THE GEOGEAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 

 THE OUANANICHE 



IT has been the custom of most writers upon the 

 ouananiche of Canada, and is still the habit of many 

 of them, to speak of it as peculiar to Lake St. John 

 and its tributary waters. This ignorance of the real 

 facts as to the occurrence of the fish is doubtless due 

 to the difficulty of reaching any of the other rivers 

 or lakes in which it is found. Few of these latter 

 have ever been visited for the pleasure derived from 

 fishing them. With the exception of portions of one 

 or two streams flowing into the lower St. Lawrence, 

 our information respecting the finny inhabitants of 

 these ouananiche waters is derived only from the re- 

 ports of members of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 and from those of Provincial Land Surveyors, Indians, 

 etc. The first mention that I can find of the existence 

 of these fish in the Province of Quebec in other than 

 the Lake St. John waters, is in the report of the 

 Crown Lands Department of this province for 1887, 

 where Guardian Lattey, of the Megantic Fish and 

 Game Club, states that he has been told that there 

 were " winnonish " in Arnold Bog. He admits that he 

 never caught any of them, and I was at first strongly 



