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The Mount Julien Hotel, on the very shore of Stony Lake, for the especial 

 comfort of tourists and sportsmen, has accommodation for sixty guests, with every 

 luxury that could reasonably be loolvcd for in the backwoods of Canada. Terms 

 $3 per day, $10.50 per week. Sailboats, row boats, and canoes, guides and dogs 

 are always at hand. Go via Rochester, N. Y., to Charlotte on the New York 

 Central Railroad, thence by steamer to Port Hope, thence Midland Railway to 

 Lakefield where the steamer Chippewa is in waiting to convey you to Mt. Julien. 

 Time fi'om Charlotte, fourteen hours, fare $4. Fare from New York about %io 

 each way. 

 Prince lidivard Cownty— 



Long Point or Point Traverse^ on Lake Erie, is owned by an influential club 

 and has been known for years as one of the finest preserves and shooting grounds 

 in the country. Citizens of Canada and the United States are joint members. A 

 great deal of fur, as well as some game and fish is taken there annually, but the 

 duck shooting affords the sport par excellence. Reached by steamer from Mont- 

 real or Kingston to Pictou, thence seventeen miles drive. 



ltenfrc%i! Cownty — 



Pembroke^ on Alumette Lake. Excellent trout fishing with deer shooting in 

 the neighborhood. Take cars from Brockville on Grand Trunk Railway, to 

 Sand's Point, and thence steamer. Several hotels. 



Simcoc County — 



LaAe Sitncoe. One of the most famous black bass localities in the world is Lake 

 Simcoe, and its contiguous chain of lakes. It is only twenty-four hours from 

 New York City, via Niagara Falls and Toronto, and thence by the Northern 

 Railway of Canada to Harrie or Helle Ewart, at which places a steamboat con- 

 nects with the railway. This boat traverses Lake Simcoe thirty miles, and passes 

 by a connecting channel into Lake Coochachung, touching at Orillia, at which 

 place there is also a railway connection with Barrie. In other words, there is an 

 all rail route from New York to Orillia. From Coochachung is ten miles of staging 

 to Muskoka Lake, one of the very finest bass lakes in the world, and there the 

 angler may take steamboat again, and traversing the lake, pass through a canal 

 and lock into Lake Rosseau. This whole region swarms with bass, and is well 

 worth a week's visit. Cost of a ten days' trip about $75. Excellent hotels at 

 Belle Ewart, Barrie and Orillia. Guides and boats can also be obtained at 

 Rama, an Indian village three miles above Orillia. 



Victoria County— 



Bobcaygeon. This is a good place for any sportsman desiring variety. In 

 May, June, and July, mascalonge can be caught in any quantities. They run 

 from five to twenty pounds, averaging about nine pouncls. Black bass are gamy 

 and large. Ducks, partridges and snipe are plenty. Deer abundant, and hounds 

 and starters can be found in the village. Haifa mile beyond Bobcaygeon, the 

 river enters Pigeon Lake, and from this place can be reached numerous others, 

 all well supplied with fish. At Bobcaygeon, good hotel board can be had at five 

 dollars per week. The best place is kept by John Simson, whose wife makes it a 

 place of home neatness. This place can be reached via the Midland Railroad to 

 Lindsay, thence by steamboat. There are no boats nor guides. The foot of 

 Pigeon Lake, at Little Bob River, is the place to fish. 



Gravenhurst. Rufl'ed grouse and deer. Go via rail to Orillia, thence by stage, 

 twenty-five miles. Hotels. 



Lindsey. Eight miles down the Scazag River, Sturgeon Bay, is a renowned 

 place for black bass, mascalonge and other fish. There is a good summer hotel. 



Cobqconk. Two miles distant from Coboconk are some excellent black bass 

 fishing pools. Big Turtle Lake has mascalonge fishing ; Moore's Lake, salmon and 

 mascalonge ; Gull Lake, salmon. In the fall good trolling between the island, and 

 in the vicinity is good deer shooting. Mountain Lake is well stocked with salmon 

 trout, reached from Gull River Bridge. Big Bush Kouk Lake is the receiving 

 basin of three chains of lakes, salmon and game in all the surrounding country, 

 Grass River and lake, Pine and Cranberry Lake, etc. Hall's Lake is the most 

 beautiful of the chain, and is in the centre of a grand game country. Take the 

 Toronto and Nipissing Railway to Coboconk. 



Vellington County — 



Gucl/>k. Fine bags of plover are made in the vicinity. Reached via the 

 Grand Trunk, or the Great Western Railroad. Hotels excellent. 



