Don
Cournoyea Collection
Peterborough
Examiner,
30
October 1909
PETERBOROUGH’S
DEER HUNTERS OFF TO THEIR FAVOURITE TRAILS
Will
be ready for the Opening of the Season on Monday Morning – Where Local
Enthusiasts Will Follow the Monarchs of the Forest
Monday,
the first of November is the official opening of the deer shooting season
which will be ushered in with the baying of hounds and reechoing rifle reports
in the unbroken wilds of the northern country. Peterborough’s sporting
fraternity have been leaving in groups during the past few days and by
to-night they will all be gone. A long cold drive and a rest to-morrow in
preparation for an early start on Monday morning and then with the dawn of the
morrow the curtain will be wrung up. The weather is inviting and the prospects
are of the best. The nights, however, are too cold, and in consequence the
creeks and bays of the lakes are frozen up every morning, and it is said the
ice has not disappeared before the noon-day sun. A little finer weather and
the conditions could not be improved upon.
Battle
Lake Party
One
of the happiest parties that leave Peterborough is that which makes its
headquarters on the shore of Battle Lake. It is composed on Dr C.H. Amys,
Messrs Gus Corcoran, M. O’Brien, Arthur Head, J.E.A. Fitzgerald, M. Blewett,
W. Weatherlake, and J. Stabler. They not only have plenty of sport but their
evenings are spent pleasantly and as a male chorus they would do credit to a
Schubert production. Battle Lake still re-echoes with last year’s favourite,
"Every Little Bit Added, etc." and this hist will be one of the most
popular of the party’s rather limited repertoire.
Mr
J.B. Laroque has gone to Parry Sound where he will hunt with a Toronto party.
They still go in for big game and all guesses are wrong if "Bat"
does not bring down a moose.
Ketchum
Lake
Up
on the shore of Ketchecum Lake there is a cosy lodge which has accommodated
the usual party on many previous occasions, and will again be the mecca of a
number of the "bunch." Among those who went back this year are
Messrs G.W. Morrow, W.T. Hall, L. Hall, E.F. Mason, R. Munro, R. Gibbs, G.W.
Burnett and R. Stuart.
Eastwood
Party
Messrs
W. Long, C. Harkimey, F. Sargent, H. Brundrette, T. Eastwood, and I. Eastwood
left last night for Stoney Creek and expect to bring home as many of the
antlered family as the law allows.
The
Gladman Ray party and the R. Neill party will hunt in the Parry Sound
district. They are no on their way to their favourite hunting grounds.
To
Eagle Lake
Messrs
Chas. Gunsolus, C. West, B. White, A.G. Carruthers, C. Gunn, and C. Mitchell,
of the Eagle Lake Hunt Club left shortly after six o’clock this morning for
Eagle Lake, where they will deer hunt for the next two weeks.
The
following licenses for deer hunting have been issued by Col. Miller. Wm.
Tedford, Jos. Tedford, R. Tedford, R. Hamblin, Steven Miller, Warsaw; J.
Heskett, Lambton; J.M. Bradley, N.H. Bradley, Smith; L. Fife, Otonabee; R.
Neill, G. Coleman, G.W. Henderson, Chas. Gladman, P.A. Kerr, S. Ray, T. Best,
J. Bennett, N. Barnard, J.D. Collins, Robert Munroe, R. Waddell, W.H. Stroud;
R.H. Jackson, F. Brownscombe, John Brightman, Andy Miller, Wm. Gill, Matthew
Lambe, Peterborough; Arthur Hendren, R. Bell, Warsaw; C. Curtis, A.E. Curtis,
J.H. Maybee, R. Haw, Robert A. Miller, C. Norslick, H. Larocque, B. O’Dette,
M. McFadden, J.S. Waldron, George Metcalfe, D. Evans, J.G. Bothwell, W.
Bothwell, G. Morrow, J.A. Morrow, Peterborough; N.J. Curtis, Northumberland;
G. Bull, A. Bull, George Hooey, H.C. Winch, E.F. Mason, Wm. J. Miller, Amos
Sherin, Frank Sherin, Lewis Fowler, Chas. Butcher and A.G. Carruthers.
[This item appeared in Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley
(November 2001)]
