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near the boundary of the Township of Kineras, used by a lone trapper during 

 winter months, there are no records left of encampments. 



The country has been trapped overland from the Abitibi River during winter 

 and a trail has been followed east and west along the Kineras Boundary. 



A trail also runs west from Fisher Creek to connection with this boundary. 



As far as could be learned during the season's operations from people 

 experienced in the trapping game, our canoes were the first over the route beyond 

 the first portage and station 204. 



The dangers along this section of the river were so great that at the con- 

 clusion of the survey we chose to pack a canoe and most of our outfit westwards 

 across country to the Abitibi River, a distance of over ten miles, rather than 

 take canoes back along the route we had come. 



Appendix No. 29 



Extract from report of survey of Summer Resort Locations on One Sided Lake, 

 District of Rainy River, by D. J. Gillon, O.L.S., 1929. 



One Sided Lake is situated on the Kenora Highway about sixty miles from 

 Fort Frances, and about five miles from Nester's Falls on the Lake of the Woods. 

 It is, in calm weather, a clear water lake; but it is a shallow lake, and when the 

 wind blows the waves stir up the mud from the bottom and the water assumes 

 a brown tinge. It can only be called a jack fish lake, although there are some 

 pickerel to be caught. 



The lands bordering on the lake are eminently suitable for summer resort 

 purposes, particularly on the north side of the lake, where they are almost park- 

 like. Poplar, birch, spruce, and balsam, with some red, white and jack pine 

 growing on land rising from the lake with practically no brush. While behind 

 locations 30 to 44, there is a typical pinery, red and white pine, 65 to 70 years 

 old, growing on a carpet of pine needles with no underbrush. An ideal park. 



The shores are rocky with boulders and small sand beaches, part of the 

 land is rocky and part composed of top soil on boulders, but there are good 

 building sites on every lot and boat landings can easily be made. 



On the east shore there is much more high rocky land, unsuitable for resorts. 

 The west shore is also rocky and is covered with only a young growth of poplar 

 and jack pine. The south shore is all swamp, with the exception of Poplar Point, 

 which is a peninsula jutting out from the swamp. Resorts laid out on this point 

 are well treed with poplar 4 to 6 inches in diameter, with very little underbrush, 

 while on Lots 71, 72 and 73, there are the best sand beaches on the lake. 



The north-east end of the lake is a grassy bay with mud shores. 



Log River flows out of the north-west end of the lake, about three-quarters 

 of a mile north of Lot 1. The shores of this bay of the lake are all of very soft 

 mud so that although the land is quite suitable, no locations were laid out. 

 The entrance to Log River is in a large wild rice field, which in the fall forms 

 one of the best duck hunting grounds in the district. During the summer 

 season, moose and red deer are very plentiful and may be seen at any time 

 along the banks of this river, which is navigable for canoes, so that Nester's 

 Falls can be reached without any portage. 



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