Flocks of Wild Fowl That Obscure the Sky.—Six Species of Seal in Hudson Bay.—Stocked with Animals of Various Kinds.—White Fish Abound in Most of the Lakes and Streams.—Saw Eleven Moose in One Day.—The Commercial Value of the Sturgeon Fisheries.—Future Summer Playgrounds.—Barren Lands Caribou at Churchill. 88 CHAPTER VI. NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN.—Agriculture and Arable Land. An Early Scientific Explorer’s Enthusiastic Description of Part of the Country.—“Capable of Any Extent of Cultivation.”—An Old Hudson’s Bay Company Official Who Considered it “A Splendid Country to Settle in.”—Mr. Crean Reports That “It is No Experiment” to Raise Wheat in North Saskatchewan.—Missionary Farmers and Their Accomplishments.—Capable of Supporting “A Dense, Thriving Population.”—“A Splendid Ranching Country.”—Heaviest Rains Just When They Are Needed. 95 CHAPTER VII. NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN.—Tree Growth and Timber Resources. A Rare Bit of Sylvan Beauty.—Ash-Leaved Maples Successfully Grown From Seed.—Notes By the Way on Available Water Powers.—Much Country Covered with Small Timber Not Generally of Commercial Value.—Some Areas of Good Timber Which Will be Invaluable To the Settlers. 117 CHAPTER VIII. NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN.—Economic Minerals. Large Amount of Iron Ore In the Northeastern Corner of The Region, On The North Eastern Side of Lake Athabaska.—Indications Favourable For the Discovery of Coal.—Nickel and Traces of Cobalt on Reindeer Lake.—Medicinal Waters.—Bituminous Springs and Pit Coal on Cree River.—Tar Sands Near Buffalo Lake. 124 CHAPTER IX. NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN.—Game, Fur-bearing Animals and Fish. “So Fine a Country For The Chase That It May Be Regarded As An Extensive Preserve.”—The Wood Buffalo Used To Roam Over It, But Do Not Now.—Moose and Caribou Plentiful.—The Indians Kill The Moose For Their Hides.—Fish of Various Kinds in Abundance.—Sturgeon That Weigh A Hundred Pounds.—One Indian Killed Eighteen Moose During One Season. 127 CHAPTER X. NORTHERN ALBERTA.—Agriculture and Arable Land in the Eastern Section of “Athabaska Country.” A Section of The West Where Officials of the Hudson’s Bay Company Were Directed to Cultivate Gardens.—Some Points Where Wheat has been Grown, Including the Sample Which Took First Prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.—Crude Indian Gardens at Cowpar Lake.—Livestock Grazing Out in December and January. 131 CHAPTER XI.