1914-15 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. G5 



future the line may be completed to this point, thereby giving us connection with 

 the Bell Telephone Company and long distance. This would be of considerable 

 advantage to us and a boon to the visitors to the Park. A great deal of this con- 

 struction work has been done by the rangers. 



Six new shelters have been built, one at each of the following points: South 

 river on the western boundary, Mud lake. Harries lake. Crotch lake. Rock lake and 

 Grand lake. At the latter two points larger buildings have been put up with 

 three rooms and a storehouse, they being main points. Grand lake is in the new 

 section and on the line of the Canadian Northern Railway. Several of the old 

 shelters have been repaired, portages have been cleaned out and several new ones 

 cut. Wood and ice supply has also been looked after by the staff. These things 

 have been done during the season when no trapping is done. During the trapping 

 season the rangers travel their sections constantly. They go in pairs, each two 



Natural reproduction of white pine, Petawawa river, Algonquin Park. 



men having a regular beat which they are expected to patrol and keep in order,. 

 keo])ing portages clear and streams free from debris. Wolves are still numerous, 

 althougli tlie staff kill from sixty to a hundred every year. There is no doubt 

 these pests come in from the north as soon as the severe weather sets in, finding the 

 food much more plentiful in the Park than elsewhere. Our men kill many that 

 they do uv.t <ivt owing to snowfalls before they visit their baits. 



The squatters in the section recently added to the Park have been paid for 

 their improvements and h ive all moved out to other places. This section will soon 

 fill up with game of all kinds, it being a splendid locality for such. There is also 

 a vast quantity of young pine coming on in many parts, making it doubly im- 

 portant to protect this section from bush fires which have already done considerable 

 damage in parts of it. 



The Canadian Northern Railway have completed their line through the north 

 end of the Park and regular trains will shortly be running on it. This line 



