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at the Poughkeepsie Collegiate School. The family returned to Canada when 

 he was about twelve years of age. 



Forty-three years ago he was appointed the representative, at Quebec, of 

 the Department of Marine and Fisheries of the Dominion of Canada. He has 

 written many articles on fishing and shooting, and is the author of a book of 

 travels in French, called "En Racontant." He has been several times appointed 

 a commissioner by the government, to inquire and report on the condition of the 

 fishermen on the Labrador Coast, and into the causes of wrecks and casualties 

 to the shipping. He has shot and fished over the coast of Labrador, below and 

 above Quebec, and on two occasions in Florida. He was the founder of the 

 Quebec Yacht Club, of which he is yet the honorary commodore, and also the 

 founder and president for many years of the well-known Tourilli Fish and Game 

 Club, Quebec. Mr. Gregory was one of the original stockholders and contrib- 

 utors to the Forest and Stream magazine, founded by Mr. Charles Hallock. 



In his official capacity he has had much to do with the reception of royalty 

 and other distinguished visitors to Canada, and has a fine collection of valuable 

 souvenirs from the present 'Duke of Argyll and Princess Louise, Lords Dufferin, 

 Lansdowne and Aberdeen, while governors of the country, also from the Duke 

 of Connaught, and recently a very valuable souvenir from His Imperial High- 

 ness, Prince Fushimi, of Japan, who landed in Quebec on his way to Japan from 

 England. 



Mr. Gregory was amongst the first named by King Edward for a companion- 

 ship of the Imperial Service Order, and received the badge and star which en- 

 titles him to attach the letters I. S. O. after his name. King George IV is at 

 the head of the Imperial Service Order. 



Mr. Gregory received a gold medal from the Commissioners of the Inter- 

 national Fisheries Exhibition in London in 1883, and a large reward from the 

 Canadian government for his services in connection with the preparation of the 

 valuable exhibits sent from the province of Quebec. Mr. Gregory possesses a 

 private collection of game birds, as well as sea birds, and also alligators and 

 other trophies of his expeditions in Florida, mostly shot and preserved by him- 

 self as an amateur taxidermist. We first met and cast our salmon lines on Jacquet 

 river in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1867. 



Going back no farther than forty-five years ago it is easy to remember that 

 mine was almost the only salmon rod upon the noble Restigouche, throughout its 

 majestic length of sixty-miles of superlative fishing grounds, a very different state 

 of things today, when its broad swims below the Metapedia confluence are 

 freckled with canoes of guides to club memberships at $1,000 apiece! For two 

 successive years in 1865-6 I had it entirely tc myself, barring one Captain Barnard 

 of H. M. S. "Barracouta," a practice ship, then off the coast, whose guns were 

 occupied in battering the romance out of the fantastic escarpments from Escuminac 

 to Tracadigash on Bay Chaleur, ranging chiefly from the Upsulquitch to old man 

 Merrill's, from Maine and up to Chane's at the mouth of Tom-Kedgewick's and one 

 delectable summer I made the acquaintance of John Mowat, the river guardian at 

 Dee Side. All was solitude between. Occasionally, as the years passed, a stray 

 rod would find its way to the river from some distant region and Aleck Shewan, 

 the pedagogue, got into the habit of coming down every season from Montreal and 

 is still teaching and fishing at the age of 84; and so is Hubert R. Ives, of the 

 Queens Iron foundry at 79. But there were no accommodations for kid-glove 

 anglers above Dan Yeaser's hostelry, where he and "Black Aleck," of blessed 



