Rebindings 



Patent References 27 



Field notes 42 



Total 69 



Miscellaneous 



Documents and pages laminated 2,840 



Other 22 



Crown Survey Records 



The use of original Crown Survey Records for reproduction or reference 

 purposes by the survey branches of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of 

 Ontario, the Ontario Department of Highways, Ontario Land Surveyors in private 

 practice and the general public, continues to increase. 



One thousand, five hundred and fourteen (1,514) cards were typed covering 

 plans being recatalogued and filed in the Survey Record Catalogue. In addition, 

 527 entries were made in the Surveyor's designation number card index of surveyed 

 parcels, including change of file numbers. The returns of surveys of 73 plans of 

 subdivisions made for summer resort purposes and 167 plans of miscellaneous 

 surveys consisting of the surveys of pipe line right-of-ways, composite plans, 

 retracement resurveys made on Crown Lands, individual summer resort location 

 surveys, as well as 29 books of field notes were registered, catalogued and filed. 

 Field notes showing the location of, and type of monument used to restore 218 

 points of the original Crown survey fabric, were filed. 



The refiling of all plans of surveys, with the exception of the plans of surveyed 

 mining claims presently filed on current correspondence files, into the vertical filing 

 system, was continued this fiscal year. Approximately 44,010 flat, current corre- 

 spondence files were examined. Approximately 11,413 plans of surveys, descrip- 

 tions, field notes and affidavits were removed and refiled into the vertical filing 

 system. This required the typing of approximately 4,876 filing labels which was 

 done partly by the summer casual help and partly by the full time staff. All survey 

 record material removed from the files was microfilmed. 



Certain records, considered to be of enduring value, were transferred to the 

 Department of Public Records and Archives for permanent retention and preser- 

 vation. These consisted of the original Indian Treaty No. 9, the James Bay Treaty 

 1905-6, along with the adhesions dated 1929; an original map of Lake Huron 

 dated 1788 believed to have been prepared by Patrick McNiff, Deputy Surveyor, 

 from the notes of Lieut. Bennet, 8th Regiment, Detroit and a manuscript volume 

 containing "Accounts of the Board of Examiners of Provincial Land Surveyors for 

 Upper Canada and Ontario 1856 to 1868." 



Survey Party Equipment 



Four field survey parties under staff surveyors, carrying out summer resort 

 location subdivision surveys, park, inspection, retracement and other miscellaneous 

 surveys, were supplied and equipped for field work. Four 450-link chains were 

 purchased for field use. 



Survey monuments to cover the survey program were distributed to various 

 district offices for the use of Ontario Land Surveyors on the staff, or in private 

 practice who were making retracement surveys, individual or subdivision surveys 

 for summer resort purposes on Crown Land under instructions from the Depart- 



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