Chapleau Game Preserve: History, Murder and Other Tales includes a history of the fur trade in Northeastern Ontario in the first half of the last century. It moves on to accounts of six murders and a disappearance in the Chapleau area. The author recounts a number of anecdotes about the fur trade, his family connection with Grey Owl, a fur bootlegging trial, the forest fires of 1948, the opening of Highway 129 in 1949 and the Budd Car excursion between Sudbury and White River.