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Through the Mackenzie Basin

by Charles Mair

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Chapter V Resources of Lesser Slave Lake Region

Indian lunatics: The Weeghteko—Treatment of lunatics in old Upper Canada—Lesser Slave Lake fisheries—Stock-raising at the lake—Prairies of the region—The region once a buffalo country—Quality of the soil—Wheat and roots and vegetables—Unwise to settle in large numbers in the country at present—The “blind pig”—A native row.

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