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the Hudson's Bay Co. put up notices where the Indians congregated around 

 the various posts in the summer, it might have some effect. These notices 

 should be printed in the Indian language, using the syllabic characters which 

 all these Indians read and understand. I would also suggest that an effort be 

 made to have the importance of this matter impressed upon the Indians by the 

 Indian Agent who goes into Lake St. Joseph to pay them their treaty money 

 every summer. If the chief of the band of Indians at Osnaburgh were appointed 

 a fire ranger at a very small salary, I firmly believe that a great improvement 

 would result. 



The country north of Lake St. Joseph does not appear to have been burned 

 over to nearly the same extent in recent years as that south of the lake, and 

 there is a large amount of pulpwood in this section of the country. North of 

 Lake St. Joseph the country is not so hilly. There are not nearly as many 

 rock exposures and muskeg areas are larger and more frequent. 



Regarding the geology of this section of the country, I have very little to 

 say. Dr. E. L. Bruce, professor of mineralogy at Queen's University, spent 

 the summer with several assistants making a geological survey of the country 

 adjacent to Lake St. Joseph, and his report, which will be made in the Depart- 

 ment of Mines, will give complete information as to the geology of this whole 

 region. 



J would merely say in this connection that on the south side of Lake St. 

 Joseph there are several large Keewatin areas which would appear to be well 

 worth prospecting. From a point about three miles east of the second meridian, 

 and extending as far east as the Indian Reserve south of Osnaburgh, there is a 

 very large area where local magnetic attraction is most pronounced. In many 

 places along the shore there are indications of iron ore. Along the third meri- 

 dian, particularly near the second mile, local attraction is very strong, and this 

 condition extends for a long distance both east and west of this line. Unfor- 

 tunately the portions of this territory that I was able to see, are covered with 

 a heavy growth of deep moss with muskeg in places, and there is very little 

 rock exposed.' All the indications point to the continuation easterly of the iron 

 range which exists in the westerly portion of Lake St. Joseph and which was 

 mentioned in the report of the survey of that portion of the lake in 1920. 



Lake St. Joseph is the predominating feature of the topography of this 

 section of the country. The shore line of this lake is very irregular, withfmany 

 deep bays and long points. There are numerous islands, ranging in size from 

 bare rocks to some of several hundred acres in extent. The largest island, 

 No. 606, has an area of 1,827 acres. The first island surveyed was numbered 

 472, the numbers being continued from the previous year, and the last one, 

 near Osnaburgh, was numbered 925. A detailed description of each of these 

 islands is given separately. The data given regarding the islands gives the 

 number of the island, the area, the nearest transit station, and the number of 

 the detail sheet on which the details of the survey of the island are shown. 



The shores of Lake St. Joseph are generally rocky and stony, but many 

 of the bays run back into fairly extensive marshes where the exact location of 

 the shore line is hard to determine with any degree of certainty. A peculiar 

 feature of the portion of Lake St. Joseph surveyed this season, is the large 

 number of stretches of almost straight shore, the shore consisting entirely of 

 boulders and the land behind being composed of boulders and gravel. This 

 was particularly noticeable for a few miles east and west of the third meridian 

 and on some of the large islands north of this section. 



There are very few streams of any size flowing into Lake St. Joseph from 



