The following special-use maps were produced at the 

 request of various Branches. 



One-Colour Bases: White River Administrative District; 

 Toronto Centered Region; Pembroke District Units; 

 Thunder Bay Administrative District; Lake Erie Blocks and 

 Tracts grid; and Maps for Public Hunting Areas booklet. 



Multi-Colour Maps: Hunting Regulation Summary; Map 

 for Beaver Colony booklet; North Georgian Bay Recreation 

 Reserve Land-Use; Ontario Map for Forest Industry folder; 

 Map for Moose Distribution booklet; and Map 56A 

 "Quetico Provincial Park". 



The Ontario Map Catalogue, listing all maps produced by 

 the various agencies within the Ontario Government, was 

 revised. 



LEGAL SURVEYS EXAMINATION 



Instructions for retracement, restoration and subdivision 

 surveys, to be performed both by departmental surveyors 

 and surveyors under contract, are prepared by this 

 Subsection. 



A responsibility of the Subsection is the examination of 

 compiled plans and plans of surveys required for the 

 alienation of Crown lands to ensure compliance with 

 departmental policy and statutes. These plans include those 

 of individual cottage lots, commercial and industrial 

 locations, water lots, and Crown subdivisions. 



Returns from surveys, performed under instructions 

 such as restoration, retracement and municipal surveys not 

 required for the alienation of Crown land, were examined 

 for compliance with statutes and instructions. 



Staff field surveyors, located at Tweed and Parry Sound, 

 carried out surveys for administrative purposes. These 

 included those required in the determination of encroach- 

 ments on Crown lands and the resolution of problem 

 situations resulting from ambiguous wording of former 

 Crown grants, as well as inspection, park boundary and 

 improvement, and other miscellaneous surveys. 



A township boundary maintenance program was 

 developed for northern Ontario with funds available 

 through the Ontario Seasonal Employment Program, as an 

 adjunct to the existing resurvey (retracement) program. In 

 three months, 174 miles of township boundary were 

 re-opened. 



Under a cost-sharing agreement with the federal 

 government, a geodetic survey project was carried out in 

 the Barrie-Orillia-Midland-Bradford area (BOMB). It was to 

 provide additional horizontal and vertical survey control in 

 the northern portion of the Toronto Centred Region. 



In agreement with the Province of Quebec, surveys were 

 undertaken to enable restoration of monuments on the 

 portion of the Ontario-Quebec boundary between Lake St. 

 Francis and the Ottawa River. 



THE ONTARIO GEOGRAPHIC NAMES BOARD 



During the 1971-2 fiscal period, the Board (through its 

 Secretariat) edited 71 maps and charts. For purposes of 

 map and chart compilation and revision this included the 

 up-dating of (a) existing geographical nomenclature with 

 the addition of new names, or, alternatively, deletion 

 (based on Board decisions sanctioned by Minister) of 

 inaccurate or otherwise unacceptable names; (b) changes in 

 name application (i.e. transfer of a name from a former 

 place, e.g. railway station to that of an adjacent and 

 associated place, e.g. community); (c) orthography based 

 on linguistic norms; (d) choice of official language in 

 bilingual regions where only one can be used; (e) provision 

 of data on name origins; (f) information on the status of 



municipal and other legal territorial divisions associated 

 with place names; (g) more accurate cartographic 

 positioning of names relative to places or features 

 designated; and (h) more precise fixing of the same 

 geographical features and places in terms of geographical 

 co-ordinates. 



In an expanding field of national and international 

 research in toponymy, the OGNB continues to play an 

 active and significant part. With reference to recent national 

 problems of bilingualism in map production, the OGNB 

 assumed a decisive role following appointment in May, 

 1971, of the Board Secretary as Chairman of the CPCGN 

 Subcommittee for the Study of a National Policy for 

 Geographical Names on Canadian Maps. 



Other papers dealing with hitherto unresolved problems 

 in terminology, classification and questions of linguistic 

 priorities in toponymy were prepared by the Board 

 Secretary. These were (a) published by the InternaUonal 

 Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Laval University, and 

 (b) submitted for presentation in England at the Second 

 United Nations Conference on the Standardization of 

 Geographical Names, London, May, 1972. 



ENGINEERING SERVICES SECTION 



Engineering support continued to be supplied to head 

 office operating branches and districts in those aspects of 

 departmental programs requiring professional engineering, 

 application of engineering technology, and construction 

 expertise. 



CAPITAL WORKS AND 

 MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES 



Co-ordination and planning of the major capital works 

 program of the Department was effected through liaison 

 with the Department of Public Works, Treasury Board, and 

 affected branches, districts and regions. The projects 

 included a refrigerated seedling storage building at 

 Midhurst; a new aircraft hangar building at Sault Ste. Marie; 

 facilities for loading chemical fire retardants in aircraft at 

 various locations; flight operations accommodation at 

 Toronto International Airport; extensive renovations to the 

 Pembroke district office; regional office accommodations at 

 Richmond Hill and at Thunder Bay; and completion of an 

 office and shipping shed at the Thunder Bay nursery. 



Projects were funded for aviation gas and turbo fuel 

 installations; a cold storage building, a prefab office and a 

 warehouse extension; a trailer complex and camps, 

 including junior ranger camps; automafic fish feeders and 

 rearing ponds; floating docks; hose drying facilities; sewage 

 facilities; fencing; and renovations, rewiring and painting. 



IMPROVEMENTS TO FLOW CHANNELS 



Improvements to flow channels, by clearing debris and 

 floating bogs, and the dredging, widening and deepening of 

 flow channels was carried out to increase efficiency in 

 discharging water from Department-owned dams, to 

 improve flow between controlled waters, or to decrease 

 downstream flooding resulting from the Department's 

 operation of a dam. 



This year, improvements were undertaken at Pike Lake, 

 South Nation River, Skeleton River, Bernard Creek and 

 Snake River. 



INSPECTION 



Of the 265 Department owned and operated dams, 

 approximately 15 per cent were inspected. Reports were 



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