ii6 THE SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE; 



which I have just described, in connection with the lands 

 about these lakes, is now going on in the adjacent terri- 

 tory, although I think the Canadian government -is giving 

 more assistance to these struggling pioneers. 



Assistance is afforded to the immigrants by the erection 

 of a house at various points along the canoe routes, where 

 provisions are stored, and where the weary traveller is 

 permitted to halt and refresh himself until able once more 

 to move forward. Important assistance is also afforded to 

 these early settlers by the government in the construction 

 of wagon roads, which open up the forest soon after the 

 advance of the pioneers, and the establishment of schools 

 and post-offices wherever demanded by the representative 

 heads of five families. It will thus be observed that the 

 pioneer has no just cause for complaint against the gov- 

 ernment at the present day. 



Having portrayed some of the stern realities of life in 

 these regions, we will now turn to a viore romantic occur- 

 rence, which we are informed was enacted on Lake Ros- 

 seau and other neio^'hborinor lakes durine the summer of 

 18S4. A young gentleman, the son of the pioneer whom I 

 met on the steamboat " Nippissing," had determined to take 

 to himself a wife. He had been employed several years 

 as a clerk in a banking-house at Toronto, and it was in 

 this city that he met the young lady whom he subsequently 

 married. In order that the marriage might be in keeping 

 with the honeymoon, it had been decided that it should be 

 celebrated on a orreen-clad island in the centre of Lake 

 Rosseau, — the same beautiful sheet of water near which 

 he made his first appearance, as an infant, to the great 



