TALLY OF WINTER HUNTS 1912-1914

MISTASSINI Indian  Robert Peetawabano, his wife and 12 year old son, his married son, Edward and his wife and infant were resident on their trapping lands for the winters of 1912-1913 and 1913 to 1914.

October 1, 1912 to May 31, 1913 Hunt Tally

• 430 pounds of moose meat
• 6,022 rabbits
• 7,300 fish
• 100 ptarmigan
• 59 beaver
• 53 marten
• 9 otters
• 26 muskrats
• 9 mink
• 10 ermine
• 40 ducks
• 3 black bear
• 18 loons

October 1, 1913 to May 31, 1914  Hunt Tally

• 3,306 fish
• 1,642 rabbits
• 67 beaver
• 8 otter
• 21 marten
• 4 mink
• 3 ermine
• 66 ptarmigan
• 140 ducks
• 3 owls
• 2 hawks
• 2 weenisk
• 1 red fox
• 2 yellowlegs
• 1 gull
• 2 caribou
• 3 black bear
• 55 muskrats

"Apart from marten, mink, ermine, and fox... everything else was eaten."

Fur Trader's Story, by J.W. Anderson, The Ryerson Press, Toronto 1961 page 102