Fish Stories Fish Stories Reford Gardens
Owning a river meant protecting it. Even though he had left Canada for England in the 1890s, Lord Mount Stephen continued to own and manage the Metis River. […]
Percy Nobbs was a Montreal architect and professor of architecture – best known today for the building on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal that is now the McCord Museum. […]
Robert Wilson Reford spent much of his youth in Little Metis, where his father built a large house overlooking the St. Lawrence River. When he married Elsie Reford […]
The flies in the collection of Les Amis des Jardins de Metis number in the hundreds. They are kept in the same boxes where they were placed more […]
The fragments of white shells and common mussel shells were found in the dig site where there were vestiges of fires and kitchen scraps. They provide an indication […]
Fishing on the Metis River was invariably done with two guides. Fishing was usually from canoes, requiring a guide in the bow and the stern to pole the […]
Logging was the enemy of salmon fishing. The logs jammed the river and left a heavy sludge of bark and refuse on the river bottom that often impeded […]
After the nationalization of the private electricity companies in the early 1960s, Hydro-Québec began efforts to restore salmon habitat on many rivers in Québec. The Metis River was […]
Salmon naturally swim to where the current is strongest. This makes them relative easy to capture. So strong is their instinct that they were often victims of their […]
This wooden panel is an outline of the largest fish ever caught on the Metis River. At 45 lbs and more than 45 inches in length, this exceptional […]
