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and graded and 2 miles of it gravelled. 60 corrugated iron culverts were placed 

 where required during the season on this road. A deviation was made, commencing 

 at a point about II/4 miles west from Sundridge, on a road known as the " Distress 

 Road," running to the village of Magnetawan. 



On these various roads, $41,14:4.22 was expended. 



Algonquin Provincial Park — District of Nipissing. 



During the season of 1916 a road was cut and graded in the Algonquin Pro- 

 vincial Park from the Algonquin Park Station, Grand Trunk Eailway, northerly 

 to Minesing Camp, a summer resort on Island Lake, a distance of 11 miles. The 

 road became badly rutted owing to the fact that it had never been re-surfaced 

 with gravel. The country through which this road passes is rolling, stony, and 

 the soil a light sandy loam with small areas of clay soil in the swamps. When 



A Temiskaming settler's first home. 



the road was first constructed no gravel suitable for road purposes was available, 

 the only road material used being a light loam. The road passes through a densely 

 timbered section of the Park and the road originally was not cut out the usual 

 width as it was only used as a tourist road; consequently there was little chance 

 of the sun ever drying the road after the foilage came out. There is considerable 

 traffic over this road during the tourist season, and also in the winter season hauling 

 cord wood to the Eailway Station. 



During the season of 1918 the road was widened out in places, re-ditched 

 and re-graded for a distance of Sl/o niiles, and parts of the road surfaced with 

 gravel for a distance of 6I/2 miles. Owing to the very wet season and the difficulty 

 in getting gravel slow progress was made on this road. The road so far as it has 

 been completed is in a first class condition and is a very beautiful drive for tourists 

 through an almost virgin forest heavily timbered with maple, birch, beech and iron 

 wood. The road for several miles back from the Eailway Station can in the future 



