The Days of a Man 



D909 



Kenora 



Winnipeg 



The gold 

 eye 



summer. What in hell can we do with one sturgeon?" 

 Artificial hatching of these fishes has been found 

 impossible; they will not tolerate confinement, and 

 the eggs cannot be handled. 



At the outlet of Lake of the Woods lies the city 

 of Kenora, its charming "Indian name" being formed 

 from those of three component villages, Kewaydin, 

 Norman, and Rat Portage.^ Kenora is a brisk and 

 growing town, but I may be pardoned if I say that 

 nowhere else have I seen so much whisky-drinking by 

 reputable-looking young men. This is the outlying 

 western frontier settlement of the province, and it was 

 a blessing to Kenora when Ontario went dry. 



Our visit to Winnipeg, a vigorous, progressive city, 

 was instructive and delightful. I was much interested 

 in its promising newly established university, and 

 later regretted that I could not accept an invitation to 

 take part in its dedication exercises. Oflficial efforts 

 to prevent the development of slums caught my 

 attention. The province of Manitoba has a large 

 population from southeastern Europe, many of them 

 accustomed to wretched conditions. On the doors of 

 various houses into which poor people might drift was 

 the municipal sign, "Unfi.t for habitation." The 

 owners of such were thus compelled to restore, re- 

 place, or abandon them. 



In the Red River of the North, abundantly stocked 

 with fine fish, lives the "gold eye"-^ of the voyageurs, 

 a shad-like species with bright yellow eyes and very 

 delicious flesh, though practically unknown — cer- 

 tainly unappreciated — elsewhere. Lake Winnipeg 

 we found surprisingly large, bigger than Ontario, 



» About the rapids or " portage" at this point, muskrats were once abundant. 



'■' Amphiodon alosoides. 



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