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Buildings 



There were two fish camps operating on the lake during the year. One on 

 Portage Bay operated by Stevenson and one operated by Ball on the south 

 shore of Temple Township. These fisheries are reported to be successful, much 

 fish being shipped to western points. 



An Indian graveyard is located near the outlet of Barren Brook on the 

 west shore of Osbourne Bay. The four graves had been recently replenished 

 with tobacco and matches by the Ojibways from the Reserve. 



There is also the grave of a child, Martin, on an island northeast of Muskeg 

 Bay. The father of the child kept a fox ranch there, but he abandoned the 

 occupation last year. 



Appendix No. 23 



Extract from report of traverse of Trout River and lake by C. R. Kenny^ 

 District of Kenora, Patricia portion. 



Trout River 



In connection with the hydraulic features of Trout River, upstream from 

 O.L.S. Dobie's post No. 50, the following information is from my traverse survey 

 as shown on sheet one. The starting point is at the foot of a rapid with a drop 

 of seventeen feet at high-water stage in a distance of twenty chains. Following 

 up stream from the head of this rapid northeasterly aboout three miles, there are 

 rapids and falls about twenty chains in length with a total drop of fifty-one feet 

 at high-water stage, this being distributed in a series of cascades, the river 

 dividing into two main channels with two islands each about fifteen chains in 

 length and six chains in width. There does not appear to be a possibility of 

 any economic power development here at reasonable cost. Up stream from this 

 again, about thirty chains, is a rapid with a drop of six feet distributed over a 

 distance of twenty chains. Above this the river has easy current for four and 

 one-half miles to a short rapid with a three-foot drop. From this again it is 

 about three and one-half miles to the junction of Woman Lake River. Three 

 miles north of this again is the junction of the Joyce River. The current through 

 this distance is moderate. About a mile above this junction there is a rapid ten 

 chains in length and having a fall of sixteen feet. Fifteen chains above this 

 rapid is one five chains in length with a drop of twenty feet. From here the river 

 is very crooked with east flow for a distance of about three and one-quarter miles 

 to a rapid and falls with a total drop of forty-four feet. There appears to be a 

 good location here for power development by a dam at the head and running a 

 penstock line parallel to the east of present river channel. Watershed area at 

 this point would be approximately 400 square miles. From the head of the last- 

 noted falls down stream to O.L.S. Dobie's post No. 50, the river has a total fall of 

 about 160 feet in a distance of about twenty miles. The river traverses through 

 banks of clay and sand with occasional outcroppings of rock, noticeable prin- 

 cipally at falls and rapids. 



From the junction of Woman Lake down stream the country adjacent to 

 Trout River and for miles about has been swept by fire and the timber destroyed, 

 which has since grown up with small poplar and birch. 



From the junction of Woman Lake River up stream to Little Trout Lake, 

 the timber consists chiefly of poplar to 12-inch, birch to 10-inch, spruce to 12- 

 inch, and balsam to 8-inch. 



