LIFE AND SPORT ON THE NORTH SHORE OF THE LOWER ST. LAWRENCE AND GULF: containing chapters on salmon fishing, trapping, the folk-lore of the Montagnais Indians and tales of adventure on the fringe of the Labrador Peninsula. By Napoleon A. Comeau.

(1909) 1954 3rd edition. 8vo (150 x 220mm). Pp440. B/w photograph plates, map, vignette illustrations. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt title and vignette in ruled frame on upper board.

"Not the least charm of Mr Comeau's volume lies in the fact that it is a sane and instructive recital of fifty years' work for humanity and science in one of the least known but most interesting sections of Northern Canada". Chapters include: Early life; My return from school; 'Unaccountables' and other shots; Shooting accidents; Appointed Guardian of Godbout; I commence trapping; Trapping lynx; Beaver; Marten and other small mammals; Pennant's Marten, or Fisher; Bear stories; Poachers; A true ghost story; Seals and seal shooting on the St. Lawrence; An old-time caribou hunt; A tragedy on the North Shore; On angling; The salmon and its migrations; Lost in the wilderness; The death of Robitaille; Major Hy. Scott and how he lost his cane; Across the St. Lawrence; Our return journey; Shoulder blade reading; Duck shooting; Goose shooting; A little swan shoot; Grouse and other land birds; Some easy ways of getting birds; An Indian's opinion of Sir Edmund Head; The Great Horned Owl; Three Golden Eagles; A short and easy wolf hunt; Easy wolf hunt in Wyoming; Charles Moreau; Dr. W.H. Drummond; Mail service; What is a sea trout?; A lucky cast; Salmon rivers; Salmon records on our best rivers; Salmon records on the St. John; Salmon records on the Moisie; Salmon records on Trout River; Fifty years' salmon on the Godbout; Bird list.