. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, s: . Champlain was the first white man of whom history speaks, who saw andfollowed in his canoe the Kawartha Lakes. It was in the year 1615 that he led thfeHurons and Algonqitins in their unsuccessful foray against the Iroquois. Leavingthe village of Cahiague (not far from Orillia) on the 1st September, he arrivedon the shore of Lake Couchiching, three leagues distant. The Narrows was alreadya famous fishing spot, where fish were taken in nets and winter-cured. From thepalisades employed by the fishermen to close up the strait. Lake Simcoe was known
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, s: . Champlain was the first white man of whom history speaks, who saw andfollowed in his canoe the Kawartha Lakes. It was in the year 1615 that he led thfeHurons and Algonqitins in their unsuccessful foray against the Iroquois. Leavingthe village of Cahiague (not far from Orillia) on the 1st September, he arrivedon the shore of Lake Couchiching, three leagues distant. The Narrows was alreadya famous fishing spot, where fish were taken in nets and winter-cured. From thepalisades employed by the fishermen to close up the strait. Lake Simcoe was known AECH^OLOGICAL EEPORT. 87 In the slight openings to the French as Lac aux Claies, or Lake of tlie Fish-Weir;that were left the nets were jDlaced. • Brnle and twelve stalwart savages in two canoes were despatched from theNarrows, donlitless by way of the Toronto portage and the west end of Lake Ontario,to notify the allied Fries or Carantouanans, who had promised to join the invaderswith five hundred men hefore the Iroquois town. 0)1 m roe. QliAMPLAINrSLand/ng In o /-a A /o w n^^ h ip ,• OnTEi I/O (~o : Cluimplain continues: They set out on the eighth of the said month, and onthe tenth following there was a hard white frost. We continued on our coursetowards the enemy, and made some five to six leagues (twelve and a half to fifteenmiles) in these lakes. Thence the Indians portaged their canoes about ten leagues(say twenty-four miles) overland and came to another lake, extending six to sevenleagues in length and three in width (no doubt Balsam Lake), fromwhich issuesa river which empties into the great Lake of the Entonhonorans (sic), and, going,we passed five falls (or rapids) hy land, some of them four to five leagues in length,and passed through several lakes of considerable extent, as also the said river, which AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. is ver} abundant in good fish. Certainly this whole coimtrv is very beautiful andagreeable. Along the bank, it seems that the trees were plant
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