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Appendix No. 36 

 I. — Forest Fire Protection 



(1) Legislation 



On the ninth day of June, 1927, an Order-in-Council was passed designating 

 the following areas as "Travel Permit" areas: 



1. All of the Mississagi Forest Reserve and the adjoining area included 

 in Townships 195, 201, Gilmor, Chesley, Curtis, Whitman, and Townships 

 22 and 23 in Ranges 10, 11 and 12. 



2. That part of Temagami Forest Reserve south of and including the 

 Townships of Trethewey, Whitson, Van Nostrand and Klock, and east of 

 and including the townships of McGiffin, Parker, Dundee, Delhi, Armagh, 

 Afton and MacBeth, and the area east of the Temagami Forest Reserve and 

 the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway to the Ottawa River, 

 from the south boundary of the Township of Lorrain to the north boundary 

 of the Townships of Widdifield, Phelps, Olrig and Mattawan. 



3. The North Bay— Cobalt Road between Cooks Mills (M.80.4) and 

 Latch ford. 



(2) Organization and Personnel 



In the early spring the senior Fire Inspector in the Sudbury Inspectorate 

 and the Forestry Assistants in the North Bay and Georgian Bay Inspectorates 

 resigned to accept more remunerative positions elsewhere. Later the Chief 

 Fire Ranger in the Mississagi East District was appointed Fire Inspector for 

 Mississagi East and West Chief Ranger Districts. He also acted as Chief 

 Ranger for Mississagi East. The positions of Forestry Assistant in the North 

 Bay and Georgian Bay Inspectorates are still vacant. 



A new Forestry Assistant was appointed in March for the Algonquin In- 

 spectorate to fill the vacancy resulting from the appointment in the late summer 

 of 1926 of the previous assistant as District Forester at Oba. 



On June 1st the Forestry Assistant at Sioux Lookout was appointed 

 District Forester at Kenora in charge of the Kenora Inspectorate, a new Inspec- 

 torate comprised of the territory in the Kenora Land District west of Farlane 

 and south of the Canadian National Railways, and the Bee Lake mining area. 

 This area was previously in the Hudson Inspectorate. A new assistant who had 

 previously been engaged on forest surveys was then appointed for the Hudson 

 Inspectorate. 



The total field supervisory staff for the eleven inspectorates was as shown 

 in the following table and consisted of nine District Foresters, one Assistant 

 District Forester, four Forestry Assistants, one Forest Supervisor, three Fire 

 Inspectors, one Assistant Fire Inspector, thirty-nine Chief Rangers and one 

 hundred and fourteen Deputy Chief JR.angers. This allowed direct supervision 

 of one Chief or Deputy Chief Ranger to an average of every six rangers. 



