SURVEYS SECTION 



The policy of planning and subdividing Crown land for disposition 

 by reference to registered plans of subdivision was continued. During the 

 past fiscal year, 149 subdivisions, comprising some 1,939 lots were surveyed 

 under survey instructions issued by the Surveys Section, as compared to 1,865 

 lots surveyed the previous year. 



In the year 1958, the policy of surveying individual summer resort 

 locations following the acceptance of an application to purchase, was dis- 

 continued as far as conditions would permit. In the past three years following 

 the department's new policy of selling land by reference to registered plans 

 of subdivisions, 296 subdivisions totalling 5,000 lots were surveyed and the 

 plans registered. 



It is of interest to note that in the year 1957, there were 1,571 

 summer resort locations surveyed individually as compared with 662 surveyed 

 last year. 



Surveys of 2,935 summer resort locations and comprising 2,273 

 locations on subdivision plans and 662 individual surveys were examined 

 during the past fiscal year. This figure represents an increase of 275 over 

 the previous all-time high in the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1959» 



Retracement surveys of obliterated original surveys were increased 

 by reason of the development of summer resort land, mining and timber, 

 operations. Approximately 170 miles of retracement surveys were completed. 



Map No. /f7A of Algonquin Provincial Park, scale 2 miles to 1 inch, 

 and being a completely new edition, was published. One of the features of 

 this map which has proved very popular is the location of the established 

 canoe routes through the park. 



In anticipation of the large number of tourists through what was 

 formerly known as the "Gap" between Sault Ste. Marie and the Lakehead on 

 the King's Highway IJo. 17, two new maps were prepared: Map No. T2210, 

 covering Lake Superior Provincial Park, on a scale of 1 mile to 1 inch, and 

 Map No. T2800, on a scale of 8 miles to 1 inch, which covers Highway No. 17 

 between Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur - Fort VVilliam; lyiap No. T2800 is 

 a general information map which should prove most useful to the tourists. 



