Word: saguenay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those interested in fishing, who are tired of the Adirondacks, New Hampshire, and Maine, I would say a few words, merely as a suggestion, about salmon fishing in the small rivers emptying into the Saguenay...
Leaving the bright-roofed city of Quebec, the steamboat takes us down the St. Lawrence to Tadousac, one of the oldest French settlements in Canada. Here we transfer our provisions and rods to the smaller boat which plies between the mouth of the Saguenay and Ha-Ha Bay, - a charming trip, by the way, - passing Cape Eternity and overhanging Trinity opposite. All the way up the river we see at frequent intervals the mouths of tributaries. These small rivers are leased by the government for from five to twenty years to private parties for fishing purposes...