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Date: 1914
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  1. 1
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    Library / National Library Collections
    Item ID number:
    53645987
    Jones, J. Walter 1878-1954. (John Walter),
    [Ottawa] :Commission on Conservation,1914 [1914]
  2. 2
    No digital object
    Library / National Library Collections
    Item ID number:
    796954131
    Jones, J. Walter 1878-1954. (John Walter),
    Ottawa :Mortimer,1914. [1914]
  3. 3
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26665
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-bearing animals during winter, and in summer some families fish for cod and hunt seals. Buildings. - Most of the Indians occupy very comfortable houses 
  4. 4
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26655
    Year:
    1914
    ... Fur-bearing animals are plentiful and the prices paid for fur are very remunerative. One instance came to our notice where an Indian of Lac Seul received 
  5. 5
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26692
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur trade throughout the agency has been good this winter, fox being especially plentiful, and prices high. The catch of silver and black foxes has been 
  6. 6
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26666
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-bearing animals and game is their only resource. There are no other occupations in this vicinity of which they could avail themselves, even the whites 
  7. 7
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26670
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-farming industry, a change has been brought about in the method of hunting. Where formerly many a fur-bearing animal would be snared or shot, now it is 
  8. 8
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26703
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur hunt continues productive and profitable, while in certain localities the income of the Indians was augmented to an extraordinary degree through the 
  9. 9
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26439
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur have steadily increased, and the catch has not perceptibly diminished. Considerable interest is manifested in the raising of foxes for breeding purposes 
  10. 10
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26735
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur, etc. - are rapidly disappearing. Fur prices were disappointingly low, and it may be said that Indians in the remotest parts of Canada have felt the 
  11. 11
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26684
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur catch was fair and the prices fair. This reserve is about twenty miles away from the Hudson Bay railway and for the past two years the young men have 
  12. 12
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26723
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-trapping, which apparently grows more precarious every year; the spread of mining operations drives the game and fur-bearing animals from the country 
  13. 13
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26721
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-bearing animals in this section of the country, the Indians will probably wish to take up cattle-raising and other agricultural pursuits, and I would 
  14. 14
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26661
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur will make great hardship in the population. The Indians of the Escoumains reserve seem more civilized than those at Bersimis. Most of them speak French 
  15. 15
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26686
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur, and the average earnings for the year would not be more than $100 to the family. These Indians are too close to whisky to make much headway, Letellier 
  16. 16
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26445
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur trade; the European market for furs has disappeared for the time being. Under these conditions the results of the hunt, upon which so many of our 
  17. 17
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26685
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur-bearing animals and the prices realized and in view of the fact that the Indian, too, has been contending with the increased cost of living and 
  18. 18
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26683
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur not so plentiful as usual. I inspected the Shoal River reserve on July 14, and found little, if any, change since my last report. These Indians live 
  19. 19
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26722
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur the preceding winter, and most of the Indians felt very prosperous and considered it beneath their dignity to work. However, by threatening not to give 
  20. 20
    2 digital object(s)
    Library / Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864 to 1990
    Item ID number:
    26714
    Year:
    1914
    ... fur has been high in price and it is more congenial to most of these Indians to follow the chase than to farm. The demand of late for live foxes has been 
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