A23237 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE ROYAL.CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
PALAEOZOIC FOSSILS FROM A REGION SOUTHWEST OF 
HUDSON BAY. 
A Descripiton of the Fossils collected by Joseph B. Tyrrell, Esq., F.R.S.C., 
in the Disirict of Pairicia, Ontario, and in Northern Manitoba ~ 
during the Summer of 1912. 
By WA. Parks, Pa WD.) FOR:S.C, 
(Associate Professor of Geology, University of Toronto.) 
By Act of Parliament of Canada in the year 1912, a portion of 
the old District of Keewatin, estimated at 157,400 square miles, was 
added to the Province of Ontario. In the same year appeared a com- 
pilation of the literature bearing on this region which was published 
as the Second Part of the Twenty-first Volume of the Report of the 
Bureau of Mines of Ontario. This report, written by Professor W. G. 
Miller, Provincial Geologist, gives an excellent summary of the work 
hitherto done in this area, which is now embraced in the Province of 
Ontario under the name of the District of Patricia. 
In April 1912, the Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and 
Mines of the Province of Ontario instructed Joseph B. Tyrrell, Esq., 
to perform certain duties regarding the details of boundary between 
the Provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and ‘‘finally to return home 
through that part of the District of Keewatin added by the Act of 
Parliament of last session to the Province of Ontario, and now known 
as the District of Patricia, obtaining such general information as to 
the character, resources and possibilities of this district as it might be 
possible to procure in the time available’’. , 
In the course of his investigations, Mr. Tyrrell collected a large 
number of fossils from the Silurian outcrops along the Severn river 
and its tributary the Fawn river. On the Manitoba side of the boun- 
dary, particularly at the lower rapids of the Shamattawa river, a number 
