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Mountain Reserve, and with a similar 

 fauna and flora. Its eastern end has 

 been set aside as a Game Preserve. 

 1000-2500 ft. 



Hudson Bay Junction^, on the C. N. R., 

 with Post Office and stores, is 3 mi. 

 distant by wagon,' (h), or (w). 



*Pasquia Hills. (A4.) 2592 sq. mi. 

 Similar in character to the last two 

 described. All three contain elevations 

 of land rising to approximately 2500 ft., 

 which with Riding Mountain and Turtle 

 Mountain in Manitoba, make up a range, 

 of which Pembina Mountain at the 

 boundary of Manitoba, Minnesota, and 

 North Dakota, is the southern member. 

 900-2500 ft. 



Hudson Bay Junction!, on the C. 

 N. R., with Post Office and stores, 

 is two mi. distant (h) or (w), over a 

 muskeg trail . 



*Manitou Lake. (B2.) 180 sq. mi. 

 On the western border of the Province, 

 south and west of the alkali lake of the 

 same name. It lies in the so-called 

 "park country" in which prairie and 

 aspen associations alternate. Coyote, 

 ground-squirrel, and crane, abound. 

 The Reserve contains many small 

 lakes, many without outlet. 2000 ft. 



Yonker, on the G. T. P., with Post 

 Office and stores, but no hotel, is one- 

 half mi. (a) from the Reserve . 



*Keppel. (B2.)** Some 85 sq. mi. 

 in three small patches of brush-covered 

 country in the prairies south of Battle- 

 ford. Hawks, ground-squirrel, and coy- 

 ote are plentiful. 1700 ft. 



Perduet, on the C. P. R., with Post 

 Office and stores, is seven miles (a) from 

 the Reserve. 



*The Pines. (B2.) 165 sq. mi. A 

 particularly interesting Reserve, being 

 readily accessible and on the * very 

 boundary between park country and 

 dense northern forest. It is heavily 

 forested on its northern parts with 

 spruce-aspen associations, while in the 

 southern portion aspen thickets alter- 

 nate with typical prairie grass-lands. 

 It touches both the north and south 

 branches of the Saskatchewan River, 



and contains numerous sloughs and 

 lakes. 1500 ft. 



Duck Laket, on the C. N. R, with 

 Post Office and stores, is 6 mi. (a). 



*Nisbet. (B2.) 150 sq. mi. A re- 

 serve of irregular outline, north of the 

 North Saskatchewan River at Prince 

 Albert, which is two miles distant by 

 auto. There is a good deal of spruce 

 bog, and the forest is extremely dense. 

 The winter wrens and Canada jay 

 ("whiskey jack") are common, and the 

 pine siskin, ruby-crowned kinglet and 

 olive-sided flycatcher are not rare. 



Prince Albert, which may be reached 

 by various branches of the C. N. R., 

 is one of the chief commercial centers 

 of the Province. 



*Steep Creek. (B2.) 7 sq. mi. A 

 spruce bog 16 mi. distant (a) east from 

 Prince Albert, and situated on the south 

 shore of the North Saskatchewan.! 



*Fort a la Corne. (A4, 1.) 506 sq. mi. 

 At the juncture of the two main branches 

 of the Saskatchewan, and lying chiefly 

 on the north shore. Not notably 

 different in character from the Nisbet 

 Reserve at Prince Albert. 1200 ft. 



(a), 30 mi. from Prince Albert, or 

 20 mi. from Kinistinot, on the C. N. R., 

 where there are stores and Post Office . 



*Big River. (A4.) 1250 sq. mi. A 

 large tract of densely forested land, with 

 much spruce-poplar vegetation, and a 

 good deal of large game, as well as 

 water-fowl in abundance. Some areas 

 have been forested, some have been 

 burned over, but much is still primitive. 

 1600 ft. 



Big Rivert, on the C. N. R., with 

 Post Office and stores, is one-half mi. 

 by road from the Reserve . 



*Sturgeon River. (A4.) 708 sq. mi. 

 A little-known tract, (a) by a 30-mi. 

 ride either from Prince Albert, or from 

 Canwoodi (C. N. R., Post Office, stores). 

 This Reserve is heavily forested and its 

 sand hills rise to a height of over 2300 ft. 

 The Sturgeon River is a tributary of the 

 North Saskatchewan. Waskesiu Lake, 

 in the northeast corner of the Reserve 

 is more than fifteen miles long, and is 



