. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. FOVEf^T TJiEh'S. 281 he brings into market. Formerly the squaws cooked their food in bark cauldrons, in which water was brought to the boiling point by putting in a series of red-hot stones. The back settler uses birch bark for roofing purposes, and it is highly prized in house-building; a layer of bark under the clajvboards makes a very warm and comfort- able h
. The emigrant and sportsman in Canada [microform] : some experiences of an old country settler : with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. FOVEf^T TJiEh'S. 281 he brings into market. Formerly the squaws cooked their food in bark cauldrons, in which water was brought to the boiling point by putting in a series of red-hot stones. The back settler uses birch bark for roofing purposes, and it is highly prized in house-building; a layer of bark under the clajvboards makes a very warm and comfort- able house. The Indian wigwams, made entirely of birch bark, are perfectly tight in all weathers, aud very warm. But perhaps it is in kindling fires and making torches that birch bark is most valuable. Without bark it is very hard to kindle a fire in the woods in wet weather; bat the bark is always dry and always inflammable. Often and often the backwoodsman would have to spend the nii!;ht in the woods were it not for the birch-bark torch which serves to light him home to his camp. Out of it he makes his plates and his drinking cups, even his spoons. Aceriness. Two of these trees are very common all over Canada, the rock maple {Acer saccharinum), and the white maple (A. dasycarpum). These are the most beautiful trees in the Canadian forest. Their tall rugged trunks tire crowned with a mass of ^oliage, beautiful in summer, but doubly beautiful when turned by the early frosts of the fall into twenty gorgeous colours and shades of colours. ]\ry pen is quite unable to describe the beauties of the Canadian forest at this season of the year. No painter has ever done justice to it. The rock maple is a very tough, close-grained, and hard wood. It is highly prized for axe handles, sleigh runners, shafts, poles, machinery, and any purpose for which strength and elasticit) are required. The bird's-eye maple that we see. y- I W. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page imag
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