206 PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



Little Metes (Intercolonial.) Little Metes 5 m., Claude 110 m., St. Anne 115 

 m.; the last best; caribou at the two last and duck at Little Metis; Nov. for duck 

 and Dec. and Jan. for caribou; livery $3 p. d.; hotels $1 to $1.25 p. d.; guides (but 

 no dogs) reasonable; country wooded hilly and generally dry; hunting good and 

 land owners do not object. 



Perci Rock (Q. S. S. Co.) Perci Rock, Bonaventure Island and country adja- 

 cent; the island is best; snipe, partridge, duck, geese and brant; Sept. and Oct. 

 best; boarding houses $1 to $1.50 p. d.; guides $2 p. d.: country rocky, hilly and 

 wooded; shooting excellent; land owners do not object. 



Poiute an Chene (Can. P.) Country adjacent contains partridge, duck, bear, 

 deer and fox; the last most numerous; Sept. to Oct. best; livery $2 to $3 p. d.; ho- 

 tel $1 p. d.; guides $1 p. d.; country wooded and hilly and contains a number of 

 small lakes; shooting good; farmers do not object. 



marshy; shooting good and farmers do not object. 



St. Anne (Can. P.) Lower St. Anne's 4 m., St. Prospeve 6 m.; duck, woodcock, 

 snipe and partridge; the first most numerous; Sept., Oct. and Nov. best; livery 

 moderate; hotels $1 p. d.; guides $1 p. d.; country mountainous, wet and bushy; 

 shooting good and farmers do not object. 



St Armand (C. Vt.)-Shad Island 6 m., Medcliffs 6 m., Swanton marshes 6 m., 

 Stevens point 5 m., Jameson's 5*2 ni., Missisquoi bay 2 m.; duck and geese princi- 

 pally; Oct. and Nov. best; livery $1.50 to $2 p. d.; hotels $1 to $2 p.d.; guides, 

 with dogs, reasonable; country open, low and wet; shooting excellent; partridge 

 are numerous, also foxes; land owners do not object. 



St. Eustache (Can. P.) Oka hills and bays, lake of Two Mountains and Mille 

 Isles river all within 9 in.; the first best; duck, plover, hare, partridge, seal, otter 

 and wild cat; livery $3 p d.; hotel $1 p. d.; guides $1 p. d.; country wooded, 

 hilly and marshy; shooting good and most of the land owners do not object. 



St. Gabriel (Q. & L. St. J.) Surrounding country within 7 in. of station; part- 

 ridge, woodcock, caribou and moose; Sept., Oct., Jan. and Feb. best; livery $1.50 

 to $2 p. d.; board can be had with farmers reasonable; no regular hotels; guides 

 moderate; country wooded and hilly; shooting good; farmers do not object. 



St. Gabriel de Brandon (Can. P.) The Canadian Pacific railroad has recently 

 extended a branch road from St. Philip de Valois to the above station, shortening 

 by some 20 miles the portage by buckboard to the Mastigouche lakes; see Berthicr, 

 P. Q., for details of hunting facilities. 



St. Johns , 

 m.. and other ^^ 



tels $1 p. d.; guides, with dogs, $2 p. d.; country varied; good shooting; a gov- 

 ernment license costing $20, must be purchased by foreigners; in the spring from 

 March 15th to May 1st; geese are abundant within 6 to 8 m. from St. Johns; plover 

 are most numerous from Aug. 20th to Sept. 28th; at about the latter date they 

 swarm in flocks of thousands in number. 



