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Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. throughout the Hig-hlands in which tohouse, comfortably, the ever swelling-throng-. A few years ag-o this pioneer Canadianrailway acquired the Canada Atlantic,a short line running almost west fromMontreal to Lake Huron via Ottawa,and passing- right through AlgonquinNational Park. This line is now knownas the Ottawa Division, and is to be re-built, and put in first class condition, asit will not only handle the tourist travelfrom Montreal and Ottawa, but alongthis line millions of bushels of wheat The late Charles A. Dana used toargue that to know, and love and livewith Shakespeare was to shut out of ones,life and mind all that was bad, and so itis with the wilderness. The vast grand-eur of it all gives a man a correctmeasure of his own insignificant self ;while to live here is to get next to nature. When here I walk the Woodland green,. I come so close to GodHis answering signals may be seen In each wild roses nod. There is, to my mrnd, in all the World
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C.\MP ox SMOKE L.A.KE, ALGONOUIX XATION.AL PARK. will find its way to tide water at Mon-treal. Algonquin National Park, lying in theheights of the celebrated Highlands ofOntario holds nearly 2,000,000 acres offorest, lake, river and wild. The railway line lies 1,631 feet abovethe sea, but the rocky heights reach upto an altitude of two thousand feet. Theatmosphere is pure and balmy, but alwayscool and refreshiug. A week here willcure hay fever, while one glance at GodsWorld in the rough is sufllicient to wardoff a Brain Storm. nothing so fair and bright and beautifuFas the World itself. And do you know, O gentle, but some-times conceited reader, that the originaldwellers of this wilderness were absolute-ly honest ? Do you know that before wecame with our lofty airs, self-satisfied andflying the flag that ought to make us fitthe blood-stained banner of Prince-Amonualas I used to hear it from anexhorting uncle of mine, these peopleknew no guile. Do you know that to-this day despite our

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