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Appendix No. Jf2. 

 Algonquin Peovincial Park of Ontario. 



Honourable Sir, — I beg to hand you my twenty-second report on tlie 

 Algonquin Provincial Park for the fiscal year ending October 31st, 1930. 



Our staff has been composed of twenty-nine rangers and superintendent, 

 housekeeper for rangers' quarters, and caretaker, whose duty it is to keep the 

 grounds in order and the rangers' quarters. 



Eangers' Duties. 



The duty of our rangers during the trapping season is, of course, to see that 

 no illegal trapping is done within the Park boundaries, and, considering the vast 

 territory to cover, and the many means of entrance to watch, they have succeeded 



Headquarters — Algonquin Park. 



very well in doing so, although, no doubt, some lawbreakers have escaped. The 

 rangers have made during the year eight arrests, and succeeded in having imposed 

 fines to the amount of $325.00, in addition to $25.00 costs, the latter sum repre- 

 senting the amount paid to bring in the parties. Where no costs were imposed 

 the parties paid their way coming in. In every case their traps, etc., were con- 

 fiscated, especially in the case of one gang that had everything taken from them, 

 tents, blankets, rifles and provisions, one of the members being an old offender. 



In this connection I would recommend that all rangers be made Provincial 

 constables-, so that they could follow a man out beyond the Park, and make arrests. 

 Some of them were so made years ago. 



During the year when no trapping is going on our men patrol the Park, 

 cutting out portages, repairing shelter houses, and 'seeing that the Park regulation? 

 are carried out generally, pirticularly with regard to camp fires; and T am glad 

 to report that notwithstanding the hundred^ who spend the summer canoeing and 

 camping in the Park, we have had very little trouble along these lines. We find 



