12mo. 18cm, 68p., ads., with 16 plate illustrations from photographs, including frontis, illustrated wraps include ads., covers detached & taped, a very good copy, rare ~ Bruns p300, #99; Wetzel p177, no other standard references located. Fishing and hunting in the Lac Saint-Jean area of Quebec by the author of the classic freshwater salmon treatise "The Leaping Ouananiche" (1894). Wetzel suggests this is a 1903 reprint. Fishing areas include Lake Tschotagama and the Peribonca River; The Ouiatchouaniche and La Croche Rivers; The Ashuapmouchouan, Lac-a-Jim, and Fifth Falls, Mistassini River; La Metabetchouan; The Saguenay. With several transportation advertisements: The Ottawa & Gatineau Railway; Quebec & Lake St. John Railway.

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Title: A Tale of Lake St. John. Comprising a Bit of History; a Quantity of Facts; a Plenitude of Fish Stories
Publisher: Montreal. Desbarats & Co. N.d. c.[1903]
Binding: Soft cover

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J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc.
11 Murray St., Ottawa, ON, K1N 9M5, Canada

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