lorries to Fort St. James, while Fort Babine was supplied
by pack-train from Hazelton, though the Burns Lake—
Donald Landing route and scows on Babine Lake offers an
easier route.

Fort St. James, in addition to the buildings already
mentioned, has an Indian village, picturesque lake-side
clusters of log houses, with a church as the dominating
structure, and several houses of traders and packers.
A number of settlers are pioneering in contiguous areas,
including some Esthonians who came to colonize in 1923.
The Hudson’s Bay Company has limited accommodation
for travellers, and in summer Douglas Lodge, built simi-
larly on a smaller scale to the tourist resort at Jasper,
offers accommodation. There are several motor-boats,
and a packer tows scows over the lake and river system,
serving stores at the mouth of Tachie River and on Takla
Lake, camps and Indian villages. There are interesting
villages at Pinchi and Tachie, at river-mouth, and at
Nancut, whence the old wagon-road runs to Babine Lake.
The old portage warehouse stands near there abandoned.
A fish-hatchery operates on a stream entering at Nancut.
In addition to the water route to Takla Landing connect-
ing with the Hazelton—Babine-Omineca Trail, trails to
Manson Creek run from Fort St. James and pack-trains
operate. Guides and horses for hunters and others can
be obtained at Fort St. James and Takla Landing store.

On Babine Lake there are comparatively few residents
other than Indians, with main village at Fort Babine, north
end of the lake; another at Old Fort, about 28 miles
away on a point of land north of 55th parallel, with some
scattered houses in vicinity; some at Tachek, at mouth of
Fulton River, and Donald Landing, at end of Burns Lake
Road. - Supplies for Hudson’s Bay Company are drawn by
pack-train from Hazelton. Several motor-boats operate
on the lake. In addition to the wagon-road, Nancut to
Babine Portage, trails lead from Wright Bay to Trembleur
Lake, and the Hazelton—Manson Trail runs from the lake-
head to and across Takla Lake.

Until the Canadian National Railway was built Stuart
River was used, but is used now only by an occasional
hunter or trapper and for taking motor-launches to Stuart
Lake for use there. With the removal, which could be
done with comparatively little difficulty, of some impedi-
ments in Chinlak Rapids, stern-wheel or other shallow-
draught steamers could provide transportation facilities
over several hundred miles of connective lake and river
system. On Trembleur Lake is the remains of the steamer
“Enterprise,” which in 1871 voyaged from Soda Creek via
the rivers and lakes to Takla Lake. Miners preferring the
trail route, its operation was unsuccessful, the steamer was
abandoned, and Indians, through the years, broke up the
hull and took the iron until now only the rusted boiler is
seen. Motor-launches from Fort St. James take 20-ton

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