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the last named township and the Township of Machar, a distance of 20% miles. 

 The country passed through is generally rough and rocky in places, although there 

 is a fair percentage of good agricultural land. The farmers in many instances 

 have good buildings and land in a fair state of cultivation. Large sections of 

 country are still covered with timber, chiefly hardwood. 



The distance from South River to North Bay is a little over 40 miles and can 

 be covered by an automobile in two hours. The road constructed this season will 

 still require to be re-surfaced in a few places. The road will give the settlers what 

 they have long required, access to the leading local markets, North Bay, Callander 

 and Powassan, at all seasons of the year. 



This Trunk Road when improved as far as Burk's Falls, a further distance of 

 20 miles, would constitute an excellent highway between North Bay and Bracebridge. 



NORTH BAY AND MATTAWA TRUNK ROAD. 



Twenty miles repaired. 



The Trunk Road between Callander and Mattawa was constructed three years 

 ago, was re-surfaced with gravel in places for 7 miles, and run over with the road 

 drag for 20 miles in tiie Townships of Ferris, Bonfield, and Calvin. 



PEMBROKE AND MATTAWA TRUNK ROAD. 



During the winter of 1915-16, after finishing the surfacing and gravelling of the 

 trunk road between the Military Camps at Petawawa and the Town of Pembroke, 

 work was commenced in November, 1915, and continued throughout the winter 

 season, in filling the eastern approach to the new bridge across the Petawawa 

 River at the eastern entrance to the Petawawa Military Camps. Approximately 

 15,000 cubic yards of gravel and stone were required in this work. The road from 

 the Military Camps to Pembroke is now in first-class condition. 



ROADS IN THE ALGONQUIN PROVINCIAL PARK, DISTRICT OF 



NIPISSING. 



Minesing Road, partly cut out, ditched and graded 10 miles 



Nominigan Road, partly cut out, ditched and graded 7 miles 



From Algonquin Park Station, on the Canada Atlantic Branch of the Grand 

 Trunk Railway, in the Algonquin Provincial Park, two roads as above named were 

 partly constructed and improved. Both start from the railway station near the 

 headquarters of the Park Ranger and the Highland Inn, one of the railway com- 

 pany's beautiful summer resorts. 



The Minesing Road winds its way over the hardwood ridges and through the 

 valleys in a northerly direction for a distance of over 11 miles to the south-west 

 shore of Island Lake, where the railway company has erected several fine summer 

 resorts. The lake is one of the finest in the Park and is situated at the head waters 

 of three important rivers, the Muskoka, Madawaska and Petawawa, at an elevation 



