34 A FISHERMAN'S PARADISE 



visited the lovely lake next day, lunched on the 

 rock in front of our present house, and voted it 

 was the place to build. On our return home, a 

 company was formed, Senator George F. Edmunds 

 being the one who wrote our Constitution and By- 

 Laws, and I was instructed to buy the land and put 

 up a fisherman's house, which I did, at a cost of a 

 little more than one thousand dollars, and leased 

 from the Crown Land Office in Quebec, eight lakes, 

 at a rental of forty dollars per year. I engaged 

 Modiste as a guardian and put up a cabin for him, 

 built a barn and ice house, and he moved his family 

 there and commenced making the farm. I pur- 

 chased lot No. i, and later, as John wanted more 

 good farming land, I purchased lot No. 2, at thirty- 

 five cents per acre, under the "Homestead Law." 



A few years later, it was decided that we 

 wanted a house on Lake Saccacoma and I purchased 

 there three acres at the end of the road, and it was 

 named "Camp Henry." I wrote the members for a 

 donation and about five hundred was freely given, 

 and a board and frame house was erected, with a 

 house for John, and an ice house. In the meantime 

 we had purchased a few birch bark canoes. In 

 1890 our lease was renewed at a rental of sixty-five 

 dollars per year, for ten years, and in 1899, I made 

 a new lease for nine years for one-hundred and 

 twenty-five dollars per year, increasing the num- 

 ber of lakes to twenty. I was also instructed to take 

 out a hunting lease for one hundred square miles for 



