The Land of the Winaniske 



and these are in private hands. Settlement 

 and netting in the lake have had a great 

 effect, and the opening up of markets by 

 the railway will hasten the extinction of 

 this beautiful game fish. 



Until recently the Decharge could be 

 reached only by the way of Chicoutimi. 

 There the traveller had a choice of routes. 

 To the angler who finds more joy in the 

 haunts of fish than in fishing, the ascent 

 of the Saguenay by canoe is well worth 

 the time taken from his angling ; but the 

 man who dislikes rough water and rocky 

 portages must take a tedious drive of sixty 

 miles via Hebertville. Last year the com- 

 pletion of the Quebec and Lake St. John 

 Railway as far as the lake afforded a new 

 route, which we took, partly to see the 

 country and partly to make sure of being 

 on the water before the winanishe, which, 

 as becomes a fish peculiar to so French- 

 Canadian and devout a region, makes a 

 point to spend the national feast-day, St. 

 John the Baptist, with his expectant 

 friends ; or, failing to keep this tryst, that 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul, which for obvi- 

 ous reasons seems the more appropriate 

 time. 



Early on a mid -June morning if in- 

 deed in that latitude and season any hour 

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