American Big Game in its Haunts 



we reach Trois Rivieres, west of which they be- 

 come more numerous. 



The region of the upper Ottawa and Lake Kip- 

 pewa has been in recent years the best moose coun- 

 try in the east. The moose from this district 

 average much heavier and handsomer antlers than 

 those of Maine and the Maritime Provinces. 

 However, the moose are now rapidly leaving this 

 country and pushing further north. Twenty-five 

 years ago they first appeared, coming from the 

 south, probably from the Muskoka Lake country, 

 into which they may have migrated in turn from 

 the Adirondacks. This northern movement has 

 been going on steadily within the personal knowl- 

 edge of the writer. Ten years ago the moose were 

 practically all south and east of Lake Kippewa, 

 now they are nearly all north of that lake, and ex- 

 tend nearly, if not quite, to the shores of James 

 Bay. How far to the west of that they have 

 spread we do not know ; but it is probable that they 

 are reoccupying the range lying between the shores 

 of Lake Superior and James Bay, which was 

 long abandoned. Northwest of Lake Superior, 

 throughout Manitoba and far to the north, is a 

 region heavily wooded and studded with lakes, 

 constituting a practically untouched moose country. 



No moose, of course, are found in the plains 

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