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making a total of $1,738,00. This does not include rents, etc., paid direct to 

 Toronto. 



1 have the honour to be. Honourable Sir, 



Yours very truly, 



G. W. Bartlett, 



Superintendent 



Appendix No. 25. 

 QuETico Pkovincial Park. 



QuETico Park, November 1, 1915. 

 To the Honourable, the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, Toronto. 



Honourable SiR;, — I beg to hand you my report on Quetico Provincial Park 

 for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1915. 



The Park staff during the past year has been composed of eleven rangers and 

 the superintendent. Two of my rangers have enlisted during the past season, one 

 of whom was severely wounded in the battle of Langemarck, in France. I also 

 had four fire-rangers on the Park during the past season. T find I will require 

 some extra men for next season, as the territory to be patrolled is too great for the 

 number of men now employed. 



The size or area of the sections or " beats " is determined by the ease with 

 which they can be travelled. In some cases in which long stretches of good 

 eanoeiiig and good portages can be had, the travelling may he done much more earAly 

 and in less time than in portions where the carries are long and rough and the 

 streams small and shallow. During the past season we cleared out many portages 

 and improved streams in various portions of the Park. Nine new shelter huts 

 were built during the summer, which will be of great benefit to my rangers during 

 the coming winter, saving them tlie trouble of portaging tents. 



We also improved two small buildings at old lumber camps which will be used 

 as shelter huts. One hut at the foot of Pickerel lake was slightly damaged by a 

 falling tree, but was soon repaired. During last winter I chained :^( me ])orti()ns of 

 the north boundary so as to determine the exact location of the outside mile limit 

 of the Park with a view tol prevent any hunting or trapping in that territory. 



I also chained the distance from the Park headquarters to Kawene station on 

 the Canadian Northern railway, and find iti to be almost eight miles. I intend, 

 when time permits, or by working at spare times during the fall and winter, to 

 cut out a saddle trail around the south and southwe^sterly shores of Eva Lake, some 

 twelve miles, so as to be in a position to reach the station and post office during the 

 • stormy period on the lakes, and especially during the freezing up time in the fall. 

 Eva lake is five miles long, and is often very difficult to cross on account of high 

 winds, sometimes impossible for days at a time. 



I built a good ice house at headquarters last winter and put in a supply of 

 ice, also erected a small hay shed, and now use the former shed for storing canoes 



6 L.M. 



