CHAPTER IV 



Algonquin National Park — Simcoe Lake — Barrie — Muskoka 

 Lake — The Great Forest — Primeval conditions — Cache Lake — 

 The hand of the spoiler — Conservators' report — Animal life — 

 Trout fishing on Cranberry Lake — Scientific and unscientific 

 angling — Camping out — The Indian canoe — The Corkscrew 

 River — My guide — Beavers' dams — The beaver's house- 

 Co-operative labour — The romance of a monogamist — Canoe 

 Lake —The Thunderstorm — Fishing Lakes — Down the 

 Muskoka River — Battling with the rapids — Whiskey Falls — 

 Deer and their habits — The Dolly Varden trout — Wet and 

 dry fly fishing — Fresh fish for supper — Lumbering, and injury 

 to trout streams — Befriending drowned-out campers — The 

 howling of wolves — The rush through the forest — A wary 

 quarry. 



THE Ontario Government preserves in Algon- 

 quin National Park all the primitive condi- 

 tions of Eastern Canada. En route by the Grand 

 Trunk Railway a low-lying flat suggestive of the 

 Netherlands is traversed, which has probably given 

 its name to the Holland River which waters it. As 

 the journey progresses, it leads to the uplands of 

 Ontario, where natural beauties unfold themselves in 

 great variety. By the time Algonquin Park is 

 reached, a distance of 200 miles from Toronto, the 



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