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in order to enable the Superintendent to proceed as conditions warrant with 

 a reforestation plan for the continuation of the forest area and the beautification 

 of the Park. Running wild and indiscriminately the deer do not spare the young 

 growth, and it is impossible to make great headway in any spaces subject to 

 the nightly prowlings of the foraging quadrupeds. 



Rondeau Park must remain a real open theatre for the great acting public, 

 whose divers desires and longings to get into touch with nature even for a brief 

 respite in the hot summer months can be there fully satisfied. Cottage sites 

 may be leased on reasonable terms by applying to the Superintendent, R. S. 

 Carman, Morpeth, Ontario. 



Franklin Island 



Franklin Island in the Georgian Bay, although set aside under the Act as 

 a Provincial Park, has not been subdivided and offered as yet to the general 

 public. Its virgin Pine forest is a valuable asset both from a commercial and an 

 aesthetic point of view. Up to date only one mixed camp for adults and boys 

 and girls has been permitted there, these largely occupying privately owned 

 land patented a number of years ago. 



Commission Parks 



Apart from the Parks administered by the Department of Lands and Forests, 

 there are certain strategically situated areas bordering on the Great Lakes 

 that have been allocated for and developed into well-known watering places. 



Burlington Beach, on Burlington Bay, opposite Hamilton; Presqu'ile 

 Point on Lake Ontario, near Brighton, and Long Point Park on Lake Erie in 

 Norfolk County are each operated under a Commission appointed by virtue 

 of a separate Act creating the Park and providing for its administration. The 

 Commission in each case is vested with powers similar to those of an ordinary 

 municipality and, subject to securing approval of the by-laws by Lieutenant- 

 Governor-in-Council, may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of such of the land 

 for cottage sites or other purposes as may be deemed in the interests of the 

 general public. 



Surveys, Water Powers, Engineering, Maps, Etc. 



The land and boundary surveys carried out during the year under instruc- 

 tions included interprovincial boundaries, base and meridian lines, township 

 outlines, lake, river and road traverses, and other miscellaneous surveys. 



The northerly point of the Ontario-Manitoba boundary line on the shore 

 of Hudson's Bay was determined, and aerial photographs of the country on 

 the boundary line between Island Lake and Hudson's Bay were taken for the 

 purpose of determining the nature of the country traversed as an aid for future 

 field work on this line. 



The Ontario-Quebec boundary line north from Lake Temiskaming was 

 completed through to the shore of James Bay. The surveys of township outlines 

 were carried out along the line of the James Bay Extension of the Temiskaming 

 and Northern Ontario Railway. 



Control surveys for mapping purposes were continued in the Algonquin 

 Park Area and also between Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon, in the Thunder 

 Bay District. 



Surveys of Colonization and trunk roads were carried out in the districts 

 of Temiskaming, Nipissing, Sudbury and Parry Sound. 



