1914-15 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 47 



Appendix No. 18. 



Survey of the Township of McMillan^ in the District of Algoma. 



MoRRiSBURG, Ontario, February 10th, 1914. 



Sir, — In accordance with your instructions bearing date June 8th, 1912, I 

 beg to report on! the survey of the township of McMillan in the district of Algoma. 

 I left Ottawa Friday, June 21st, accompanied by one assistant, one chainman, 

 a cook and eight axemen. Two assistants who were to have joined me here failed 

 to put in an appearance. Upon my arrival at Cochrane I was joined by two 

 additional chainmen so that on Wednesday, June 26th, I started for the township 

 of McMillan with a party of thirteen, where we arrived on the 27th. 



We proceeded southward along our east boundary with camp equipment and 

 supplies to the south-east corner of the township, where I found an eight-inch 

 tamarac post planted by O.L.S., T. B. Speight, marked McMillan on the north- 

 west side. Gill on the north-east side and IXM. on the north side, and aside of this 

 an iron post one and three-quarters of an inch in diameter.. 



From this point having marked the iron post with the letter R. on the north, 

 south, east and west sides, and taken an observation I started the south boundary 

 of the township on a course west astronomically. This line I ran for a distance of 

 nine miles and from its western extremity, after taking an observation, I ran the 

 west boundary of the township on a course north astronomically. 



Upon the south boundary after laying off fifty links for half the road allow- 

 ance between the townships of Gill and McMillan, I planted posts giving each lot 

 a width of twenty-five chains and twenty-five links, except lot 28 to which I gave a 

 width of thirty-three chains and twenty-five links, making due allowance for a 

 road one chain in width between lots 6 and 7, 12 and 13, 18 and 19, and 24 and 25. 

 I also planted a post fifty links north of each of the said posts to indicate the south- 

 east and south-west corners of the lots in the first concession. 



I took observations at the intersections with the south boundary of the centre 

 lines of the road allowance between lots 6 and 7, 12 and 13, 18 and 19, and 24 and 

 25, and ran a line north astronomically from each of these intersections, planting 

 on the line between lots 12 and 13 a post every oiie hundred and twenty chains. 

 From these posts I ran the concession lines that were to be run, east and west to 

 intersect the eastern and western boundaries. 



Owing to the extremely wet weather and the quitting of my entire party I was 

 forced to suspend operations for the season and store my camp equipment, leaving 

 about one-third of. the work still to perform. On my return to the township to 

 resume work last August I found that my entire equipment had been stolen, but, 

 although seriously handicapped, I proceeded and eventually finished the survey. 



The Township of McMillan is a level plain through which passes the Negagami 

 river, entering the township on lot 23 in the first concession and being joined by 

 the Negagamisee or White river on lot 4 11th concession. A striking peculiarity 

 of these rivers is the great depth of the river bed below the level of the country 

 tlirough which the river passes. They are both shallow and swift and have many 

 rapids. 



The township is fairly well timbered with spruce, balsam, poplar, balm-of- 

 gilead, white birch and cedar, but the trees are for the most part only of medium 

 size and portions of the township give evidence of iiaving, years ago, been fire swept 

 while the western part has been comparatively recently burnt over. 



