a trading post where last supplies for the trip may be obtained.
Choosing a route through the masses of water lilies, the canoeist
steers his course toward the foot of Teapot mountain, and is- soon
across the lake. From the lake, the canoe starts down the Crooked
river—a most appropriate name—which winds and twists so that one
is viewing the moun-
tains first from the
left and then from the
right. This river fair-
ly teems with fish, in-
cluding grayling and
Dolly Varden and Rain-
bow trout, and the
angler here finds -a
paradise of fishing very
hard to equal anywhere
that trout are found.

The Crooked river
expands at several points into small lakes, including Davies, Kerry
and McLeod lakes. On the latter lake is located a Hudson’s Bay
Company post, where one may witness the time honored custom of
fur-trading with the Indians, while a little apart is to be seen a
dilapidated Indian village.

Leaving Fort McLeod one takes the Pack river which empties into
the Parsnip river. This country is the home of the trapper, whose
cabins may be seen from time to time along the river banks. The
Parsnip is a wider river, with lone sweeps of broad valley flanked
by ever higher hills as one drops downstream. The water is not so
clear as in the upper stream, and is cold and swift flowing.

At Finlay Forks the Parsnip meets the. Finlay, and the two com-
bining turn eastward under the new name of the Peace river, which
continues through the
last gorge of the
Rockies into the great
plains of the Peace
River country. At
Hudson’s Hope a port-
age of twelve miles
must be made past the
canyon of the Peace,
whose wild waters at
this point are beyond
the possibilities of any
craft. Here one may
see early work being Mount Selwyn
done toward the devei-
opment of the anthracite coal fields, which only await transportation
to rival the famous Pennsylvania anthracite fields. Again taking
to the canoe at the foot of the portage, one may drift lazily down the
bosom of the Peace, past the historic site of old Fort Dunvegan,

A Trapper’s Cabin

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