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RECREA TION. 



Have you planned 



YOUR SUMMER. *j 



OR FALL VACATION f 



IF NOT, TRY CANADA 



If Canada, then why not the 

 Dumoine River Country? 



Why pay hunting or fishing 

 licenses ? 



A membership in the Ameri- 

 can Sportsmen's Game Preserve 

 makes that unnecessary. It 

 also entitles you to the privi- 

 lege of hunting or fishing on 

 the 300 square miles of pre- 

 served lands controlled by this 

 Club. It also gives you the use 

 of the club-house, the camps, 

 the boats, the services of game 

 keepers, etc. Also of guides, 

 at $1 a day. 



Read what a prominent cler- 

 gyman says of our preserve. 

 His letter is printed on this ®ff° 

 page. He lives near our prop- 

 erty and knows what he is 

 talking about. 



Read what a prominent phy- 

 sician says of it. His letter is 

 printed on page 453 of this 

 issue. He has hunted all 

 over this preserve and knows 

 whereof he speaks. 



We shall sell 50 memberships 

 at $150 each. The next 50 will 

 be $200 each. 



If you want to get in on the 

 ground floor send your check 

 at once. 



I. E. BOOTH, Secretary 



333 West 32d St., New Yo \ 



GAME AND FISH OF THE DU- 

 MOINE RIVER REGION. 



Pembroke, Ont 



Editor Recreation: I have hunted on 

 the Du Moine river, in Pontiac County, 

 Que., but have never been more than 25 

 miles above the mouth. From my own ex- 

 perience and from information obtained 

 from hunters, lumbermen, etc., who have 

 been over all the ground, I am able to give 

 you some practical information. 



The mouth of the Du Moine is about 

 50 miles West of this town, and is nearly 

 opposite Mackey's Station, on the main 

 line of the C. P. R. In the Du Moine re- 

 gion game and fish are plentiful. It is no 

 extravagance of language to say that deer 

 {Cervus virginianus) , grouse and moose are 

 abundant. Twenty years ago there was not 

 a deer track to be seen on the Du Moine; 

 but now they are there in thousands, and 

 of course, the wolves are there too. It is 

 the best hunting ground for moose, that I 

 know of. They are so entirely unacquaint- 

 ed with man, their tameness is shocking to 

 me. 



Up North, in the neighborhood of Grand 

 lake, there are caribou. A Pembroke man 

 saw 9 in one herd last winter, in that local- 

 ity, and tracks of hundreds more. I be- 

 lieve there are more black bears, to the 

 square mile, in tnat region than anywhere 

 else in Canada. 



The country is rough but there are old 

 lumber roads all through it, so that it is not 

 inaccessible. On these old roads one can 

 shoot all the grouse he wants without the 

 aid of dogs. A game hog could make a 

 record there on ruffed grouse, ptarmigan 

 and spruce grouse. 



There are many varieties of fur-bearing 

 animals such as foxes (red, silver, cross, 

 black and pure white), lynx, marten, fisher, 

 beaver, otter, mink, muskrat and wolverine. 



Although I have hunted there for 7 sea- 

 sons I never saw many ducks or geese, ex- 

 cept shell drakes and migratory flocks of 

 broad billed ducks. The shell drake, di- 

 vers and loons are to be seen on all the 

 many lakes of that region, but it is no place 

 for a 10 gauge gun, as the water-fowl really 

 don't amount to much. 



As to fish, it is impossible to exaggerate. 

 In the Du Moine itself there are no trout 

 of any kind, but no end of black bass, pike, 

 dore, and muskalonge. Every brook holds 

 the Salmo fontinalis in apparently unlimited 

 numbers. In the lakes which dot the whole 

 region the larger varieties of trout abound. 

 I have caught gray trout weighing 30 

 pounds, and speckle<i trout weighing 30 

 pounds, and one can get as many as he 

 wants, especially of the latter. These 

 weights, I am told, have been exceeded, 

 but I have not seen the fish. 



All in all, I know of no more desirable 

 tract of country in Canada, for hunting 

 and fishing. 



Rev. G. D. Bayne, B.A, Ph.D. 



