October 14, 1915. 
Canada 
Geological Survey 
Museum Bulletin No. 21. 
GEOLOGICAL SERIES, No. 30. 
Notes on the Geology and Palmoniology of the Lower Saskatchewan 
River Valley. 
By E. M. Kindle. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The observations recorded here are the result of field work 
undertaken during the summer of 1913 for the purpose of extend- 
ing northward and westward the stratigraphic and faunal studies 
begun the preceding season about the shores of Lakes Winni- 
pegosis and Manitoba. The completion of the new Hudson 
Bay railway to Pas on the Saskatchewan and the laying of steel 
some 40 miles farther had made easily accessible for the geologist 
a strip of country along its line about 130 miles in length. This 
line traverses the region at about right angles to the strike of the 
rocks. In an unsettled, forest-covered region like this where 
geological data could be obtained heretofore only along canoe 
routes, it was expected that the rock exposures resulting from 
railway construction might furnish new information of value. 
The trip was continued down the Saskatchewan by canoe to 
Grand Rapids at the mouth of the river, thence by sailboat around 
the north end of Lake Winnipeg to Warren Landing at the head 
of Nelson river. Between the latter point and Selkirk, steamer 
service is maintained throughout the navigation season. War- 
ren Landing lies in the Archaean area just east of the eastern border 
of the Palaeozoic rocks, while Hudson Bay Junction, the starting 
point of the new railway, lies southwest of the Palaeozoic belt, in 
a Cretaceous area. The route traversed, therefore, crosses the 
