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ALGONQUIN PARK Part 2

HUNTING IN ALGONQUIN PARK Hunting pre-dates the birth of Algonquin National Park although wild game may not have been as abundant as it is to-day. The explorer David Thompson complained of a lack of wildlife in what we now regard as Algonquin Provincial Park. In 1893 when Peter Thompson assumed command he immediately recommended that […]

HENRY TAYLOR PART 12

Hunting Stories One night Exzbya Fronsway and John Prentice ( son of Michael ) went jacklighting for fresh venison on the Mississippi near Loney Chutes. When dawn arrived the hungry meat hunters went ashore for breakfast. Fronsway pulled the deer out of the canoe and skinned a hind leg and cut off a haunch of […]