THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE 

 OUANANICHE 



ONLY in very recent years have Mr. A. P. Low, of 

 the Geological Survey of Canada, and others discov- 

 ered that it was an error to regard the ouananiche as 

 peculiar to Lake St. John and its tributary waters. 

 Prior to that discovery a description of the Canadian 

 environment of this remarkable fish would have been 

 a much lighter task than it is to-day, when it involves 

 at least a reference to the entire Labrador peninsula. 

 Within the last few years, as already seen in the 

 chapter on the " Geographical Distribution of the 

 Ouananiche," the fish has been shown to inhabit wa- 

 ters flowing into Ungava Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, 

 as well as those that find their way into the St. 

 Lawrence through the deep gorge of the Saguenay. 



As an instance of the extent of the Northeast Ter- 

 ritories, which form a large part of the Labrador pe- 

 ninsula, it has been pointed out by Mr. A. H. D. Eoss, 

 of the Dominion Geological Survey, that Moose Fort, 

 on James Bay, is as far from the easterly point of 

 Labrador as it is from Washington. The interior of 

 this vast territory has always been beyond the line 

 of accurate knowledge. It is as truly a terra incog- 



