Mt, Albert trip of 1306 
* ? [From the Journal of J.irraaklin Collins j 
Aug. 1, 1905 (Tuesday) 
Cloudy, windy,cold. After brrifcf e ft at lost Louis Fernald ana 
I walked to P.0, end learned that a letter addressed to me had 
teen delivered to Mr. Allen G. Cameron, the S&pt. of the At. 
loiis Setgnory, so we called at the house and got it. We started 
about 8 a.ra. ir a barge with Mr, Bushier and another man for 
Ste, Anne des Monts. e were practio lly becalmed for an hour 
off Ft. de Chasee. The rest of the way we had a good fair wind. 
Leached Ste. A. about 4:30 p.m. nearly frozen. Font into Mr. 
leraontagne*s store and talked with him aboa boarding places, &e. 
We came "to lefrsneois's piece, Femald has a down stairs room 
and I one upstairs. Before supper F b X talked up to Ste. Anne 
river and after supper down to i.O. after writing letters home, 
Aug, 2, 1305 {Wednesday} 
Rainy and cold, stooped about Lefrencoie’ house most of day. 
Partially organized things to go up river. In p.m. Mr. Cote of 
Cap Chat" end friend came and ve decide4 to have Mr. Cote take 
charge of the trip and we made out a list of things for him 
to get tomorrow. We planned to start in early p.m, In p.m. 
we walked down through the village and back, in eve. talked 
with the Supt. of the mill. 
Aug. 3, 1905 (Thursday) 
Cloudy and foggy in A.M. Clearing in p.m. Clear and with 
aurora in evening. In a.a. s.*oat io.-t of time ip/gettlng ready 
to go up river, "Ve had Mr. Ls franco is haul our luggage down 
to the rifcor after dinner,and about 1:30 we started up river in 
two or noesi bern&ld and parfj of baggage in one and I and the 
rest of baggage in the other. The river is a rather rapid one 
and we went up shout loo ft. in the first 9 miles, where we 
stopped for the night at hr. Starkey’s lower samp. Our canoe- 
men { Cotd, Joe'Fortin, Hector & Eduard Gagnon) pitched tent 
and Fernald and I dined with Mr. Thomas Starkey, upon his special 
invitation. Lice dinner and pleasant chat afterwards, T & I 
in tent; c noemeu in house for guides. From camp a fine view of 
first of the BhieksUocko is seen. 
Aug. 4, 1905 (Friday) 
Fair, Tartly clear- Tory wart in middle of day. re left 
the ”9 mile” camp about 8 a.ia. and stopped for lunch at 11:45. 
While at lunch two men erne down with the skin of a bear they 
had killed at next damp (Starkey’s camp) above. We camped 
near the head of a long and hard rapid mown as "3 mile rapid” 
and above Grand Rapid. .tear the a par end of ”3 mile rapid” we 
passed through a wild and beautiful rocky gorge (Grand Rapid) 
where it was very difficult to ge3 the canoes through. $.& 1 
in lean-to under"canopies; mem in test, 
Aug. 5, 1905 (Saturday) , , 
Cloudy and somewhat showery, arm.in middle of aay. collect¬ 
ed considerable number of specimens (F.did) and I get quite a 
number of mosses. In late pass* wo reached Riviere 3a Marte 
(Martin Liver) mci camped about 1 mile above ta&t on a gravel 
beach. Got some fine views o Tapiatop Mt. (celled locally 
Table Mt.). A few rods above our camp the tfep of lit. Albert 
was seen 1 —our first flew of it--over the top of a groat tidge. 
Heavy wind in the night, i'.fc I in lean-to; men in tent 
