306 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
Ministik Lake, twenty miles southeast of Edmonton, Al- 
berta (Plate XIX, 3). The country around this lake is well 
timbered and not much settled. The lake is surrounded 
by great beds of cattails, bulrushes, reeds, and sedge, and 
provides unlimited feeding-ground and shelter for wild fowl. 
Large numbers of ducks were seen on the lake at the time 
of my visit, and all reports were that it was a good lake for 
ducks. 
Lac la Biche, one hundred miles northeast of Edmonton, 
Alberta. My visit was too late in the season to tell much 
about the wild-fowl possibilities. So much of the lake shore 
is taken up, most of the south side by the “‘Lac la Biche 
Settlement”’ (Indians and half-breeds), and most of the north 
side of the lake patented, that little land except some on the 
east end of the lake is reserved. As a good deal of settle- 
ment is going up on the railroad along the east side of the 
lake (the Alberta & Great Waterways Railway), and, fur- 
thermore, as the lake is one of the large important commer- 
cial fishing-lakes of this district, it may not be worth while 
to keep land reserved on the shores of the lake. It will be 
a difficult matter to preserve the game locally, with large 
numbers of Indians, half-breeds, and fishermen working on 
the lake. For that reason the land on the shores may not 
be worth reserving as sanctuaries. There are several large » 
islands in the lake which might be reserved for future inves- 
tigation. It does not have a very good reputation as a 
wild-fowl lake. 
Pakowki Lake, forty-five miles south-southwest of Medi- 
cine Hat, Alberta. This lake was not visited, owing to the 
difficulty of access to it in a reasonable time. It is situated 
in a rather rough country, and, as it is the only large lake 
in that region, it is probably worth retaining as a wild-fowl 
sanctuary, for a resting-place during migrations if not as a 
breeding-place. 
