Outing . 716 OUTING Winnipegosis, a typical frontier town, atpresent of about five hundred has a number of stores and is the trad-ing center of the sparsely inhabited re-gion. Out beyond, up the lake, is prac-tically a virgin wilderness, with hardlyany white settlers, a few half-breeds, andwidely scattered small Indian line of railway, further west,has reached the Saskatchewan River try. One leaves the railroad and townand is at once cut off from the power boat we skirt the lonelyshores for scores of miles, gaze at marshand poplar forest with clumps o
Outing . 716 OUTING Winnipegosis, a typical frontier town, atpresent of about five hundred has a number of stores and is the trad-ing center of the sparsely inhabited re-gion. Out beyond, up the lake, is prac-tically a virgin wilderness, with hardlyany white settlers, a few half-breeds, andwidely scattered small Indian line of railway, further west,has reached the Saskatchewan River try. One leaves the railroad and townand is at once cut off from the power boat we skirt the lonelyshores for scores of miles, gaze at marshand poplar forest with clumps of pointedspruce projecting here and there, watchpairs or small flocks of ducks flying off,but see no signs of human life. We havesuddenly passed beyond the pale of civil-ization. Back from the lake the coun-. HALF-BREED SINGEING DUCKS FOR DINNER country at Le Pas, north of the head ofthis lake, and is being pushed rapidlynortheast to Fort Churchill on the westshore of Hudsons Bay. For some yearsto come, however, Winnipegosis will re-main the point of approach for a largearea of wilderness. The region is one of poplar forest,with extensive marshes bordering the biglake and the streams and chains of small-er lakes connecting with it. Though theforest is extensive, it is distinctively awet country, and there is a great deal ofmarsh and swamp suitable for the breed-ing of wildfowl. What impresses one atfirst is the absolute loneliness of the coun- try is unsurveyed and practically un-traversed. We saw the first surveyingparty at work. Settlers are pouring into the southernpart of northwest Canada and taking upland for agricultural purposes. Thisnorthern forest country is a differentstory, a land, not of farming, but ofhunting, fishing, trapping. We locatedwith a French-Canadian family on thela
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