf FOR SALE—Automobile, (Runabout,) brand new, a bargain. Address Box X, Rod and Gun, Woodstock. 1-1f SEND SIXTY CENTS to H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St. East, Toronto, for an Anti-Cussin Hook Holder— keeps hooks, and snells in perfect condition. FOR SALE—Camera 3% by 5%—leading make—A. I. Lens—double plate holder—apply A.H. Bryne, 414 Huron Street, Toronto. FOR SALE—Steel Boat—for Duck Hunting Pur- poses—full particulars from Warren & Ellis, 302 Yonge Street, Toronto. FOR SALE—Canoe—sixteen foot cedar—with two paddles—leading make. Apply at onceto A. Fenn & Co., ror King Street, West. Have alsoa sixteen foot painted basswood canoe to sell at an attractive price. OO SEND TWO DOLLARS and twenty-five cents to A. H- Bryre, 414. Huron Street, Toronto, fora Napa- noch Tool Kit. a EEEEEREREEE FOR SALE—Eleven foot folding canvas boat—lead- ing make—apply A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron Street, Toronto. BATTERIES for Auto and Motor Boat Ignition, try the new German Dry Cell, ‘‘Eclipse’’ will solve your ignition troubles. Set of six by express for $1.25. The Canadian Electric Novelty Co., 334 Spadina Ave.. Toronto, Ont. 12-tf SEND fifty-five cents to H. T. Allsopp, 97 King Street East, Toronto, fora McCurdy Frog Harness Hook. 12-tf SEND fifty-five cents to A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron Street, Toronto, for a U.B. Live Frog Harness—double hook. 12-t f FOR SALE—Sixteen foot, cedar canoe; lead- ing make, new. Apply for particulars, Trunk and Leather Goods Co., 97 Kine Street East, Toronto. 12tf FOR SALE—CANOE-—sixteen footer, baswood, including two paddles, painted red,new, a dandy,apply at once to A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toronto, Ont Also a motor boat, eighteen footer, with two horse power engine. FOR SALE—12 gauge Remington gun with solid leather case, $40.00; asnap. Box P. Rod and Gun, Toronto, Ont. FOR SALE—A three horse power double cwlinder, gasolene engine, complete, ready to install, absolutely new. A leading make. Gr* particulars now. Apply A. Connor, Nicholls Bros., Lake Street, Toronto. FOR SALE—Twenty One Foot Motor Boat Hull— rempromise stern—brass railings fore and aft—al ready for engine—can be seen at warehouse Trunk & Leather Goods Co., 97 King Street East, Toronto. Apply for particulars and price. FOR SALE —Tent, twelve by fourteen, ten ounce duck, white walled, including pegs and poles, new. Apply Trunk and Leather Cone 124t Co., 97 King Street East, Toronto. also steel bait casting rod. Apply H. sopp, 97 King St., E., Toronto. FOR SALE—A dandy Troll—A.B. patent — fity cents.—H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St. E. To- ronto. 1tt FOR SALE—T'wo Magnetos, one for jump spark, single cylinder engine, length 104 in., Height 8 in., weight 15 lbs., one for q two, three or four cylinder engine—stationary or ma- rine—for particulars apply A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toronto, Canada. — 1ti FOR SALE—A one and g halt p : t} Power - rine engine, with complete outfit—elevated rene er—950 revolutions per minute. Apply at once to. H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St. E., Toronto. 1tf TT Alls 1ti _FOR SALE—A Meek Improved Blue Gr Simplex Reel, made of brass and n Pie ver. Abeauty. New. Sell cheap. Box Warren & Ellis, 302 Yonge St. Toronto. AMONG THE 30,000 ISLANDS OF y GEORGIAN BAY.Building lots for sale Pat Honey Harbor, each containing from one to four acres. Honey Harbor is only five hours ride from. Toronto; two lines of steamers from Midland or Penetanguishene; mail twice da) excellent fishing, boating and bathing. Prices of lots from $50 to $150. Honey Harbor is the ideal summer resort of Canada. Apply to Thomas A. Duff, 3 Maynard Ave., Toronto, Ontario. 