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Unionville, Ont., two to England and four to Prince Edward Island. We also 

 sold four young foxes. The amount realized by the Department at Toronto from 

 sale of furs and live animals was $5,959. 05. I have on hand at present 14 beaver, 

 130 mink, 19 marten, 7 fisher, 5 raccoon, 32 musk rat, 6 otter and 14 ermine 

 skins, and I hopje to have the best showing of furs at the coming spring sale yet 

 offered. 



"Wolves, I regret to say, are still very numerous and have already begun their 

 winter's work of destruction. I estimate we killed over one hundred of these 

 brutes during the past year, and nine have been brought in this winter already. 

 Our men are doing their utmost to rid the Park ol these pests. There is no 

 doubt a great many come in from Quebec during the winter, as there is such 

 an abundance of food to be found in the Park. 



Fishing during the past year has been good. Some fine specimens of the 

 true salmon introduced here three years ago have been taken. One sent to 

 Professor Prince of the Fisheries Department, Ottawa, measured 18 inches, and 

 was pronounced by him to be the best specimen they had received from any point 

 where these gamest of fish have been introduced. The Government last summer 

 put a quantity of salmon trout fry and small-mouthed bass into the lakes near 

 headquarters. We have here a splendid location for a good hatchery, and I should 

 like very much to see one established. We could not only keep our own stream 

 stocked, but could supply the rest of the Province as well. The first grand 

 prize for salmon trout in the two thousand dollar contest organized by Field and 

 Stream was awarded a Mr. G. W. Collier of Bordentown, N. J., for a salmon 

 trout caught in Lake of Two Rivers, Algonquin Park. It measured 30J^ inches. 



As a health resort and pleasure ground, the Park is now very popular; so 

 much so that the Grand Trunk people have doubled the capacity of the Highland 

 Inn and are building a series of camps at Smoke Lake and other points in the 

 Park, consisting of six cottages, a guide's house and eating house, with other 

 necessary buildings, with a view of making round trips from the hotel here 

 without taking tents, etc.; this at an approximate cost of $70,000.00. 



Not only is the Park popular as a summer resort, but is fast becoming 

 a winter resort also. People who visit it once in winter wish to come back; 

 there are at the Inn now over sixty guests and this will keep up all winter. The 

 hotel at Joe Lake is also well patronized during the summer months, but closed 

 in winter. We have three large camp's of schools. Miss Case on Cache Lake with 

 her school of fifty girls ; the Bordentown Military School at Lake of Two Rivers, 

 and the Long Trail Camp for boys on Joe Lake. The Y.M.C.A. also of Buffalo 

 send in a camp of young men each year. 



The amount collected here during the past year for licenses was $1,146, for 

 rents, $285.00, fines, $100.00; this does not include moneys paid direct to the 

 Department. 



Capercalzie. 



These birds introduced from Norway some years ago are not making the 

 showing. I had hoped. Several were seen during the past year, but from reliable 

 information I believe many went north of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In time 

 they may become numerous. They evidently seek the dense pine woods. 



Lumbering is still going on to a considerable extent in the Park, but the 

 firms of Brennen & iSons, A. Barnet & Co., J. D. Shier, Mickle, Dyment & Co., 



