commercially o Under this process, 36 sectional tracings, reduced from 



the Forest Resovirces Inventory planimetric base maps to the scale of 



one-half mile to the inch, to be used as Crown land plans, were completed* 



A summary of the dry process material used as follows i 



Black and blue line paper prints - 201,892 square feet 

 Transparent linen duplicates - ^,380 square feet 

 Opaque linen printing - 3,890 square feet 



Total - 210,162 square feet 



Eighteen thousand photostat pages of very old field notes were 

 bound into 225 field note books ♦ Field notes of 27 current surveys and 

 two volumes of instructions to surveyors were also bound. In addition to 

 this, approximately 100 miscellaneous books or volumes of various types 

 were bouQd or repaired for the various divisions of the Department, The 

 reproduction of and reference to original survey records continued to be 

 a major item due to the heavy demand by the public, land surveyors in 

 private practice, the Department of Highways and the Ontario Hydro-Electric 

 Power Commission, Twenty-five field note books of Crown surveys and two 

 sets of munic|)al survey field note books as well as 96 Crown survey plans 

 and 26 municipal stirvey plans were registered, catalogued and filed, A 

 less complicated and more efficient system of cataloguing rolled plans has 

 been inaugurated. Catalogue sheets have been prepared for 1,636 plans and 

 7,600 csirds have been filed under this revised system, A card index system 

 has been prepared to record surveyed parcels under the surveyor's designa- 

 tion number. Six hundred and fifty recently s\irveyed parcels were recorded 

 in addition to others transferred from old records. Four hundred and 

 seventy-five plans of survey and 2h field note books comprising four reels 

 of 35 nmi negative microfilm and 10^ reels of positive microfilm were com- 

 pleted this year. 



In continuing the programme of the preservation of old original 

 survey plans, two of the old Upper Canada partial plan volumes comprising 

 approximately 250 plans and kO descriptions were remounted by a commercial 

 firm on individual boards with a cellulose wash finish applied to the 

 surface. These were re-indexed. An Historical Atlas and 39 old 

 miscellaneous survey plans were remounted. Approximately 300 reproductions 



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