12—3t ———— re TO RENT—Camp Cottages on the north shore of Lake Huron, near Desbarats, Address R. Shaughnesay, Desbarats, Ont. 12tf ‘ FOR SALE—Square stern row boat — ced- ar 17 footer — including two pairs oars and rudder. For full particulars apply H.T. Allsoop, 97 King St. E. Toronto. FOR SALE—Five Horse Power, Single Cyl- inder Marine Engine, complete with Float Feed Carburetor, boat equipment—cost $150.00. Will sell at a bargain. Apply to Francis U. Kahle, 299 Washington Street, Buffalo, N.Y. FOR SALE—2} H. P. $70.00, 4 H. P. $90, 6 H.P.$110.00. Also castings,complete launch engines, jump spark, or make and break. None better. Send for catalogue 1908.—Guarantee Motor Co., 67 Bay N., Hamilton, Canada. FOR SALE—Several Foldimg Canvas Fold- ing Boats, at a bargain, write for particulars to Box “Folding’’, Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toron- to. FOR SALE—CAMERA—3% x5% ,new double plate hold, excellent lens, Apply to C. M. Horner 32 Prospect St. Toronto/ Ont - FOR SALE—Steel Bait Casting Rod, new, a dandy. Apply Trunk and Leather Goods Co., 97 King street east, Toronto. 12tf . + FOR SALE—Three horse power engine, new; make and break sparking device, two cycle, American make. Apply Trunk and~ Leather Goods Co., 97 King Seb re East, Toronto. . ti : a ‘ Ont. - ST -.* 7 * x ; ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA an FOR SALE—A Mahogany Racing Canoe — fours—a beauty. Can be seen at 97 Kine St. Bast, Toronto. Apply ‘H. T. Allsopp. _ FOR SALE—New Wonder Flashlights, lon«~ Hfe—not a toy, but a necessity. Sent postpaid for $1.30 — only a few left.—H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St. west, Toronto. FOR SALE—Marine Engine, four horse pow- er, with complete boat equipment—aq dandy. Buy now, before it is too late. Apply H. T. Allsopp, 97 King St. E., Toronto. FOR SALE—Canoe, sixteen footer, cedar, with two paddles. A beauty. Apply at once to C. E. Stone, Michie & Co., King St. Wi, To- ronto. SEND SEVENTY FIVE CENTS to A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toronto, for a Kent Double Spinner Bass Bait. A dandy. FOR SALE—Carbureter, { inch., leading make—new. Apply at once to A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toronto. FREE—SAFETY RAZOR—Free. To advertise our. splendid Razors, we want every man and woman in Canada to buy ten shares in this company for $1.00 and receive by re- . turn mail our safety razor outfit, including ex- tra Dlades if you send names of five friends. You will buy mre shares when you find how well it pays. Spot cash salary to live agents, either sex. Get in at once.—Standard Saicty Razor Co., Quispamsis, N.B. of stock, | SEND ONE DOLLAR ior a set of 12 Cleve- land battery connectors. — A boon to motor boat owners.—Sample sent upon receipt of ten cents. You will become enthusiastic over this device.—A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toron- to, or Trunk and Leather Goods Co., 97 King St. East, Toronto. , 1ti : FOR_ SALE—A one inch Marvel Carbureter lor marine engine—a dandy—absolutely new. Ap- ply Box Carbureter’’ Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada., Woodstock, or to A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron street, Toronto, for fur- ther particulars. iti FOR SALE—Two carbureters, one especially adapted for three port, two cycle engine and also one for two port engine. Give bore and stroke of egine when writing for particulars to A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toronto, Canada, or to W. J. Taylor, Woodstock, Ontario. ltf FOR SALE—An Artz Folding Tonneau, suitable for Ford Model N. & R., or Cadillac Model A.B.C.E and K., or Franklin Model G., or Wayne Model D., or Mitchell Model ‘E.