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tourists, occasional canoeists and logging operators, scenting the readiness of 

 the plane as a detector, are more than ever on the qui vive and support the 

 staff's efforts in reducing the fire hazard and enforcing the regulations. Upon 

 the poachers the effect of the plane is expected to be quite salutary. The Super- 

 intendent is a skilled pilot and handles the controls himself, thus obviating the 

 expense of hiring a special officer for the purpose. The total hours flown were 

 over 307 and the general effectiveness of the service thus performed is readily 

 recorded by those who have had the opportunity of observing. 



The fishing licenses issued in the Park throughout the year numbered 

 1,275 and a perusal of the residence of each holder shews that of these 60 per 

 cent, were residents of Ontario, 13^2 per cent of Canada outside of Ontario, and 

 the rest, or nearly 40 per cent., of the United States. Nearly 50 per cent, of 

 those coming from the United States represented New York State, there being 

 representatives of no less than twenty other States of the Union. One European, 

 from Finland, enjoyed a summer's fishing. 



An intensive campaign by the staff resulted in the snaring or trapping of 

 115 wolves, discarded aeroplane cable having been successfully used. 



Studies on fish and game are being undertaken by the staff in collaboration 

 with the technical officers of the Game and Fisheries Department, and it is 

 hoped profit will result. 



Vigilant measures towards checking up poaching and illegal trapping are 

 being adopted, and notwithstanding the closest scrutiny of patrols several 

 poachers were during the year apprehended and fined under the Act, and had 

 their traps confiscated. The Park is recognized as a good breeding ground and 

 poachers are prepared to take their chances. Only by a continual checking and 

 systematic enforcement of the law can the Park be kept as the breeding and 

 feeding ground for the game animals and held as a real reservoir for the supply 

 of surrounding areas. 



QUETICO PARK 



This area is situate in Rainy River District on the International Border 

 opposite the State of Minnesota, and is more a virgin area probably than any 

 other section in Ontario. It abounds in wild life, possesses myriads of lakes 

 and connecting streams, affords incomparable canoe trips, and holds countless 

 attractions for the lover of nature in its wildest charm. 



Up until this year the Northern boundary was somewhat indeterminate, 

 as certain waterways never regularly traversed and laid down in detail were 

 supposed to be the governing line. Because of frequent incursions by trappers, 

 growing difficulties in enforcing the regulations, in the absence of a properly 

 defined line, readily recognized as a guiding one, and a desire to rehabilitate 

 the area lying immediately north of the waterways line, the Department, 

 believing it in the public interest, extended the line to the Canadian National 

 Railway — adding some four hundred square miles. Certain objections to this 

 extension have been urged, and investigations are being undertaken with a 

 view to determining whether or not any modification should be made. 



The staff consists of a Superintendent, nineteen rangers and a housekeeper. 

 In addition to the headquarters buildings there are 45 stop-over cabins. Nine 

 new ones were erected this year, four of which were built on the added area, 

 one on Cache River, one at McAree Lake, and the other three as replacements. 

 The feeling of the Park staff is that the enlargement of the area will be of general 

 advantage, although it does prevent a few trappers who formerly plied their 



