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Chief Ranger Thomson's Report on Algonquin Park

item3 Jan 1894F2165-f38-495

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Dates
3 Jan 1894 (indexed as 1894)
Level
item
Extent
1 item of textual record
Scope & content
Report: on his lengthy visit to the park headquarters and on sites selected for shelter-lodges (15 altogether). He discusses cutting and clearing of trails and portages. Makes no specific references to Indians. States that several trappers have removed traps from park, giving up idea of trapping there. Notes that there was a trapper's camping ground on north side of Horseshoe and Mink Lakes where several skins and traps were seized; however, the trapper was not found.
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Language
English
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