—Ap- Ply A. H. Byrne, 414 Huron St., Toronto. 1ti FOR SALE—Several two blade and three- blade bconze propeller wheels—new, also a number of weedless, speed propellers. State size required amd whether for right hand .or left hand engine. Apply Trunk and Leather Goods Co., 97 King St. East., Toronto. ROD AND GUN’S ADVERTISERS. Readers who fail to consult our advertising pages miss a large proportion of the most interésting matter in the Magazine. much from these announcements. They will find that they may learn ‘Every advertisement in ROD AND GUN comes from a responsible firm, and our readers may be assured of courteous answers to all inquiries and good value from all purchases made through these pages. Automobiles. @anada GrcleandyMotor Cone...) 22... 5-3. 4-5 35 Dayton Tonnéau Co... -:....... Pate Sidon ee Pee 31 Oldsmobile Co. of Canada Ltd.......... ...... 204 Animal Traps Oneida Community Co.......-..... RE ey pias 3 Revilen Brose. <2). Lk. eo ee ee 8 Ales and Beers inside back cover Labatt, John Automobile Accessories ENO be stg lek Orc ae re er ee 31 Papeete CaLDuUrete;%s.. ...0 2)... oe Mee = Dry Cells’ Electrical Specialties Ltd. . Dry Cells, Electric [pnition Co. ............. 32 Northwestern Storage Battery Co..... eee PDition Conse a Shae. sos 49-61 EAP MED ROALDUTELEI GOr oieiksitqnEee i. cei ees 60 16 - Never Miss Spark Plugs......... =. Vulcan Sparking Batteries—Vulcan Combination ; Sparking and Lighting System, Spark Plugs, Elbridge Ignition Dynamos, Spark Coils and French Accessories—Croftan Storage BaAtterye COne St Ad ohn ne ahem ote .) beac Gin ew rete oe woke 40 Gidley, H..E, &.Cd>.8. 292.55. eee : 36 iffe Fede Cos ao res ost eens a ee 16 Lakefield—Lakefield Building & Mfg.Co.. .. 4 ‘‘Peterborough’’—Peterborough Canoe Co., Ltd 18 Ross, JH, Canoe Conn seewce odeee es oem ae te Ii Rushton’ J 5 JEi 7 se on beara aoe a uses otegcteer 50 Revillon) Biosji: 22 htt ee 1 -e Moe tS aera oe 178 William’ English Canoé\Co. ers. curses te 8 Cooked Meats. Fearman’s English Breakfast Bacon, Sugar cured Hams, Cooked Meats—W_ F. Fear- Man. Yoh... een eee exp Ata TiO LSA 20 Camp Furniture Gold Medal Camp Furniture Co ..... ........ 5 Koiffe; EH. FliC@is ao /stecge acc ons ee erases excite ote 16 Michie 8&i@os she eh ctr ones sitet ce eniee 64 Revillon Bross... 3 5h lace een eee eee tee 178 Willow Chair—W. Younger................- 32 Clothing. Dr. Jaeger's’ Col 52423 eee ee Fe aoe Nae 186 Raine Coe 34 oo cee ee hain ae a ree ate ade £5 Cigars and Cigarettes Van Horne Cigars—Harris Harkness &Co.... 5 Decoys. Reynolds: JW. oF. sews taap area ee aS 50 Duck Boats Acme Folding. Boat; €oz.-2,. ssc: See see 40 King Folding Canvas Boat Co...........:.... 8 Revillon: Brosiy...1.00)- < sao eterna eee pre 170 Thompson, N. R........ NCTA Goch bs 28 Dogs Glover's Dog Remedies—H. Clay Glover ...... 17 West ChemicaliCo oo fi... ho ace eee 60 Furs Reyillonr ‘Bros.3.04, 205 oie ee ee eee 178 Fishing and Hunting Canadian ‘Northern Ry: i.:-. 25.6 soe sbe veneer 41 Temagami—O'Connor Steamboat and Hotel Ss RE RN it tn hh fe 12 AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. | *REvillonsBros:.. | i... 2... ss cae eee 178 Sullivan, Chas, Lii.%.2.i: .. neice eee 202 | Sportsman’s Specialty Coz... 2. 2 aei. apis 4 USB. Live Frog Harness. ..... . -ns eee 25 Fountain Pens. Conklin’ Self Filling”Pen.. . 6725.1... a) eee 182 Gun Cabinets. : Kiffe, JA: He Co ’ ...25s 2 cece cinis see 16 Gun Smith Johnston, Alex... 02). 2: isa piste dete iay telenase een 107 Gun Sights Lyman Combination Rear Sight — Lyman Gun _ Sight Corporation’: (20). )%. seston 3 Tv At; Watson-Creemore)i.4 net 56 Guns and Rifles Hunter Arms ,Co;; The 2i-ee ae eee see eee 46 Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Works.,...... 