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Appendix No. 23. 

 Survey of the Township of Lowther in the District of Algoma. 



Parry Sound, December 16th, 1913. 



Sir, — 'I have the honour to submit the following report on the survey of the 

 township of Lowther in the District of Algoma, performed under instructions 

 dated the 7th of July, 1913. 



I proceeded to my work by way of Cochrane and thence by Grand Trunk 

 Pacific Eailway to Hearst and from there I moved into the township of Lowther 

 along the grade of the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway, and commenced 

 my survey at the north-east angle of the township at the post planted by Ontario 

 Land Surveyors Sutcliffe and Neelands and chained westerly along the north 

 boundary making each lot 25 chains and 25 links wide, excepting lot 6 which I 

 made 24 chains and 94 links wide, allowing for convergence of meridians across 

 the township; here I observed Polaris for meridian and ran the centre line of 

 road allowance between lots 6 and 7 due south, making said line my base for 

 starting the several concession lines throughout the township running east and 

 west. "^ "* 



This township was surveyed under the new method of survey approved of by 

 Order in Council dated April 24th, 1906. Under this system I surveyed 12 

 concessions numbering from south to north with a road allowance of 50 link& 

 wide on each side of the outlines of the township and one chain wide between 

 every second concession, namely between concessions 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 6 and 7,. 

 8 and 9, etc., and a blind line between the other concessions namely, 1 and 2, S 

 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, etc., with a road allowance 1 chain in width between 

 every six lots, the lots being numbered from east to west. 



This township was laid out with a double front on each concession road 

 allowance run on the ground. I ran the concession lines in the middle of the road 

 allowance between each alternate concession as chords of a parallel of latitude 

 passing through the township corners and the side lines between every sixth and 

 seventh lot in the middle of the road allowance on a course north astronomically. 



I planted firmly in the ground at the front angles of the lots at right angles 

 from my centre line of the concession road allowance, durable and substantial 

 posts of the dimensions given in the general instructions, at the distance of 50 

 links on each side north and south of my line. I also planted posts in the centre 

 of my lines of survey as guide posts. These posts were marked as per instructions. 

 At the intersection of the centre of the different side road allowances with the 

 centre line of the different concession road allowances I planted a post marked 

 'Tl" on each of the four sides. 



The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway extends in a general north- 

 easterly direction across the north-west angle of the township. I allowed a road 

 allowance one chain in width, along each side of the right of way. The line 

 of the said railway has been accurately plotted on the plan accompanying this 

 report. Road allowances, one chain in width, were also left about the several 

 lakes met with in the survey of the township, these being posted as per instruc- 

 tions. In chaining the boundaries of the township I noted the chainage to all 

 survey posts planted on these lines in former surveys and have shown in the 

 field notes of my concession and side lines the amount of jog which my lines made 

 with those in the adjoining townships. 



