NATURAL AREAS AND REGIONS 



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Miner Game Preserve. (C4.) Con- 

 sists of farm of Mr. Jack Miner, Kings- 

 ville, Essex County, Ontario, 200 acres 

 and a surrounding protective zone of 

 approximately 2000 acres. Visited each 

 spring by about 4500 Canada geese 

 during migration, also about 500 pond 

 and river ducks, and several hundred 

 whistling swans. Cleared farm land 

 containing two large artificial ponds. 

 For study and photography of geese and 

 dqcks should be visited between April 

 10 and 25. Windsor, Essex and Lake 

 Shore Electric Railway from Windsor, 

 Ont. 



Pearsemarsh Bird Sanctuary. (C4.) 

 The farm of Miss Edith L. Marsh, situ- 

 ated on Georgian Bay in Grey County, 

 Ontario. Consists of about 300 acres 

 of upland with orchard, good arable 

 farmland and rough pasture, also some 

 areas of swamp and bush (birch, north- 

 ern white cedar, hemlock, etc.). Bird 

 and other wild life has been protected 

 for many years. 



*Timagami Forest Reserve. (Al.) 

 An area of about 6000 sq. mi. to the 

 west of lake Temiskaming and the upper 

 Montreal River in the Province of 

 Ontario. The most important single 

 feature is lake Timagami in the south- 

 ern part of the area. The lake (965 ft. 

 above sea level) is about 30 mi. long 

 from north to south and slightly less 

 from east to west. The whole area is 

 full of smaller lakes from 12 mi. in length 

 down. The timber is red and white pine, 

 spruce and balsam fir, with considerable 

 patches of poplar; tamarack is re- 

 establishing itself in places. Moose, 

 black bear, wolf, Virginia deer, beaver 

 are common; lake trout, speckled trout, 

 black bass, pike-perch and pike abound. 

 The reserve is most easily entered by 

 the lake since Timagami Station on the 

 Temiskaming and Northern Ontario 

 Railway (from Toronto) is at the head 

 of the northeastern arm of the lake. 

 There is a Hudson Bay Co. post on Bear 

 Island in the centre of lake Timagami, 

 as well as a small hotel and several 

 large permanent summer camps. Two 

 vessels run daily during the summer 

 from Timagami to the Post and the 

 camps. Supplies are obtainable either 

 at Timagami or the Post. Gowganda, 



a moribund mining centre lies in the 

 northern half of the reserve. 



*Sibley Reserve. (A4.) An area of 70 

 sq. mi. on the point of Thunder Cape, 

 Lake Superior. Preserved principally 

 to keep the promontory of Thunder 

 Cape covered with timber, typical 

 Laurentian plateau forest. (See Nipi- 

 gon Reserves.) ' 



*St. Lawrence Islands Park. (C3.) 

 Consists of 13 islands and one mainland 

 reservation, 140 acres in all, among the 

 Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence 

 river, equipped for use of summer 

 campers and visitors as places for out- 

 door recreation; more like town parks 

 than natural areas. 



*Broder Park. (O3.) 20 acres, an 

 island in the St. Lawrence river opposite 

 Morrisburg, near above park; well 

 wooded. Grand Trunk Railway from 

 Montreal or Toronto to Morrisburg. 



IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY 



C. D. Howe. Life Zones. The Natural 

 History of the Toronto Region, Ont., 

 Canada, the Canadian Institute, 

 Toronto, 1913. 



P. A. Taverner. Faunas of Canada in 

 the Canada Yearbook, 1915, has also 

 been drawn upon especially in con- 

 nection with bird lists. 



18. THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



BY GEO. D. FULLER AND BROTHER 



MARIE-VICTORIN 



I. GENERAL CONDITIONS 



/. Topography 



The province of Quebec comprises an 

 area of approximately 700,000 sq. mi. 

 extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 to Hudson Bay and James Bay. It lies 

 between 45 and 62 40' N and 57 and 

 79 30' W. Of its entire area 16,000 sq. 

 mi. are water comprising the surface of 

 numerous small lakes which form a 

 network through the northern part of 

 the province. 



The main physiographic divisions of 

 the province are the St. Lawrence plain 

 in the southwest, the Appalachian 

 highlands in the southeast, whose hills 



