. 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. SALMON FISHERY. 235 is very good. The farming season is short, but the rapidity and luxuriance of the vegetation is most remarkable. Tlie snow is not off the ground till the middle of May, and yet I have often seen barley in ear and potatoes in blossom on the 20tli of July, about which time hay-making commences. The intervale land on the Kestigouche river is pa
. 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. SALMON FISHERY. 235 is very good. The farming season is short, but the rapidity and luxuriance of the vegetation is most remarkable. Tlie snow is not off the ground till the middle of May, and yet I have often seen barley in ear and potatoes in blossom on the 20tli of July, about which time hay-making commences. The intervale land on the Kestigouche river is particularly rich. If the people in this country would only attend to their farms, and make their sons stay at home and help them, they could not fail to do well, as the price of all agricultural produce is good. Instead of this, they look upon their farms as only of secondary importance, as mere adjuncts to lumbering, fishing, &c. The Indian name of the Bay of Ciialeur is Echeetan NemacJm, or sea of fishes. There is probably no oth(3r expanse of water in the world of the same extent in which the finny tribes exist in such multitudes and in such variety. It is a favourite resort of the Sahnonidic, a species that delights in pure clean water, in rough and rapid rivers. This is essentially the nature of the rivers in this region, which flow through an uncultivated and rocky country, and in which the Sahnonidw find beds to deposit their spawn safe from molestation. Both salmon and trout are particularly large and fine. At the head of the bay, more especially at the Canadian side, salmon average 20 lbs. in weight. The fishery is a very impor- tant and lucrative business here; it commences on the 1st of June, and lasts for two months. During that short period I have known one fisherman take 20,OUO lbs. weight of salmon, which at 6 cents would amount to $1200. It would be hard to estimate the total amount exported from the bay, but it must be very large. The greater * â ! «â
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