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Algonquin Park, Ontario, on the Canada Atlantic Railway, and 

 make an examination of the flora and fauna of the park. As 

 usual, I was accompanied by William S. and we made many trips 

 amongst the islands in the lakes and throughout the whole extent 

 of the park, and made large collections. These gave us a fairly 

 good idea of the flora and fauna in the wilder parts of Ontario. 

 Frequently, I made visits to Ottawa, thus breaking the tedium 

 of the summer and, for once, I enjoyed summer in and around 

 Ottawa. The usual work went on during the winter and there 

 were no events of importance that I can remember excepting the 

 usual preparation that went on constantly for future work. 



The season of 1901 was devoted to an examination of the 

 flora from Niagara along Lake Erie, and, in this, I got a good idea 

 of the southern flora of Ontario. If I am not mistaken, that was 

 the year of the Buffalo Exhibition and I took Mrs. Macoun, and 

 my youngest daughter, Nellie, for an outing and they boarded at 

 Niagara Falls and enjoyed themselves very much for nearly a month 

 while I was travelling up and down the country making collections. 

 After spending our time at Niagara, we moved west and had a 

 spell of awfully hot weather while we were living in Windsor and 

 it was so extremely warm that my daughter decided that it was 

 better to go to Ottawa as the heat there was not so great, while 

 Mrs. Macoun and I went up to Chatham and to Sarnia for the 

 remainder of the season. 



Many conflicting reports had been made about the Yukon 

 and Mr. Ogilvie, who was Governor, reported that the ground 

 was constantly frozen and Dr. Wm. Saunders issued a bulletin 

 in which he said that potatoes only grew there when they were 

 sheltered from the sun in the morning to allow a gradual thawing, 

 since frosts occasionally occurred during the summer. Dr. Bell, 

 at this time, was our Acting Director and, in conversation with 

 him, I said that I believed most of these reports were inaccurate 

 and that someone should be sent with authority to examine and 

 look into the whole matter. He then asked me why I did not go 

 myself and I said at once: "Yes, send me," and the matter was 

 decided immediately. It was late in June, 1902, when I started 

 for the Klondike and everything went well with me until I reached 



