Landing where I alighted with my horses
and rode south until I reached Pouce Coupe
Prairie. Cutbank Landing in those days was
nothing but a bay in the river where the
boat could stop to put off passengers and
freight. There was not even a sign board
to mark the spot, only a trail leading up
the high bank of the river through dense
bush, and I had to hunt around to find it.

was bush country interspersed with patches
of open land, which has since been taken up
by homesteaders.

LocaTInGc A HoME SITE

There being nothing approaching a vill-
age, nor any certainty where one would
spring up, I decided to establish my police
station as near as possible in the centre of

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A good catch of foxes.

After passing a restless night by a campfire,
fighting off mosquitoes, I started out for my
destination. The first cabin sighted was nine
miles south of the river, from then on there
was prairie with scattered settlement for
twenty miles to the south. The prairie was
about two hundred square miles of rolling
land lying west of the Pouce Coupe River,
a tributary of the Peace. Beyond this prairie

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the settlement, on Saskatoon Creek. A log
cabin was built by one of the settlers who
rented it to the government, and this little
building served as a police station until the
fall of 1917, when the police office was
moved to where the village of Pouce Coupe
had grown up around the post office of that
name at the south end of the settlement.

Sizing up the situation after a patrol in
which I visited nearly every settler, it
seemed rather a mystery what these people
were living off, as none of them had been
there long enough to raise a crop and mark-
ets were too far distant if they had. I soon
found out that there was hardly a family
which did not have some member engaged
in trapping as a sideline, and in many cases
trapping was the sole source of income.
Some excellent catches of fur had been made
during the previous winter, right in the
open country where the settlers were lo-
cated, and some of the trappers were going
over their lines on horesback, returning
home each night, a rather unusual practice
for trappers. In this open country the chief
animals caught were foxes and coyotes,
which were very plentiful, largely on ac
count of the fact that the whole country
was overrun by Arctic hares, or snowshoe
rabbits. One of the settlers who ran a trap
line within a few miles of his homestead
made a winter’s catch which netted him
close to three thousand dollars.

In the bush away from the settlement,
several trappers caught furs that brought
them returns that paid them well for their
work, as all fur-bearing animals were
numerous and their fur was of the best
quality.

Black, silver and cross foxes, considered

rarities, were quite plentiful, and several
had been taken alive and were being kept
in pens by their captors, who made applica-
tions to me for fur farming permits. Owing
to the difficulty and expense of shipping
wire netting into the country these would:

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