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ing them in winter by the dozen, and fishing through 

 the ice, driving back to market with as heavy loads 

 of trout as their horses could draw. Now all this has 

 been stopped. Fishing through the ice for trout has 

 been entirely prohibited in Canada, and fishing of any 

 kind in the Lake Jacques Cartier country can only be 

 indulged in by holders of government permits, which 

 must be obtained from the superintendent of the Lau- 

 rentides National Park, at the Parliament House, Que- 

 bec, from whom they can be had upon payment of a 

 small license fee. Neither Lake Jacques Cartier nor 

 any of the neighboring waters will ever be leased for 

 angling purposes, for they are enclosed within the ter- 

 ritory of the newly established Laurentides National 

 Park, already referred to in the chapter entitled " In 

 Camp and Canoe." 



For the maintenance of a proper water-supply the 

 situation of the park has been admirably chosen. It 

 contains within its boundaries the main water-shed be- 

 tween the valleys of the Saguenay and the St. Law- 

 rence, and the various heights of land that give rise to 

 the Metabetchouan and La Belle Eiviere, flowing into 

 Lake St. John ; the Pikauba, which empties into Lake 

 Kenogami ; the Chicoutimi, A Mars, and Ha Ha riv- 

 ers, leading tributaries of the Saguenay ; and the Mal- 

 baie, Id grande riviere of St. Ann de Beaupre, the 

 Montmorenci, the Jacques Cartier, the St. Anne (de la 

 Perade), and the southeast branch of the Batiscan, all 

 important feeders of the St. Lawrence. Almost all of 

 these rivers and the lakes that they drain swarm with 

 the largest and choicest of trout, both fontinalis and 

 namaycush. These latter are often erroneously called 



