12 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



The result of an effort to cope with the mosquitoes and black flies, by 

 treating the swamps and creeks in the immediate vicinity of Headquarters 

 and Cache Lake, which has the largest number of cottages, has proven very 

 satisfactory. 



In co-operation with the Dominion Geological Department a map is being 

 compiled which will contain information heretofore unobtainable, and will 

 actually show the exact locations of all lakes and rivers, as well as portages, 

 thereby correcting many errors in location which now exist. In addition to 

 being most invaluable with regard to locating fires, this new and accurate 

 map will be of great benefit to tourists and others, and it may include certain 

 portions beyond the park giving their relative location. 



The use of the aircraft operating in the Park has been amply justified 

 if for no other reason than in transporting persons who were ill, and in some 

 cases their doctors and nurses, to points where surgical attention could be 

 obtained. Five emergency trips of mercy of this nature were made during 

 the year. During the Winter the aeroplane was used in the detection of 

 poachers in the Park, whose locations following heavy falls of snow could not 

 otherwise have possibly been ascertained. The plane fully justified its func- 

 tion as a detector unit in fire patrol during the Summer. There was no fire 

 damage to any extent during the year. 



The wiles of the poacher are so varied as to be not only most interesting, 

 but very dangerous to fur life in the Park. One ingenious method was frus- 

 trated by a Park Ranger where a poacher, to prevent his tracks crossing the 

 Park boundary being detected, selected a place where the tree growth was 

 very heavy, climbed a tree some distance away from the path travelled by the 

 Ranger, and walking out on the long branches dropped down on the other side 

 of the path into a heavy underbrush where his tracks in the snow would not 

 ordinarily have been noticed. Dummy trap lines set for the purpose of keeping 

 a ranger in one spot, waiting for a trapper to return, is another of the methods 

 adopted by these experienced law breakers. 



The construction of the motor road by Relief labour from Dwight to 

 Park Headquarters, entering the Park at the Southwest corner paralleling 

 the North branch of the Muskoka River for a considerable distance, will 

 greatly improve transportation facilities in the most congested area of the 

 Park. The construction of this road commenced on October 16th, 1933 and 

 is being carried on as a Relief measure. 



Rondeau Park 



Interest in this Park, which is so readily reached from populous sections 

 of the Province and the international border, is keenly manifested by those 

 who realize the advantages of the outdoor and wild life atmosphere. 



Notwithstanding adverse economic conditions, the traffic into and through 

 the Park has been quite as active as last year, although the concession amuse- 

 ments were not so highly remunerative. 



No new equipment was purchased during the year except replacements 

 which were absolutely necessary. An additional parking area near the dock 

 and pavilion was levelled off, gravelled and fenced with parking poles. A 



