The refiling of all plans of surveys, with the exception of the 

 plans of surveyed mining claims presently filed on current correspondence 

 files, into the vertical filing system, was continued this fiscal year. 

 By using a full-time staff for most of the year, more was accomplished than 

 in the previous year. Approximately 34,000 flat, current correspondence 

 files and thousands of old docket files were examined. This completed the 

 examination of, and removal of plans from the old docket files prior to 

 1916 in the Crown Lands vault. Similar work was commenced on the old docket 

 files in the old Surveys Branch vault. Over 13,000 plans of surveys, 

 including any duplicate plans found, as well as 6,600 descriptions, field 

 notes and affidavits were removed and refiled into the vertical filing 

 system. This required the typing of 7,124 filing labels which was done 

 partly by the summer casual help and partly by the full-time staff. All 

 survey record material removed from the files was microfilmed. 



Survey Party Equipment 



Four field survey parties under staff surveyors, carrying out 

 summer resort location subdivision surveys, retracement surveys, a control 

 survey along the north shore of Lake Erie from Port Dover to Rondeau 

 Provincial Park in co-operation with the Department of Mines and Technical 

 Surveys, Ottawa, a survey of certain water lots fronting on Lake Ontario 

 opposite the Township of Etobicoke, as well as other miscellaneous surveys, 

 were supplied and equipped for field work. Major equipment purchased for 

 field use included two Theodolites, one aluminum boat, two manual calculating 

 machines, one IS H.P. outboard motor, one gasoline driven drill, five silk 

 tents, thirteen sleeping bags, one boat trailer, two stadia rods, two 

 prismatic compasses, one siderial watch, several chains and tapes and other 

 miscellaneous items. * - . / ^ 



One vehicle was renewed and the two vehicles assigned to this 

 Section for field survey work, travelled 31,664 miles during the year. 



The following quantity of survey monuments were distributed to 

 various district offices for the use of Ontario Land Surveyors on the staff 

 or in private practice whoviere making individual or subdivision surveys for 



12 



