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acres is a most entrancing spot. The red deer, Canada goose, wild turkey 

 and other forms of wild life, as well as a gorgeous array of domesticated pheasants, 

 delight the daily visitor. 



Those seeking the long, solitary canoe route retreats with abundance of 

 all forms of wild animal and game life, take to Quetico Park in the District of 

 Rainy River, on the Minnesota border. Here the game fish are found in copious 

 numbers and the densest stands of towering white pines. Lakes without number 

 beckon the health seeker, the summer traveller, the camper, the angler or the 

 hunter — Timagami in Nipissing, Ramsay in Sudbury, Remi in Cochrane, Lake 

 of the Woods in Kenora, and a host of others in the Districts of Algoma, Thunder 

 Bay, and Patricia. There is no portion of this continent so lavishly endowed 

 by N^ure for the satisfaction of human desires as Ontario, who with open 

 arms ever extends an invitation to all to enjoy its charms. (For tourist sales 

 see Appendix No. 12.) 



Reserved Areas 



Special consideration has been given to the necessity of centralizing settle- 

 ment and discouraging the practice of applying for farming areas in remote 

 sections and in zones more adapted to mining, forestry or other purposes. In- 

 tensive efforts are being directed along lines of actually segregating areas for 

 their exclusive retention for forest development. Many of the old areas in 

 certain parts opened years ago for farming, without any scientific or systematic 

 investigation to determine their potentialities, have been in whole or in part 

 acquired and abandoned. Isolated settlement throughout such areas is still, 

 under exacting conditions, being attempted, but the general results are not 

 encouraging. 



To attempt any system of transplanting indigent settlers to more pro- 

 ductive areas would incur problems difficult of solution, notwithstanding the 

 obvious justification of such action. Yet the importance of the subject war- 

 rants careful survey on the part of the Government with a view to providing 

 means of saving future generations from similar consequences. It may be 

 found necessary to acquire occupied pockets or isolated lots of semi-productive 

 land in townships more conducive to production of timber than farm wealth 

 and then hold such townships for the particular purpose of natural reforestation. 



It is worthy of note that sane measures have been adopted and wise prac- 

 tices followed for some time in the Department in dealing with requests for 

 locations in doubtful sections, and in this way the practical exemption of large 

 tracts of land from the operation of the Sale Regulations is made more easy. 

 Provision is being made for extending our line of inquiry and collating additional 

 data upon which reservations may be made and adequate restrictions fixed. 



Departmental officials in outlying sections and those through whom appeals 

 are so insistently presented for individual lots or for the opening of certain 

 areas generally conceded to be primarily unfit for agriculture, will be especially 

 asked to suppress local prejudices and visual ze the problem from a provincial 

 point of view. Much is heard during this great post-war reconstruction periodof 

 stabilizing the standard of currency in certain countries. No finer opportunity 

 of permanently stabilizing Ontario finances lies than in perpetuating her timber 

 wealth by rigidly enforcing the policy of retaining burnt-over and untillable 

 sections for rehabilitation by Nature and, where necessary, by artificial planting. 

 Hereafter greater consideration shall be given to the so-called wood lot applica- 

 tion, which is so often made apparently for the exclusive gradual use of the 



