Arizona republican., 1907-09-01

shortest route between two points IS always by canoe. So numerous are the
 lakes that many still wait to be named by the tourist who first discovers them.
 The name Temagami is an Indian
 word and means deep water. The lakes was so called by the Ojibways less
 because of its actual depth than be- cause of its crystal clearness, which renders objects visible frequently to the depth of thirty or forty feet. Many are the Indian tales and legends that
 have to do with this noble body or
 water, the home of trout and bass and the haunt of duck and loon.
 The whole land is full of history. too-not geological, but human. On rocky island, one of fourteen hundred that dot the surface of Lake Tema- gami. may be seen the remains of an old trading port of the Hudson Bay company. A hundred years ago this port was the key to the fur trade or the northwest. Eastward lay civiliza- ton. To the west and north stretch ed the realm of the mink and sable. league upon league of unbroken forest and plain to the banks of the Meken- zie and the shores of the Frozen sea. But before that the country was the hunting ground of the Ojibway Indians and the scene of bloody battles be- tween them and the Iroquois for con- trol of the Mahamoo Sebee, or trade route of the Ottawa river.
 At the outlet of Lady Evelyn Lake, where the Montreal river gathers itself together for the wild rush over the Matawabika Falls, a band of Iroquois braves dug trenches one day and lay in wait for the Ojibways. When lucklass party of these Algenquims came down the stream to point oppo- site the trench they were greeted by a deadly flight of arrows. Of the en- tire band but two escaped and made their way back to their tribe on the shores of Lake Superior, there to rouse their fellows to the campaign that swept the Iroquois out of Ontario and across She lake. That was two hun dred and fifty years ago. but the trenches are still there. A hunting party stumbled on them last fall and shot a deer on the spot that had once run with Ojibway blood
 The game laws of the reservation are strict, but no stricter than those of Minnesota or Maine. Under the pro- tection they afford the moose and car bou have increased in numbers and the lakes now teem with trout and pike and bass.
 The moose are driven to the water by flies in June. but the flies disappear in July, and then the big animals keep more to cover. but they can be heard at night splashing and coughing as they take their drink at the lakeside. The open season for moose is from October 16 to November 15 inclusive. The caribou are more timid and harder to get. They are thickest in the hilly county near Smooth Water Lake. The red deer are found everywhere. south to Lake Nipissing. Bears are occa- sionally met with, and the reserve is a breeding ground for otter and beaver. but the latter are protected until 1910.
 Among the game birds that abound in the woods and along the streams are ruffled grouse. pine grouse. partridge, wild geese, wood duck, mallard, blue bills, mergansers and other water fowl.
 The small mouthed bass are very gam ey and some of the lake trout have been known to run as high as forty to fifty pounds. In fact the land is a veritable sportsman's paradise, main tained by the government for the ben eft Of the few who know of it. The of these is growing, and event. ually the place will become crowded apt, cnr1 1,trf fc xrat fc as hunters heart could desire.
 To the south and west the case is different. The gradual extinction of the game in some parts of the Rocky mountains and the reckless fishing of the trout streams has led some of the nimrods of the states to seek fresher fields in the woods of Ontario and Que bee. The years of westward ground breaking and pioneering are now at an end and the tide of real sportsmen who haunt the. silence is now turning north. So extensive has been this movement that it is estimated that this year at least 10000 men and women will camp in the Canadian woods. or more than the entire population of New France" two hundred years ago.
 For all this Champlain is in a way responsible. for to him rather than to any other the opening up of Canada is due. In the words of Parkman: Samuel de Champlain has been beau tifully called the Father of New France. In him were embodied her religious zeal and romantic spirit of adventure. Before the close of this career. purged of heresy. she took the posture which she held to the day Of her death-in one hand the crucifix. in the other the sword. His life. full of significance. is the true beginning of her eventful history"