. Rod and gun. r camp. On this trip we were away eight days in alland got a haul of five lynx and two deer, forwhich we worked very hard. Furs from Northern Alberta Manv thousand dollars worth of furswerecarriedout of Northern Alberta this winter,writes our Edmonton correspondent. Someof the animals were taken alive, particularlyin the case of foxes, to be used as breedingstock for the many fur farms of the East andalso for local ranches of which there are quitea number. Perhaps the most valuable consignmentwas that brought in by Colin Eraser, a well-known northern trader. This catch wasbrough
. Rod and gun. r camp. On this trip we were away eight days in alland got a haul of five lynx and two deer, forwhich we worked very hard. Furs from Northern Alberta Manv thousand dollars worth of furswerecarriedout of Northern Alberta this winter,writes our Edmonton correspondent. Someof the animals were taken alive, particularlyin the case of foxes, to be used as breedingstock for the many fur farms of the East andalso for local ranches of which there are quitea number. Perhaps the most valuable consignmentwas that brought in by Colin Eraser, a well-known northern trader. This catch wasbrought in from I^ort Chippewyan, about 600miles north of Edmonton, and is worth in theneighborhood of §100,000. In the lot wereforty-five silver foxes and furs of twenty-fiveblack fox; seventy-five silver fox; 1.^0 crossfox: 250 red fox; eighty five white fox; 450marten; 375 mink;fifty fisher and seventy-five otter. Walter Eaton brought in skins oflilack fox and two silvers from Lake Saskatoon,Peace River Our Dining Room THREE WEEKS OUTING IN ANANGLERS PARADISE ON GEORGIAN BAY Russell Hone BACK again in the ofTice at work after athree weeks fishing trip on GeorgianBay. Georgian Bay with its beautifulthirty thousand islands; its numerous chan-nels; its bays bordered ^sdth grotesque rocksand towering pines and cedars—a perfectanglers paradise. In my opinion our form of vacation lastyear was an ideal one and not too expensive. There were only three of us in CampPazazza. We were to have been four in num-ber but unfortunately at the last momentMac found he couldnt come and so we hadto go ahead by ourselves, sorry though we wereto be without him. As we hailed from the West we met inWinnipeg and bought our principal suppliesthere, wiring Toronto for a tent, a case ofeggs, and some butter, all of which were to beshipped to Point au Baril station, our point ofembarkation. The supplies bought in Win-nipeg we took along with us as luggage asprevious to that we had scarcely any, o
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