. Rod and gun . orty miles manag-ed to hustle round and fix up the campthe same night. We were early on footnext morning despite our exertions ofthe previous day, and hunted through-out the day, securing our moose at fiveo clock. Our return to the camp, thegood supper and the evening engagedin talking over our adventures, have leftmany pleasant memories with us. Thenext day was a busy one and entirelytaken up with getting the moose to dressing and quartering we had acarry of three quarters of a mile to thelake. Here we built a raft and took themeat safely across. With another carryo
. Rod and gun . orty miles manag-ed to hustle round and fix up the campthe same night. We were early on footnext morning despite our exertions ofthe previous day, and hunted through-out the day, securing our moose at fiveo clock. Our return to the camp, thegood supper and the evening engagedin talking over our adventures, have leftmany pleasant memories with us. Thenext day was a busy one and entirelytaken up with getting the moose to dressing and quartering we had acarry of three quarters of a mile to thelake. Here we built a raft and took themeat safely across. With another carryof half a mile we reached our McKenzie was the fortunat- hunt-er, making the successful shot. Before breaking up camp we secureda second one, shot by Smith Fraser,though on this occasion we were not so lucky as to locality. The two mooseweighed over 1,200 pounds dressed. About forty moose were killed lastseason in the neighborhood of our hunt-ing grounds, each party going out enjoy-ing a successful Bringing Out the Moose, Coxs Lake, Guysboro Road, the left: Edgar Reid, Len. McKenzie, Smith Fraser,Angus McKenzie, Billy McKenzie. A Visit to the British Columbia Salmon Canneries BY NOEL GRANT. OUR trip out from Vancouver onthe train was uneventful. Welanded with two or three car loadsof other tourists and visited theImperial Cannery, the first and largeston the coast. There w^as a big crowd at the gateand at first we thought we were not go-ing to be admitted. Presenth% however,the gatekeeper spied my companion and,knowing him, said, How do you do Mr. , How many of you? In this way we were passed in, leaving thecrowd howling at the gate. Needless tostate we saw all there was to be seen. All along the Fraser river at Steves-ton the banks are dyked, and on the ri-ver side of the dykes is a long row ofcanneries, how many I cannot state. Be-tween them are piers with rails forstretching nets (like curtain stretchers)and all along are eastern-looking buck-ets for d
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