The mapping was completed on a scale of one-half mile to an 

 Inch of the area between latitudes 50** 30* and 52** 00« from the Quebec 

 boundary to longitude 88*, having an area of ^1,700 square miles. The 

 photography and mapping of an area of 16,000 square miles on a scale of one 

 quarter mile to an Inch, which had been contracted was also completed* 



Mosaic panels, seven and one-half minutes In latitude sind fifteen 

 minutes In longitude have been prepared of the southern portion of the 

 Province. An area of nine thousand, three hundred square miles has been 

 completed. While these panels are prepared primarily to obtain the forest 

 resources, they su:e being used In land use planning and the development of 

 all natural resources* 



Vertical Photography Area Square Miles 



Forest Resources Inventory 8,333 



Flood damaged area and other Departments 717 



9,050 



?^PP;i,ng Square MjL^eff 



Planlmetrlc - scale ^0 chains • 1 Inch ^1,670 



Mosaic Panels - scale 20 chains ■ 1 Inch 9>300 



Total Aerial Photography and Sketching by 

 Department from 192^- to March 3lst, 1955 

 (does not Include areas photographed by contract) 



Aerial Sketching „■. — ^■»,., — .- — «,„ — .-— . 26,903 square miles 



Oblique Photography —— ^«^— — — — m.«. 10,780 " " 



Vertical Photography »^-...-.,».^- — .^^^,»«.. . .> « 168, 78^- " " 



ENGINEERING 



During the year plans of 19 dams to be constructed for timber 

 operations, storage reservoirs, conservation and diversion of streams were 

 examined and approved^ Licences of Occupation were Issued for 6 dams to be 

 used to provide storage reservoirs for power developments. 



Two new Water Power Lease Agreements were prepared and Issued 

 for leases which had expired during the year. 



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