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(8) Improvements 



In spite of the bad fire year it was possible to complete during the season a 

 considerable amount of building, particularly in the eastern portion of the 

 Province. 



The major improvements consisted of the erection of 582 miles of permanent 

 telephone lines, twenty-three steel lookout towers, seven wooden lookout towers 

 and seven boat and storehouses. 



The largest building erected was the combined boat and storehouse at 

 Kenora. This building is of corrugated metal with wire glass windows through- 

 out and consists of a boathouse thirty-six feet by fifty-five feet and a storehouse 

 twenty-two feet by fifty feet. The boathouse provides accommodation for a 

 fifty-foot boat. 



Further wireless stations were established in the Hudson Inspectorate and 

 two in the Cochrane Inspectorate. Stations are now located at: Sioux Lookout, 

 two stations. Gold Pines, Goose Island, Red Lake, Swains Lake, Woman Lake, 

 Kapakik Lake, Pickle Lake, Savant Lake, Fort Hope, Caribou Lake, Armstrong, 

 Little Abitibi Lake, Stimson, Maple Mountain, Elk Lake and Timagami. 



It was intended to instal a station at Wingiskus Lake north-west of Minaki 

 but the severe fire season prevented this. 



Permanent Improvements 



Completed to October 31st, 1929 



Cabins 272 



Storehouses 55 



Boathouses 31 



Combined Storehouses and Boathouses, etc 9 



Bunkhouses 40 



Offices 13 



Garages 50 



Other Buildings 78 



Hose Towers 42 



Wooden Lookout Towers 131 



Steel Lookout Towers 91 



Permanent Telephone Lines (miles) 2,532 



Temporary Telephone Lines (miles) 79 



(9) Air Operations 



Aircraft were during the season called upon to do a greater amount of trans- 

 portation than ever before. In many sections of the Province the great distances 

 make any other means of transportation out of the question when speed is 

 necessary as in the case of fire protection. So many fires were burning at the 

 same time and requiring the use of aircraft that machines of commercial com- 

 panies had to be called in to assist our own organization. 



During the season machines were located as follows : 



Goose Island 2 H.S.2 L's. 



1 Moth 

 Sioux Lookout 2 H.S.2 L's 



1 Moth 

 Kenora 2 H.S.2 L's. 



1 Moth 

 Fort Frances 1 H.S.2 L. 



1 Moth (part season) 



