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road (about 5-5 miles (8-8 km.) from Bancroft), 

 is through the old Egan or Bronson farm, an old 

 lumber depot and farm owned by the lumbering 

 firms whose names it has borne. It is now 

 known as the Lancaster farm, from the name of 

 its present owner. A now deserted lumber 

 road connects the farm buildings with the old 

 camping ground on York river still known as 

 Bronson's Landing. 



410-37 m. Bronson's Landing. At this place the 

 660-4 km. party will embark in canoes for the trip down 

 York river. York river or York branch of 

 Madawaska river, as it is sometimes called, 

 was formerly known as Shawashkong river. 

 As the last mentioned name implies, it flows 

 through extensive marshy flats, especially along 

 its lower and upper reaches. It may here be 

 mentioned that for the first ten or twelve miles 

 below Bronson's Landing the stream flows 

 through a region which still preserves the 

 general character and aspect possessed by the 

 primeval forest before the coming of the white 

 men. The river was well known to the early 

 inhabitants, and was much used by Indian 

 hunting and war parties. Most, if not all, the 

 pine trees have been removed by the lumberman, 

 but the river banks are thickly wooded to the 

 water's edge, principally by maple, elm, ash, 

 balsam and spruce. The red deer is a very 

 frequent visitor to the river and is by no means 

 a rare sight to those ascending or descending 

 the river in canoes. Muskrats, rabbits, porcu- 

 pines and other small wild animals may also 

 be seen, especially in the early morning or 

 evening. The largest of the canoes used by 

 the party on this present trip is similar in size 

 and material to those in use by the brigades 

 of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest companies 

 in the fur trade and is an exact model of the 

 canoe used by Sir George Simpson, Governor 

 of the Hon.. Hudson's Bay Company in his 

 memorable voyage from Hudson's bay to the 

 Pacific ocean in 1828. 



