Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1913. 
VOL. LXXX.—No. 7. 
127 Franklin St., New York. 
By Paddle and Portage in Algonquin National Preserve 
T here are still a few stretches of untram¬ 
meled Hinterland yet to be found in 
Canada, but much of this so-called wilder¬ 
ness lies over the Height of Land and is prac¬ 
tically inaccessible for the average tourist who 
has only an all-too-brief vacation- coming to 
him. In the Algonquin National Park, On¬ 
tario's immense 2,000,000-acre forest and game 
preserve, however, we find this obstacle of in¬ 
accessibility absolutely removed. The glisten¬ 
ing steel of the G. T. R. “Ottawa” Division 
cuts through the park about a third way up 
from Its southern edge, and situated thereon we 
find two splendidly equipped inns, one at Joe 
Lake and the second at Cache Lake (Algonquin 
Park Station); and at each of these two points 
we also may obtain • complete outfitting sup¬ 
plies from canoes and guides down to the 
smallest items of the provision pack. 
Possibly there are other canoeing and fish-, 
ing territories as virgin and offering much that 
By S. E. SANGSTER (CANUCK) 
is worth while—but they are away in sections 
hard to reach, and they offer nothing not found 
in the National Preserve. With its thousands 
of ideal lakes and streams, “made to order,” 
as it were, for the vehicle of the “silent places” 
—the canoe—stretching away into the interior, 
each lake leading into another, the streams be¬ 
tween gleaming like silver threads as they wind 
their silent, tortuous path around the moun¬ 
tains, the great spruce and pine-clad heights 
overshadowing all, no summer playground on 
the whole American continent can “show any¬ 
thing” on this great work of the Almighty. 
Likewise the fishing is, and would be ex¬ 
pected, the kind found in waters which are 
naturally the home of the trout, and that have 
been properly protected, absolutely nothing be¬ 
ing permitted but rod and line. The trout 
species are there, the delicate pink-fleshed 
speckled beauties running up to 2)4 and 3 
pounds, the gray or lake trout averaging from 
3 to 26 pounds, and their cousin, the black- 
spotted salmon or red trout, often being taken 
as hefty as 12 and 20 pounds—occasionally over 
this. And. let me whisper, oh! brother angler, 
these salmon beauties are no sluggards; they 
live in the ice-cold lakes of this wild Lauren- 
tian country, and they fight like—well you have 
all you can handle when you aonnect with one. 
Of course, w'hen the heat of July and early 
August has tempered the surface water, the big 
ones retire into the deep sinks and crevices, 
with which these lakes are filled, and conse¬ 
quently one has to go down after them with 
heavy tackle—but from an extended experience 
I feel justified in claiming one can catch as 
large salmon and have all the fight he is looking 
lor at any time between early May and the 
middle of September. “Nuf ced.” 
Upon leaving “steel,” either at Joe Lake or 
at Cache Lake, one has the choice of a multi¬ 
tude of outing routes open to him—so varied 
SCENES IN ALGONQUIN NATIONAL PARK. 
