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Appendix No. 21 



Extract from Report of Survey of the Interprovincial Boundary, Mile 140 and 

 Mile 208, also retracement between Mile 140 and Mile 129, by Shirley 

 King, O.L.S., 1930. 



Upon receipt of instructions to proceed with the establishment of that 

 portion of the Ontario-Quebec boundary north from Mile 140 to James Bay, 

 your surveyors made arrangements to meet in Ottawa. On May 30th and 31st 

 we met and made our plans for organization. The party was duly organized 

 and collected at La Sarre, a town on the Canadian National Railways in Quebec, 

 just east of the boundary. We left there for the line on June 20th and arrived 

 back on October 2nd, having in the meantime completed 68 miles of new line, 

 to Mile 208, and having retraced 11 miles from Mile 140 to Mile 129 on our 

 way home. 



Following your instructions, the party was recruited wholly from one 

 province, thereby the better assuring accord, as this was a dual control party. 

 It was arranged that Mr. Roy should engage all the men and his assistants 

 from Quebec and that Mr. King should take his assistants from Ontario. This 

 plan worked admirably. Every one of the party rendered excellent service. 

 Particular mention is made of Mr. A. Dumas, Q.L.S., assistant, who while 

 mainly in charge of opening and production of line yet did particularly fine 

 work in every part of the job as occasion demanded. It was mutually agreed 

 between us that Mr. Roy should look after transport and supplies and that 

 Mr. King should be in charge of production of the line. The transport proved 

 particularly heavy work, taking more men from our party than had been antici- 

 pated. The great distance from our base of supplies, very low water and bad 

 waterways, all combined to hold up the mileage. The line work was fairly 

 routine compared to other lines except that refraction was perhaps a little more 

 pronounced than usual. As much outfit as possible and all provisions were 

 purchased in Ontario to offset the fact of all men being hired in Quebec. 



The Route 



From LaSarre we portaged with teams and trucks about 14 miles to the 

 Turgeon River where we embarked in our canoes. A Johnson motor and five 

 canoes comprised our outfit at the beginning. The Turgeon was splendid water 

 for going down at this time for about 50 miles to the mouth of a little river, 

 the Turcotte. We went up this river in good water till we crossed Speight's 

 base line run in 1900 and which was almost completely obliterated in places. 

 This crossing was about one mile west of Mile 140 on the boundary, the point 

 at which we were to commence. 



The Turgeon was used for about 18 miles farther to the Garneau River, 

 up which one trip was made with supplies to the line. This is a very shallow 

 crooked creek or small river with numerous shallow stoney rapids and logfalls 

 and is extremely bad for canoes. For farther distance of 16 miles to the mouth 

 of the Detour River, the Turgeon was used. The Detour was fairly good as 

 far as travelled on, about 6 or 7 miles west of the boundary. The route followed 

 up a creek which came from the northwest and entered the Detour at a point 

 about 1 mile east of the boundary. Ascending this creek for about 5 miles the 

 boundary is crossed and thence the route lay wholly in Ontario. Small crooked 

 shallow creeks, shallow weedy lakes and a muskeg height of land made transport 

 heavy and slow. The route then led by shallow lakes and creeks to a small 



