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and that a suitable monument is erected in 

 Ottawa to perpetuate his memory. 



Frank Kibbee 



In my hunting excursion to northern British 

 Columbia in 1909, our head guide was a man 

 named Frank Kibbee. He was born in Mon- 

 tana forty-seven years ago. He early took to 

 trapping — his father was a trapper before him 

 — and he soon learned to shoot well and to 

 ride a horse fearlessly. 



Leaving his home he drifted to Bear Lake, 

 upper British Columbia, where he started 

 trapping. As Bear Lake is but twenty-two 

 miles across the mountains from Barkerville 

 — the largest gold-mining field in the Prov- 

 ince — his yearly catch of fur always brought 

 him good prices. Besides this he usually has 

 one or more hunting parties each season to 

 look after, so that he is prospering fairly well. 



Since I last saw him he had made up his 

 mind that he must get a wife and, as women 

 are very scarce in that section, it was hard to 

 find one. Hearing that advertising when 

 "properly" handled always brings results, he 

 thought he would try it. Kibbee is a man with 

 a good bit of humor, and he has an odd way 

 of saying things. He drafted his ^'ad" in his 



