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flows through a series of small lakes, finally emptying into a bay on the south 

 side of Whitewater Lake. A well-travelled canoe route with five portages 

 passes through these lakes. Lone Breast Bay has low, stony shores for the 

 greater part and the survey was rendered rather tedious on account of many 

 cedar trees overhanging the water, which necessitated considerable cutting. 

 There is more green timber as one goes farther north, and much good spruce, jack 

 pine, white birch, etc., was seen in this area. The country becomes much rougher 

 as the end of Lone Breast Bay is approached, and on the south side of Whitewater 

 Lake there is a range of hills from two to three hundred feet high. 



The stream leaving Lone Breast Bay is a high-water outlet to Smooth Rock 

 Lake, and in dry seasons the flow is very small. Whitewater Lake is approx- 

 imately forty-eight feet lower than Smooth Rock Lake, and it is possible that a 

 power concentration could be worked out by constructing a dam at some suitable 

 point between Smooth Rock Lake and Whitewater Lake and piping the water 

 to a site for a powerhouse on Whitewater Lake. This would require the con- 

 struction of a dam at the point where Berg's River leaves Smooth Rock Lake. 



No attempt was made to investigate in detail the various 'phases of the 

 diff^erent power possibilities which have been mentioned in this report and they 

 are merely mentioned as possible solutions which will, no doubt, be intensively 

 studied at some future time when power development in this section becomes a 

 live question. 



Whitewater Lake is a large sheet of water with many islands both large and 

 small. A short distance east of where the meridian line run. by O.L.S. Benner in 

 1920 reaches the south shore of Whitewater Lake, there are a number of islands 

 and in some of the channels between these islands there is a strong current due 

 to a slight difference in elevation between the east and west parts of the lake. 



The south shore of Whitewater Lake is generally high and rocky and the 

 timber is largely old second-growth spruce, jack pine, birch, poplar, etc., with 

 some areas of older timber. The east side of the lake is more sandy and the 

 general relief lower while the timber is much the same. The north shore is very 

 irregular, mostly rocky, with several deep marshy bays. There are many beau- 

 tiful sand beaches, particularly on the easterly part of Whitewater Lake. 



The Ogoki River flows out of the northeast end of Whitewater Lake and 

 enters Whiteclay Lake a little more than nine miles down stream. The river 

 flows with a sluggish current through a rolling, sandy country timbered largely 

 with jack pine of varying ages. While the current is generally sluggish, there 

 are two falls over eight feet each. The first falls occurs in two rapids a short 

 distance apart. There are two portages both on the south side. There is, how- 

 ever, a single portage over an island which is considerably used, but there is some 

 rough water to be navigated at the foot of it. About three miles down stream 

 the lower falls occurs. This is also passed by a good portage on the south side. 



Water power reserves were laid out at each end of these falls. There is a 

 total difference in elevation between Whitewater and Whiteclay lakes of approx- 

 imately eighteen feet and it is possible that this could all be concentrated at the 

 lower falls. 



Whiteclay Lake is a long, narrow lake about twenty-eight miles in total 

 length. From a deep bay at the northeast end, a well-travelled portage route 

 leads to the Albany River and is said to pass through larger lakes. The shores 

 of Whiteclay Lake are generally rocky, but there are some long sand beaches, 

 and on the north side of the main body of the lake the shore is nearly all sand and 

 the water is so shallow that in places landing from a canoe is difficult. There 



