- Queen's University Archives
- Algonquins of Golden Lake Claim collection
- Primary Documents PD506-PD551
- Peter Thomson, Superintendent, Algonquin National Park to A.S. Hardy, Commissioner, of Crown Lands
Peter Thomson, Superintendent, Algonquin National Park to A.S. Hardy, Commissioner, of Crown Lands
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- Dates
- 5 Jan 1895 (indexed as 1895)
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- Scope & content
- Report on Algonquin National Park: indicating that the park was extended in the last year. Describes additions as per O.C. 2 Oct. 1894. Park now encompasses 993,489 acres of land and 115, 894 acres of water or a total of 1,109,383 acres equal to 1,733 square miles. 'There is no open and flagrant violation of those provisions which forbid hunting and trapping in the Park. and so far as the diligence and watchfulness of the rangers and myself have enabled us to ascertain. there have been but few attempts at secret poaching. One or two infractions of the law have come to my knowledge, but from lack of evidence the offenders have not yet been prosecuted." p. 59 The new area of the park was posted against hunting and notices placed along railway and in villages and stations. p. 59 Reports on dramatic rise in beaver population since inception of park. Describes the route of the Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway, now in progress of construction between those two points. Also colonization road being built from Dorset to South Tea lake and from Huntsville and Dwight to Canoe Lake. Fishing prohibited in park without a license from Commissioner of Crown Lands or Supt.; then only with hook and line and for food.
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