Thirty-nine (39) "Litho-line" transparent reproductions reduced 

 to one-half scale from the Forest Resources Inventory Planimetric base maps 

 on the departmental format were obtained during the year from a commercial 

 firm» This method eliminates the preparation of the base drawing > by handi 

 of the Crown Land sectional tracings on the scale of one-half mile to the 

 inch* 



Some five thousand (5>000) photostatic copies of pages of the 

 oldest field note books were bound into approximately one hundred and fifty 

 (150) individual field note books. In addition, twenty-seven (27) field 

 note books of current surveys and approximately one hundred and five (105) 

 volxames of various types were bound or repaired for various sections of 

 this Division, the Conservation Information Section of the Division of 

 Operation and Personnel and the Patents Branch of the Division of Lands* 



The reference to, and reproduction of original Crown Survey 

 Records, plans and field notes by the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commis- 

 sion and the Department of Highways' survey sections, as well as by Ontario 

 Land Surveyors in private practice and the general public, continued to be 

 a major item* Three (3) sets of field notes of Municipal Surveys, twenty- 

 six (26) field note books of Crown Surveys^ as well as ninety (90) Crown 

 Survey plans and three (3) municipal survey plans, were catalogued and filed* 

 Catalogue sheets for one thousand and ninety- three (1,093) plans wera 

 written and some three thousand one hundred (3,100) catalogue cards were 

 typed covering the re-indexing and cataloguing of the rolled plans of survey* 

 Nearly fifteen hundred (1500) entries were made, of designation numbers of 

 surveyed parcels, into the card filing system* Six hundred and eighty (68O) 

 plans of survey and one hundred and sixty-seven (16?) field note books, as 

 well as forty-one (^-1) volumes of Crown Instructions for surveys, were micro- 

 filmed in negative form diiring the year and thirty-five (35) reels of posi- 

 tive microfilm obtained* 



The programme of the preservation of old original survey plans 

 was increased this year by having a commercial firm remount four hundred 

 and eighty-nine (^89) plans and descriptions from six (6) of the old Dpper 

 Canada partial plan books on individual boards, back to back, to save filing 



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