CANADIAN LAKE MONSTER IS OBJECT OF TERROR TO INDIANS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6807, 10 January 1929, Page 2

CANADIAN LAKE MONSTER IS OBJECT OF TERROR TO INDIANS

Far iu its hinterland, where white men seldom disturb the solitude, Ontario has a sea monster. It specialises in frightening the wits out of Indians. Its home is a lake' off the Dog Fiver, inland from Michipicoten. The story has been brought to Toronto by Dr. Ludlow Weeks, member of a Federal geological survey party which has just come out of the Michipicoten territory after four and a-half months' work. The tale of wonder was told him by an Indian, George Andre, native of the district.

“Andre is just an Indian,’’ said Dr. Weeks. “He lives in the country like the rest of the Indians. Some years ago, according to his story to me this summer, he was with hiso wife—l’m not sure whether it was the one he’s married to, or the other one —on this little lake off Dog Fiver. They were in a canoe.

“Suddenly the monster rose to the surface near his boat. With a mighty swish it created a wave that overwashed his craft and swamped it. Andre had some difficulty in saving his wife and himself, and there is now not enough money in all Canada to induce him to go back there. “He gave a detailed description of the monster. It is of a battle grey colour and about twenty feet long. He knew of no object by which he could illustrate its shape, but with a stick ho drew a figure in the mud for me. What

he drew was an elongated figure not unlike a gigantic torpedo, tho marine projectile used to sink ships during tho war. From what he told me its method of locomotion and its speed are also like a torpedo. It ciUs through the water at a tremendous rate and appears to dislike disturbance of its native waters. Dr. Weeks said that he spoko to another Indian, upon a later occasion,, about this deniezn of the northern lake, and the story was confirmed. This Indian also told of having seen the big fish, small whale, or modern acquatic dragon, whatever it may be.