. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, says their totems are the Heron, Beaver, Birch-bark, and Blood.$ The Xipissings on the Eeservation number, according to the last census of1910, 226 souls. Xot many of these are pure-blooded Indians. Most of theIndians in our Province are now half-breeds, or three-quarters blood, and, in allprobability, the pure Indian, in a hundred years, will die out, as did the last of theHurons in Quebec Province a few years ago. * Lake Nipigon is in the Province of Ontario. It empties into Lake Superior by theNipigon River, which is forty miles long. t When a pag
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, says their totems are the Heron, Beaver, Birch-bark, and Blood.$ The Xipissings on the Eeservation number, according to the last census of1910, 226 souls. Xot many of these are pure-blooded Indians. Most of theIndians in our Province are now half-breeds, or three-quarters blood, and, in allprobability, the pure Indian, in a hundred years, will die out, as did the last of theHurons in Quebec Province a few years ago. * Lake Nipigon is in the Province of Ontario. It empties into Lake Superior by theNipigon River, which is forty miles long. t When a pagan Indian became a Christian he was said to have embraced or made thePrayer. During tlie 17th and early 18th centuries, Christianity among all the savages wasknown liy the name of Prayer. If the Prayer had toleratetl polygamy, there would have beenless diflReulty in converting the tribes. See Relation of Father Sebastian Rasles in LettresEdifiantes. t Bureau of A. Eth. Bulletin 3, cited bv Professor James Moonev, from N. Y. Doc. The fishes may be defined as cokl-blooded \erte])rates ada])ted for liie in thewater, breathing by means of gills attached to bony or cartilaginous gill arches,having the skull well developed, and with a lower jaw. Of these, C A\. , informs ns that there are about one hundred and thirty varieties, in the vastrivers and series of lakes covering this province (Ontario). Xo country in theworld has a greater supjjly of edible fish than is to be found in the Dominion ofCanada. From the cod and salmon fisheries of her eastern coast to the magni-ficent river-fishing of British Cohnnbia ; where, at times, on the Frascr river youcan almost walk across over the vast concourse of salmon pushing their wayupwards to their spawning grounds. Such was the country visited by the Englishand French, when they first mingled with tlie red-skiiinr>d iidiahitants of thenorthern half of the continent. Fishing, in conjunction with liunting. constitutcilt
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