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Wolves, I regret to say, are still very much in evidence and very bold, not- 

 withstanding the large number killed each winter by our rangers. Of course 

 the abundance of game in the Park is responsible for this. The wolf soon learns 

 where food is most easily obtained. The men get a bounty of $20.00 for each 

 wolf killed, the skins going to the Government and being worth as much or more 

 than the bounty paid. 



We took out the usual amount of fur this year, which was sold by tender 

 at the Parliament Buildings, bringing the substantial sum of $11,781.44. The 

 fur is taken out by our regular rangers, the only extra cost being for traps. Fishing 

 licenses were issued to the amount of $1,613.00, residents paying $3.00 and non- 

 residents $5.00. We also collected $30.00 for guide's licenses. This does not 

 include moneys paid direct to the Department. 



We have several large boys' school camps in the Park, where from thirty 

 to fifty boys spend a healthful and in all ways a beneficial holiday. At Cache 

 Lake we have a large girls' school camp under the able management of Miss 

 F. L. Case, of Eochester, N".Y. Here sixty girls spend the summer holidays under 

 careful teachers and are instructed in woodcraft, canoeing and swimming. The 

 entire camp this year consisted of seventy-five people. There are also a number 

 of cottages on this and Canoe Lake, held under a twenty-one year lease, paying 

 under the old regulations $7.50 per year, and under the new $10.00. The school 

 camps pay $75.00 a year.' The sum of $592.00 was collected here this year for 

 rents, the hotels and some others paying direct to the Department. During the 

 summer and fall hundreds of anglers and canoeing parties are scattered all over 

 the Park tenting and canoeing from lake to lake. 



Our staff consists of thirty-five men and superintendent and one housekeeper 

 at the rangers' quarters, whose husband takes care of the grounds, etc., at head- 

 quarters and helps the lineman keep the phone line in order. The duty of our 

 men during the trapping season is to patrol the beats under their charge in 

 order to prevent illegal trapping. In general, two rangers travel together, having 

 a stated section to look after in which they keep the portages cut out and the 

 shelter houses in order. These shelters are usually a day's journey apart, and 

 the practice is for the ranger to spend several days at each looking over adjacent 

 territory. We have built seven new shelters this year, one in each of the follow- 

 ing sections. Eagle Lake, South River, Opeongo, one near the boundary at 

 Aylwin Lake and three along the Canadian ISTorthern Eailway. All these are 

 good substantial buildings. Several of the other shelters have been re-roofed. 

 This work is done by the rangers during the summer months. 



1 am especially glad to report no damage from fire during the past year. 

 Several fires were started, but the rangers got them out before they had time to do 

 any damage. The tank car was not called out at all this season. The telephone 

 line was a great assistance to us in getting to fires promptly. 



A large quantity of wood for fuel was cut by the contractors and our staff 

 during the past season as follows: By contractor C. McConkey, 622 cords, all of 

 which is drawn out to the siding at Eainy Lake ready for shipment; by contractor 

 Tvol, 4,785 cords, all delivered at Potter Lake siding ready for shipment : by 

 Eandolph Macdonald Company, at Canoe Lake," 1.253 cords, drawn out to Canoe 

 Lake siding and 409 cords left in the woods to be drawn out during the winter 

 of 1920. Of the wood cut at this point, 15 cars have been shipped containing 

 2391/^ cords. At Source Lake siding (M.P. 306) the Macdonald Company has 

 drawn out 6,0161/2 cords and left 3,272^/2 cords in the woods yet to be drawn. 



