96 KEPORT OF THE No^^ 



Game of all kinds is very abundant, and we expect a fine catch of furs during 

 the coming winter and spring. Deer and moose are also plentiful, the number 

 of the former taken out being from so small a section that it has had no etfect 

 whatever on the Park in general. 



We have collected in rents here, $467.50; for licenses, $780.00; and for 

 telephone, $70.43, making a total of $1,319.93. 



These amounts do not include moneys paid direct to Toronto for rents, etc. 



Yours very truly, 



G. W. Bartlett, 



Park Superintendent. 

 Honourable G. Howard Ferguson, 



Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix Xo. 2S. 



QuETico Provincial Park. 



Kawexe P.O., OxT., Oct. 31st, 1918, 

 Sir, 



I beg to submit my report for the fiscal year ending October 31st, as follows: 



I found it very hard to get suitable men for rangers, owing to the scarcity of 

 labour and the unusually high wages paid for lumbermen, rivermen, etc. 



During the season the fire-rangers on Quetico Park were a separate unit 

 from the Park-rangers inasmuch as they were under a chief fire-ranger. Two 

 small fires occurred during the season, oye on the island in Lake La Croix. It ran 

 over about 25 acres, but being a light surface fire did practically no damage. The 

 other occurred about the time of the Minnesota fire on Marion bay, Basswood lake, 

 but was confined to about eight acres covered with poplar, birch, etc. It seemed 

 indeed at that time that it might be very serious, as the smoke from the Minnesota 

 fires south and east of us was very dense. 



During the summer I had built at Eva lake a boat-house and also a shelter 

 for our waggon there. At headquarters I built a canoe shed of sided timber 14 by 

 22 ft. This affords ample shelter for canoes in winter and for sleighs, waggons, 

 etc., in summer. 



Repairs were made to huts on Lacroix and Basswood lakes. Owing to the 

 gradual decay of the dam on the '■ Dawson trail " at the outlet of Pickerel lake 

 built about fifty years ago, I found it necessary to build a dam on Deux Rivieres, 

 one of our main canoe routes, the water having become so low that it was nearly 

 impassable. I had a road cut over-land from headquarters to the southwest corner 

 of Eva lake, about 41^ miles distant, thus avoiding two small lakes which occasioned 

 us much trouble, as the ice used to become unsafe on them when still good on the 

 larger lakes. Many other trails, portages, and canoe routes were cut and improved. 



Game is very plentiful in the Park, red deer, partridge, and beaver particu- 

 larly having increased very rapidly. 



Th6 larger lakes in the Park abound in fish such as trout, pickerel, whitefisli 

 and pike, and in my opinion a considerable quantity of these might be taken without 

 any detriment to the lakes whatever, thus helping to relieve the food situation. 



