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general recreation (day use), parks, timber management, 

 wilderness areas, nature reserves and wildlife management 



, purposes. 



i This year, Treasury Board approved 53 proposals covering 



' the acquisition of 71,887.95 acres, and an additional 46 



. proposals were approved for the acquisition of 43,329 acres 

 by the Ontario Parks Integration Board. The number of acres 

 acquired this fiscal year amounted to 18,845.71, while almost 

 66,000 acres in total were considered and subsequently 

 rejected. 



A total of 66 leases located in Rondeau and Algonquin Parks 

 and Wasaga Beach comprising over 25 acres were pur- 

 chased. Some 715 acres of land were donated to the Crown 

 for use as park and public recreation areas. 

 Since the institution of the Federal-Provincial A.R.D.A. Cost- 

 Sharing Program in 1964-65, the Province has acquired 

 25,522.15 acres of land under the agreement. This fiscal year 

 15,694.05 acres of land were acquired in five projects under 

 the A.R.D.A. Agreement for timber and wildlife management 

 purposes. Also pending approval, are proposals pertaining 

 to 10 parks, seven wildlife management areas, and six 



' timber management areas. 



I At March 31, 1967, some 40 per cent of the lake shore areas 



i and all of the inventory for the portion of Ontario below the 

 43rd parallel has been completed under the Recreation Land 



I Inventory sector of the Canada Land Inventory. This capa- 

 bility inventory will be of great value in determining which 



! Crown lands should be reserved for public use, and in 

 assessing areas of private land which should be purchased 



I for public use. 



SURVEYS SECTION 

 CARTOGRAPHY 



Work of the Cartographic Subsection is divided into two 

 areas of endeavour: compilation and production of new and 

 revised editions of maps; and research, investigation and 

 application of geographic names to geographical features 

 in Ontario. 



In pursuit of the objective to produce a total of 21 maps in 

 a provincial topographic series on a scale 1 inch = 2 miles 

 to cover areas in Northern Ontario, map sheets designated 

 Hornepayne, Calstock, Taradale, Obakamiga Lake, Timmins 

 and Gogama were printed. Revised editions of one eight- 

 mile, one four-mile and three miscellaneous maps were 

 produced, together with the last in a series of four surficial 

 geology maps. 



Editing of nomenclature on maps produced by federal and 

 provincial mapping agencies was continued, and more than 

 600 new geographical names were recommended to the 

 Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names 

 I for approval, in addition to names either altered or 

 ' rescinded as a result of toponymy research by field officers 

 of the Geographical Branch, Department of Energy, Mines 

 and Resources, Ottawa. 

 LEGAL SURVEYS 



Legal Surveys Subsection carries out drafting and plan 

 examination, and prepares instructions for surveys carried 

 out by departmental surveyors, as well as for all surveys 

 carried out by private surveyors to meet the needs of 

 the retracement, restoration, subdivision and inspection 

 programs. 



Drafting of area plans, special maps and charts, legal survey 

 plans resulting from departmental field survey activities, 

 graphic illustrations, and redrafting of township plans on a 

 scale 1 inch = 20 chains continued. In addition, the loca- 

 . tion and extent of all new alienations of Crown land con- 

 i tinued to be plotted on township or area plans in order to 

 maintain a graphic illustration of the status of land through- 

 out the Province. 



All plans of survey or plans compiled from available in- 

 formation leading to any form of alienation of Crown land 

 were examined for compliance with statutes and depart- 

 mental policy. These plans included surveyed individual 

 summer resort, commercial or industrial locations, water 

 lots and Crown subdivisions. In addition, returns from 

 surveys carried out under instruction such as retracement, 

 restoration and municipal surveys, which did not lead to 

 alienation, were examined for compliance with statutes and 

 instructions. 



Field surveys for administrative purposes were carried out 

 by field survey crews, with headquarters in Toronto, operat- 

 ing principally in the northern part of southern Ontario. 

 These crews were engaged in determination of encroach- 

 ment on Crown land and extent of ambiguous Crown grants, 

 retracement, inspection and park surveys, together with 

 other miscellaneous surveys. 

 SURVEY RECORDS AND MAP DISTRIBUTION 

 Custody of survey records and reproduction for sale and 

 distribution and sale of maps and publications produced by 

 the Department, as well as sale of maps produced by the 

 Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, are main 

 responsibilities discharged by the subsection. 

 Distribution of the Provincial Topographic Map Series more 

 than doubled over the previous year, and an increase 

 occurred in the distribution of map sheets in the National 

 Topographic Map Series mainly due to an issue of new and 

 revised sheets in the 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale 

 series. It has been noted a decrease in distribution of the 

 territorial map series takes place as the popularity of the 

 smaller topographic map series increases, and as new or 

 updated sheets become available. 



The quantity of sensitized reproduction material consumed 

 for copying various topographic map and township tracings, 

 Georgian Bay Island map sheets, summer cottage lot sub- 

 divisions and other miscellaneous plans, as well as sur- 

 veyors' field notes, by the contact dry process and by photo- 

 graphic reproduction methods remained approximately the 

 same as in the previous year. 



The number of public inquiries requiring a search of 

 original plans and field notes of surveys of Crown lands 

 increased substantially during the year, as people sought 

 historical information for Centennial projects. 



ENGINEERING SECTION 



The Engineering Section continues to provide management 

 of water resources through approval of dams under The 

 Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act, determination of the 

 terms and conditions, and preoaration of water power lease 

 agreements under The Water Power Regulation Act, admini- 

 stration of licences of occupation for dams constructed 

 principally for log driving purposes, and administration of 

 the reconstruction of old dams. In addition, special engin- 

 eering consultation services were provided in hatchery 

 design and construction, and fisheries and waterfowl man- 

 agement projects. 

 ACCESS ROADS 



Some 1,850 miles of forest access roads were maintained 

 during the fiscal year, which is an increase of 331 miles 

 over the previous year, and represents an increase of 100 

 per cent over the total number of miles of road maintained 

 during the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1964. 

 The criterion for eligibility for maintenance has not been 

 broadened to include roads other than those used by the 

 Department of pursuit of its programs, but has increased 

 steadily as the Department's capital road construction 

 program has expanded, and reflects to a degree the new 

 policy to maintain some abandoned logging roads where it 

 is in the interest of the Department to do so. 



