The Washington times., 1905-09-04
STUDENTS LEARN
FOREST WOODLORE
Make Many Discoveries in
Northern Canada.
THOUSANDS OF ISLANDS
,Searchers Hail From Harvard. Yale,
Princeton, and Other
Colleges.
THOUSANDS OF ISLANDS

QOEkEC. Sept. A lake with sur
lace area OF a hundred square miles and
coast line of 1900 miles is among the
discoveries made by American university
men In northern Canada. 1t contains no
fewer than 1.4O0 islands. its waters and
those OF the surrounding lakes and
streams are stocked with the gamest OF
the game fishes OF the North. its shores
are the resort of the most interesting of
Canadian Indians and the most thickly
inhabited moose meadows of the con-
tinent are IN its immediate vicinity.
Prior to this year the simplest ap-
proach to Lake Temagam was by way
of Lake Transforming. a lake expansion
Of the Upper Ottawa river. over a long
canoe route and a number of portages,
one of which was over nine miles long.
Toward the end of last month the writer
reached the lake, which is nearly five
hundred miles due north of Buffalo, in
about fourteen hours of railway travel
from that city, and twenty miles down
the lake came upon the summer camp
of some seventy university men and
youths from almost every partfo the
American Union.
Many Colleges Represented.
They hail from Harvard and Yale.
from Princeton, Williams Cornell.
Cleveland and the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis, and while some
of the juniors are accompanied by tn
tors and devote a part of their time in
the woods to coaching up for supple
mentary or other examinations, many
of the others, both men and boys. are
simply holiday takers, improving the
summer vacation by drinking in the
Ife-giving ozone of the pine woods, by
~ ,arat Of agt-
outdoor sports and by the study of prac-
teal woodcraft.
Fishing hunting. canoeing. swim
ming and all that goes TO make up the
ideal sportsman are practiced at the
camp. while from the Indian guides is
taken course in, practical woodcraft
The boys first learn to pitch camp. and
are then taught the elements OF for
estry simple woodlore camp manual
trairing and natural history
The manual training is entirely In the
line OF camping things. The boys be-
gin by making such simple things a
tent racks. camp candlesticks and
wooden fishing reels, then go through
the more difficult ones of making canoe
paddles and moose s1eds and of stop
ping leaks in birchbark canoes. finish
ing up by making a complete canoe OF
bark after the Algonquin model.
Weeks on Tour
With their tents and canoes and with
Indian guides. they leave the main
camp at stated times for tours OF days
or weeks. as the case may be. through
the surrounding country And such a
country IL is. too
So much of its surface consists of
water that canoe trips may be made in
every direction The enormous coast
line of Lake Temagami is accounted for
by its shape. which resembles a huge
octopus with its tentacles stretching
out at length in very great numbers
and pointing toward every point of the
compass. From the end of each of
these many arms trips may be made by
river or portage into other lakes and
streams.
Temagami has been made accessible
to people having but little leisure at
their disposal by the recent censtruc-
ton of a government line of railway
from North Bay on Lake Nipissing to
the end OF the northeast arm of the
lake where lama gami Station is now
situated North Bay is 90 miles north
OF Toronto by the Grand Trunk railway
AS in all practically virgin Northern
waters. the fishing in Temagami and the
adjacent lakes Is really phenomenal At
Helen falls. which is little more than
twenty-four hours by canoe and por-
tage from Temagami. one of our party
killed fourteen brook trout from a
pound 10 two pounds in weight each. In
less than an hour. sometimes having a
brace OF these beautiful fish on his line
at a time