18 Ithaca Guns—Ithaca Gun Co... 5.5 052532... 184 Kiffe,,H. Hii) Cow... ages atleast peer "16 Lancaster, Chas;, Londons: o.). see nearer ene 202 Lefever Guns—Lefever Arms Co. ...... ...... - 29 Marlin Rifles—Marlin Firearms Co .... ...... 6 Parker Guns—Parker Bros ..............- 13 Ross,. Rifles" Ross’ Rifle Come aaeas coe ete 2 Revillon’ Bros). 72... 12 ee ieee ee 178 Stevens’ Rifles, Pistols, Shotguns, Rifle Tele- scopes. Guns, etc: + we eee Outside back cover Tobin Arms Mtg: Coles chet en sae en eee 45 Three Barrel Gun |(Coxo.p to. ee eee 200 | Adams Launch & Engine Mfg. Co.... | Buffalo—Buffalo Gasoline Motor Co. : Fishing Tackle Anpiers: Bait:osMigeiCo, 2)... ide tela eee 32 Allcock, Laight and Westwood Co...... ..... 12 Bristol Steel Fishing Rod—Horton Mfg. Co.... 203 Colher RubberGrip Co \. 3:1...) <4: fete eae 40 Corticelli Silk Fish Lines... -...0..t. | sasaeepe 29 BOWING EECA DI es, a. caves 2, toe) clewka cere 48 PIEMtenpMaSerul {poe CO! Ais pins «vereeeteee a ihdle gee 13 Harlow,G CACO) oie.) 7.0 «sas ottehlyes ieee 203 eal yy (= Ce Ute katt © ESR Ree Cio 22 FBreeport}Hook:Co... . 52). Slee ae 60 Hardy's Rods, Reels & aes Sor Bros.. 17 Hildebrandt, John J.<:,) =.) 2."ar ‘ “ 17 ImmeliMfp.. Casey... [2e 2) ..c'diee eis ail cee 50 McCurdy’ B. Fig... a. s peste 32 | Rods, Flies, and Lines—H. H. Kiffe & Co.... 16 Winchester —Winchester Repeating Arms Co... Inside front cover Hotels New Northern, Chicago-: ¢.¢) 3 -:aie-e eee 7 Queens—Toronto. 22. . Soc emcee eee 16 The Tuller, Detroit, W, A. Shaw, Manager .... 27 Thousand Island House, Alexandria Bay..... te ae Ke) Liquors. Club Cocktails—G. F Heublein & Bro. ........ 12 Labatt, John... ose Ses <1 acetone Inside back cover Michie.& Co., Ltd). 20.) 32... BEEEINTOLON: CO) ST oi. oe igclat coe Throw Your Batteries Away. 2°... belt and fasten and autos. ETS, ‘1.00, THE K-W. MAGNETO will start your engine easily without them and run it faster and better than any battery with more power and more miles per gallon of gasoline be- ‘cause it gives a hotter spark. They run in ball bearings and have no moving wires or brushes to wear out and give trouble. They are made to last and they do last. They are the cheapest that is good, and there is nothing better at’ any price. We also make Coils, Plugs and eight other models of Magnetos for both make and break and jump spark ignition, in belt, friction or gear drive, and the K-W Master Vib- rator. Our catalogue will interest you ; write for it to-day. THE K-W. IGNITION CO., Pipi pleas Manitoba Agents, Burridge-Cooper Co., Ltd., Winnipeg. “When “writing Advertisers kind|, mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.”’ 62 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Not a Cheap or Flimsey Motor But the Best and Most Substantial 3 Horse Power Motor Ever Built. It could not be made better if the selling price weredoubled. It comes to you fully guaranteed both as to material and- workmanship and running qualities. his is the sure-to-be satisfactory motor be- cause of its RELIABILITY and DEPENDABLENESS. A’ number of new features and decided improvementsover allother makes of motors including refine- ment of design, copper water jacket, our own exclusive float feed car- buretor, sight feed lubricator, double plunger pump, throwing | both bilge water and sea water into the copper water ‘jacket and efficiently cooling same. 3 H.P. Weight 50 lbs. Price $60- Write for Catalog. Canadian Supply Co., Agents for Ontario. Dinning & Eckenstein, Agents for Prov. Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. )\ Motor Co. |p Ai Detroit. Mich In ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA The Field It Covers The complete straight-line key-board, removable platen, per- fect alignment, delicate adjustment and wonderful durability of the are advantages so apparent and so vital to good work that they have carried the Smith Premier into every business center throughout the world. This world-wide appreciation of The Smith Premier should at least prompt you to investigate its features before you buy. We send full infor- mation on request. THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER CO. Syracuse, N. Y. Branches Everywhere. <8 NAS THE NATIONAL TYPEWRITER CO., Ltd. WESTERN ONTARIO REPRESENTATIVES 78 Victoria St., Toronto. BENSON, JOHNSTON CO., Stratford, Ont. When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.”’ 64 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. \ Decide next season to Camp and Fish in Ontario — This Beautiful district of Lakes and , Rivers invites you, and we attend to your camp requirements. We provide the Supplies, Provisions, Utensils, Angleworms, Ete, We rent you tents, help you select a route, supply a map or chart, and meet you at the Toronto Depot with the entire outfit all ready to accompany you. Being in our 73rd year in business as Grocers, ete., at our present © address, 7 King Street West, we know the requirements thoroughly. MICHIE & CO., LTD. Toronto, Canada. A complete little Campers Manual—1ao pages, illustrated Camping and Canoeing in Canada—15o pages, 42 half-tone illustrations, cloth cover; tells about 24 different routes The \@ Finest Scenic Niagara and To Fishing The Route Sea on the Contin y= nent ‘A MORNING’S CATCH” Write for Illustrated Guide Books to THOS. HENRY, Traffic Mgr., Montreal, Can. ie H. FOSTER CHAFFEE, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Toronto, Can. When writing Advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. Gold Silver en Cups, Medals, =the Committees will consider their own interests by writing us be- fore they make up their priz Mister fgres see see) Fees eae! | see JAS. D. BAILEY, Ltd. Jewelry Parlors 75 Yonge Street, Toronto. and service unexcelled in Canada. After June 18th Queen’s Royal Hotel, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. THE QUEEN’S ROYAL DELIGHTFULLY situated in a private park on the shore of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River. Thirty miles from Buffalo. Unequaled facilities for enjoyment of tennis, golf and lawn bowling. Fine roads, bathing, boating and black bass fishing. Casino and New Country Club. Cuisine Booklet and terms on application. WINNET & THOMPSON, Props. (LONDON) India Pale Ale Brewed from selected hops, choice barley, malt and pure spring water, Bottled at the brewery depots to ensure proper handling. That is why Labatt’s Ale is equal to the finest, surpassed by with the utmost care. none, though it cost consumers only about half as much as imported goods. Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario : Canada. Queen's Hotel, Toronto, Ont. ‘STEVENS RIFLES } TELESCOPES ALWAYS PROVE THEIR TITLE “The Bulls-Eye Kind” —, Lan ITE SEES, Mee eeepc cnemenpeseneeees tne Se = At the 1908 Annual Tournament of the Indoor .22 Caliber Rifle League of the United States.) STEVENS RIFLES AND TELESCOPES WON EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. ALL LEADING PRIZES were secured by the UNERRING STEVENS. One more notable STEVENS VICTORY added to the ever- lengthening chain. Ask your dealer for STEVENS ARMS AND Send 9 cents in stamps to cover postage on ACCESSORIES. lf you cannot obtain please let | FIREARM, TEI,ESCOPE and STEVENS-POPE us know. | CATALOGS | | | —— * es — — =: oe J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO. 365 MAIN STREET CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS., U.S.A. W