Bringing in Bodies to the Cemetery at Deadman's Point, near Porcupine. 



Other Forest Fires of the Summer of 1911. 



Tlio nwful forest fire at Porcupine, On- 

 tario, lias iiaturiillA' claimetl the most at- 

 tention anionj; all the forest fires of the 

 year. N(»t only in other jiarts of the Oo- 

 niinion of Canada, however, but in the I'n- 

 ite<l States and in some foreijfii eountri»»s 

 the season has been marked by larjje fires 

 and consequent destruction of life and 

 property. 



Nova Scotia. 



The province of Nova Scotia has suffer- 

 ed to an unusual extent during the past 

 summer. In addition to the severe con- 

 fla;;rations which occurred towards the 

 end of May last in Shelburne and Cum- 

 berland counties, a very severe fire raged 

 near Amherst during the first part of July, 

 originating near Kox River. This was 

 claimed to be of incendiary origin, the 

 fire having been set in three different 

 places and in parts of the forest not fre- 

 quented by sportsmen. By July 21st it 

 was estimated to have run over more than 

 (5,000 acres of the holdings of one com- 

 pany alone. 



British Columbia. 



About July 'JOth a fire raged near 

 Squamish, near Vancouver, the loss from 



which was reported to be half a million 

 dollars. A few days previous a serious 

 fire was reported a few miles east of Yale, 

 which proved troublesome, and also a fire 

 west of Lake Coquitlam. 



United States. 



In the state of Michigan, during the 

 early part of June, several towns were de- 

 stroyed, and the death list amounted to 

 seven. The middle of the month was also 

 marked l»y severe fires in the Moosehead 

 district, Maine. Thousands of acres of 

 Maine's finest timberlands were reported 

 to have been burnt over, with a loss of 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some 

 of these fires are said to have been caused 

 by lightning. 



Foreign. 



During May last immense forest fires 

 (M-curred on the island of Hokkaido (or 

 Yezo), Japan. A number of villages are 

 reporte«l to have been destroyed, and 

 many lives lost. The fire line was almost 

 sixty miles in length. 



Sweden also reports serious forest Hres 

 during the la.st of May, near Umea, in the 

 province of Vesterbotten. Some deaths 

 are reported. 



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