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continued from page 2 Another time when travelling late from Nipigon some wolves were spotted sitting on or stand- ing upon the roadside snow banks at Cavers, as if watching traffic going by- the car lights made Page 10, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, September 23, 1987 Anne Todesc their eyes shine so they were easy to spot. What's missing from our area now are the caribou that used to live on the islands. When I first came up to the Sa :. 1 8 , & ays Nominations should include a resume and must be in before November 1, 1987. SEND TO: NOMINATIONS for Schreiber's "CITIZEN OF THE YEAR" ° "are now being accepted. Mr. M.L. Cosgrove Reeve Township of Schreiber P.O. Box 40 Schreiber, Ontario POT 2S0 "1. WE KEEP YOU INFORMED | d | The News keeps you up to date on what's pappediog in the community. From the police blotter S. to the town council agenda. From births to deat a forum for the discussion of issues that are im veek by letting you know what's on sal paper right in. your mailbox every week wit every week 2. FREE CLASSIFIED ADS. - bonus this month As a special is $12.50. 3. MONEY SAVING COUPONS a ith vour coupons for the classified ad : coupons redeemable at stores in Terrace Bay and Schreiber to help you save money and to thank you for becoming a s Along with North Shore area of Lake Superior in the early '20s, caribou were quite plentiful. They were a popular game animal with the Americans. What a graceful mov- ing animal, with their heads held high, supporing their beautiful rack of antlers. Large boats or a tug would freight the victims of the hunters' rifles to harbours to be shipped home. The boat decks looked as if they were loaded with antlers. As for enjoying a caribou steak, I was never fond of it as I thought it tasted mossy. . One year, one of these animals crossed from the mainland to. 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Please send me my free coupons and enter my name in your draw. | 5 4 i i Name twee years 25 PSG Fo Only $23 i -- Address our best offer i I LJ) One year i.e. ieee are aie $14 i § Postal code '| Payment enclosed F ae Cheques, money orders payable to the 4 - bb cc arog Terrace Bay-Schreiber News. |. - Terrace Bay Schreiber 3 : , : i 3 § i : Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT 2W0 (Simcoe Plaza) i --_---- SS le es and we save you money " By subscribing to the News, you will receive your out. win a draw for a weekend in Thunder play at the Community Auditorium 7), two nights accomodation at the Valhalla Inn two at the spectacular, country-vogue Neebing harbour with their day's catch of . trout, but the caribou appeared quite unconcerned by their arrival. In 1915, times were hard because of the first World War. The snow was very deep that year. A herd of caribou started to migrate from the Pays Plat Lake area to cross to the islands but became stuck in the deep snow, The Pays Plat and Rossport homes had plenty of fresh meat for the winter as the story goes; about 30 of the animals were shot- wolves even got into the fray. The humans salted, dricd, cooked and froze the meat. Reports on this episode are in the District Officer's (forester) files. Another story on the migration of caribou to the islands was when my brother was travelling east along the old highway route See ee wy wee Oe Fee ble ee ee ee | +St- ov OS 09 ORR pee Se ee ee Cre Ante ne eS EDD RG 6 9 ae Sy ge torte we tibealin ap hee te ta te eM Mg as Salters. 0 anticipates the coming hunting season at Sand Lake sometime in the 4 when he had to stop his car at herd of caribou were crossing | road and milling about enroute crossing to the islands in i. Supcrior, In the 1860s, '70s and '8I Surveyors and explorers hunt in the Rossport and Pays pl areas for fresh meat for 'hz co Struction crews. ] ' Two Fench chaps were sent hunt for fresh meat on the islan¢ The went to Salter Island. 7 story goes that the two became lost in a snowstorm; th came up and they lost their be ings and kept going about in ¢ cles until they realized that th were passing, while tracking caribou, a conspicuous rock ve several times; hence, the origi name for the island was Vi Island; later changed to Sal Island as the fish packers knoy Packing plant y There was a fish packing pl on the Northwest side of island where the fish were pack in a brine of salty water in w en kegs and barrels to be coll ed twice a year when schoo: and sidewheelers were used pick up the fish for eastern kets. : q That was before the rail was completed; then the fj would be packed in ice to k them fresh- very little salted went to markets once the raii was in operation. 4 One of the last salters was man known as. Chum MacDonald. One of the points this island, also the bay, named after him- Chumm Point and Chummy's Bay. i In the late 1800s, explor and surveyors stopped. here hunt caribou, deer, and moo. salt or pickle it in brine to repl ish their food supply. Among the first white p to reach our shores were t Jesuit Priests, Fathers Char Renault and Rev. Isaac Jacq who worked among the India and white settlers, Many Rossportites hunted trapped our animals do through the years in the a including the island. An eccentric old trapper ble in here one fall and decided winter on St. Ignace Island. His name was Ecker Recters. He cached his food trees that he had covered the ba of the trunk with tin or zinc keep animals from climbing } trees after his food packed in can vaas bags. : He sealed in the front of | small cave to live in and use wood as fuel to keep warm. We enjoyed his yarns abou secing wolverines, packs 9 wolves and a tame fox that woiii come to the cave looking fa handouts. He told of planes arriving fi across the border and Canada hunting moose, deer or caribot out of season. : They only took the four quar ters of the animals home, thu Icaving liver, tongues; and I wai told that caribou had been import ed to the north end of Lake Nipigon but I just couldn't under. stand why as they were alway, there. I cannot remember the tim period this was done if a true story. I understood that they wer woodland Caribou. I belicve that an odd one of two are still spotted north of the railway or on an island. : continued on page 12