The Unexploited West: A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern CanadaChambers, Ernest J.
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The Unexploited West: A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada
Chambers, Ernest J.
Canada -- Economic conditions; Northwest, Canadian -- Economic conditions
I found a strip of good timber, consisting of spruce and tamarack six to
ten inches in diameter, about half a mile wide and extending three to
four miles in length on the east side, between the southern ridge of
Churchill peninsula and the bay, and about three miles south of
Churchill. At the head of Button bay (and parallel with it), there are a
number of parallel ridges extending to North river. These ridges are
timbered with spruce and tamarack four to ten inches in diameter. Close
to North river there is a good spruce timber ten to thirty inches in
diameter in small scattered bunches, covering a distance of about four
miles. At the southern end of the south ridge of the western peninsula
at Churchill, there is a strip of good spruce timber, six to twelve
inches in diameter, extending about two miles by four miles; also on the
east side of the same ridge about one and one-third miles south of
Mosquito point, there is a strip of good timber for a distance of about
four miles.
“Between December 7, 1906, and December 17, 1906, I made an exploration
of the country between Churchill and Owl rivers. Four miles from
Churchill river in a southerly direction I crossed a ridge, running in a
northeast and southwest direction at about one and one-half miles from
Hudson bay, extending opposite to Mosquito point. From the point of
crossing to the bay, on the sunny side, the ridge is well timbered with
spruce six to twelve inches in diameter. Twenty-five miles from the
starting point, I crossed another sandy ridge with scrubby timber. Two
miles west of this point there is a barren hill known as White mountain,
three hundred feet in height by one mile in length. At the eastern woods
there are a few square miles of spruce and tamarack averaging six to
eight inches in diameter. Close to White Whale lake I crossed another
gravel ridge having no timber. On each side of Salmon creek there are
scrubs, willows and small spruce, with grassy meadows. At Broad river to
the left of the place of crossing, for about four miles there is a strip
of timber one-third of a mile in width, eight to fourteen inches in
diameter, consisting of stunted black spruce.”
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