Favorite Fish and Fishing 



In Old Quebec Arriving at that quaint and historic 



town, we obtained, with the help of the 

 American consul, Mr. Downes, a new bass- 

 wood canoe, built on the model of a birch 

 bark, about fifteen feet in length; this we 

 procured from an Indian tribe near the city. 

 Through our letter of introduction from 

 Mr. Light to Mr. Beemer, the contractor 

 of the Q. & L. St. John railway, w^e had no 

 difficulty in getting transportation for our 

 canoes and camp equipage to the Batiscan 

 River, w^hich w^as then the terminus of the 

 railway. Indeed, Mr. Beemer kindly went 

 with us to that point, to see that w^e were 

 started right on our exploration of the 

 Upper Batiscan. Our objective point w^as 

 Batiscan Lake, some ten miles as the crow 

 flies, but the distance by river unknown, for 

 Its upper waters had never been fished by 

 white men. A railroad survey party had 

 gone a short distance up the stream by land, 

 but beyond that It was a terra incognita to 

 the angler. I questioned an old French 

 trapper, w^ho told me that he had been to 

 the lake with sled and snowshoes In winter, 



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