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SALMON PISHING IN EASTERN CANADA. 
(WITH MAP). 
BY 
LIEUT.-COLONEL J. C. DALTON, E.A. 
THERE are, I believe, different opinions as to the style o£ article 
which should find a place in the pages of the “ Proceedings” R.A.I. 
Some, I fancy, think that we should confine ourselves to purely 
professional subjects and regimental gossip and that if such a topic as 
sport, outside our ordinary regimental meetings is to be chronicled, it 
should be confined to that branch of hunting of which we have all at 
one time been more or less ardent devotees, viz., the hunting of x ! 
On the other hand, there are a few, possibly, who would fain see our 
“ Proceedings ” more in the form of a social or sporting magazine and 
eliminate from it a great deal of the professional element, especially 
that of a more abstruse nature. 
Personally, I incline to a “ happy medium ” and think that whilst 
the “ Proceedings ” are primarily for professional purposes, and for 
eliciting the views of officers on the burning questions of the day as 
regards military art and artillery science, still it is pleasant now and 
then, to leaven the lump with records of sport and travel in the various 
parts of the world to which the members of a regiment, whose motto 
is “ ubique,” are bound to penetrate at some time or other in tlieir 
service. 
It is, therefore, in this spirit that I offer these simple notes of a 
fishing excursion in Canada, and do not think I need apologise for so 
doing, otherwise than for my temerity in venturing to publish hints on 
a sport of which many of my brother officers probably know much 
more than I do, and on which they could, f an they would*, dilate with 
greater experience and to more advantage. 
IT was my good fortune, this year, to get a rod on one of the best 
salmon rivers for fly fishing in Canada, the Bonaventure; and as many 
of my brother officers may visit that country either for duty or 
pleasure, or, what is better, for both in their proper seasons, it has 
occurred to me that a few notes as to the mode of living, outfit and 
system adopted, together with the class of sport to be obtained, may 
be useful. 
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