CHAPTER XVIII 

 1897-1904 



Visits Cape Breton, 1898 — Sable Island, 1899 — Interesting 

 Observations on the Vegetation of the Island — Begins 

 the Catalogue of Canadian Birds, Winter 1899-1900 — 

 Examination of Algonquin Park, Ont., 1900 — Studies 

 Flora from Niagara to Lake Erie, 1901 — Visits the 

 Klondike and Reports on the Agricultural Possibili- 

 ties of the District, 1902 — Interesting Observations 

 on the Climate of the Yukon — Spends the First Sum- 

 mer in Thirty Years in Ottawa and Vicinity, 1903 — 

 Remarks about Politicians — Another Visit to the 

 Rocky Mountains, 1904 — Laggan, Kicking Horse Lake, 

 Field, Emerald Lake — Collecting — Incidents. 



DURING the winter of 1897-98, our work went on as usual 

 and arrangements were made for the next season. Mr. 

 James McEvoy, one of the Geological Survey men, was 

 going to Tete Jaune Cache and was commissioned to examine the 

 mountains in that vicinity during the season. I immediately 

 arranged for William S. to go with him as Naturalist and, that 

 year, we obtained the first collections that had been made in that 

 vicinity since Drummond was there in 1826. While McEvoy and 

 his men were at work, pretty high up on the mountains, they came 

 across a grizzly bear with three cubs and, immediately, the old 

 bear ran away and the cubs took refuge in the rocks. William S. 

 shot one of the cubs and the men managed to get another one and 

 yet the old bear never came near them all the time that they were 

 killing the cubs and the poor things evidently cried for their 

 mother as they made a great uproar. I mention this as an in- 

 stance where a bear was known to desert her young, although it 

 had been said that they never do such a thing. 



I had decided to go to Cape Breton this season, 1898, and 

 took Mrs. Macoun and my youngest daughter along with me. 



