Favorite Fish and Fishing 



in Old Quebec Arriving at that quaint and historic 

 town, we obtained, with the help of the 

 American consul, Mr. Downes, a new bass- 

 wood canoe, built on the model of a birch 

 bark, about fifteen feet in length; this we 

 procured from an Indian tribe near the city. 

 Through our letter of introduction from 

 Mr. Light to Mr. Beemer, the contractor 

 of the Q. & L. St. John railway, we had no 

 difficulty in getting transportation for our 

 canoes and camp equipage to the Batiscan 

 River, which was then the terminus of the 

 railway. Indeed, Mr. Beemer kindly went 

 with us to that point, to see that we were 

 started right on our exploration of the 

 Upper Batiscan. Our objective point was 

 Batiscan Lake, some ten miles as the crow 

 flies, but the distance by river unknown, for 

 its upper waters had never been fished by 

 white men. A railroad survey party had 

 gone a short distance up the stream by land, 

 but beyond that it was a terra incognita to 

 the angler. I questioned an old French 

 trapper, who told me that he had been to 

 the lake with sled and snowshoes in winter, 



