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built under the "the Rogers plan": the
pass is shown in red on the plan.
If the main dam above,
of only 5 feet to surmount, were made
accessible for fish get over, they
could pass up river to Walkerton
a distance of sixty miles without
any obstruction whatever: at Walkerton,
I was informed a dam covered the
whole width of the river; whether a
pass has been built in this dam
I cannot say: but should the
difficulty be overcome at Dennies
Dam, sixty miles of feeding, and
breeding ground would be thrown
open for all fish indigenous to the
stream; and thereby giving opportunity
for the inhabitants along the whole
extent of the 60 miles to partake of
the benefits fairly, and legitimately
due to them; but which by Dennies
Dam, and the insufficiency of the
fish-pass by wrong location, they
are now wholly debarred from
enjoying: -- and the Indians, and other
inhabitants living below Dennies
Dam, are permitted to kill, and
destroy, all fish which on their up-
ward migration from the Lake con-
gregate in great numbers below the dam, | 80
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built under the "the Rogers plan": the
pass is shown in red on the plan.
If the main dam above
if only 5 feet to surmount, were made
accessible for fish get over, they
could pass up river to Walkerton
a distance of sixty miles without any obstruction whatever: at Walkerton, I was informed a dam covered the whole width of the river; whether a pass has been built in this dam I cannot say: but should the difficulty be overcome at Dennies Dam, sixty miles of feeding and breeding ground would be thrown open for all fish indigenous to the stream; and thereby giving opportunity for the inhabitants along the whole extent of the 60 miles to partake of the benefits fairly, and legitimately due to them; but which by Dennies Dam, and the insufficiency of the fish-pass by wrong location, they are now wholly debarred from enjoying: --and the Indians, and other inhabitants living below Dennies Dam, are permitted to kill, and destroy, all fish which on their upward migration from the Lake congregate in great numbers below the dam, which it is said they cannot surmount only exceptional times of great freshets.
In conclusion I have to state that, in my opinion the present fish-pass ???? its location is useless. As a means of giving freedom for fish to pass up the Saugeen River beyond Dennies Dam. [Salutation]
If the main dam above
of only 5 feet to [surmount
?] [?] make
[?] for fish to [?] over they
could pass up [?] to [Walkerton?]
a distance of sixty miles without
any obstruction whatever: at [Walkerton?]
I was informed a dam covered the
whole width of the river whether a
pass has been built in this dam
I cannot say but should the
difficulty be overcome at [?]
dam sixty miles of feeding and
breeding found would be thrown
open for all fish indigenous to the
stream and thereby giving opportunity
for the inhabitants along the whole
[?] of the 60 miles to partake of
the benefits family and legitimately
due to them; but which by [?]
dam and the insufficiency of the
fish-pass by wrong locations they
are now wholly debarred from
enjoying and the Indians and other
inhabitants living below [Dennies?]
dam are permitted to kill [and?]
[?] all fish which on their up -
[ward?] migration from the lake [con?] -
[gregate?] in great numbers below the
dam. |
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