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Appendix No. 19. 



SUEVEY OF PaetS OF THE TOWNSHIPS OF DeVON AND HaETINGTON, DiSTEICT OF 



Thundee Bay. 



FoET William, February 25th, 1920. 



SiE, — I have the honour to submit the following report on the survey of 

 Devon Township in the District of Thunder Bay, carried out under instructions 

 dated the 16th day of May, 1919. 



On receipt of your instructions I engaged Mr. E, S. Kirkup, O.L.S., who 

 served his time with me before going overseas, to assist in the work. After 

 receiving notification of the preparation of the instructions, I received locally a 

 representation favouring the employment of returned soldiers. My party as 

 originally made up contained considerably more than half soldiers; unfortunately^ 

 many were not able to stand the bush life since their return from overseas :, 

 however, while I was not able to maintain as high an average of returned nieii 

 on this party, some were always employed and as vacancies occurred the official 

 in charge of that section of the employment bureau dealing with returned men; 

 always received the first requests for men. 



Having completed the organization of the party I moved supplies and outfit 

 by means of lorries to within three miles of the International Boundary. From 

 this point outfits and canoes were packed in over the South Fowl Lake trail to 

 Hospital Bridge on the Arrow Eiver from which points the river was used as 

 far as low water and rapids would permit. 



Commencing at the intersection of the interior lines of the township, run 

 last year, I ran east, following out the instructions, and struck good country all 

 the way to the west boundary of Pardee Township. The depth of concessions 

 three and four north of the blind line, I cut down to fifty chains depth east of 

 the eighteenth sideline on account of the rocky nature of the country to the 

 north, as shown in last year's report. I also found it advisable to limit the 

 depth of concession one to sixty chains from the twelfth sideline east. The 

 remaining concessions of the township are all eighty chains in depth with the 

 exception of that part of concession four which fronts the west boundary, which 

 is sixty chains in depth. 



Following the completion of the survey of Devon Township, the survey of 

 the part of Hartington Township covered by the same instructions was carried 

 out. The fronts of lots one to twenty-four and the south-west and north-west 

 corners respectively of lots one and twenty-four were properly posted, and referred 

 to bearing trees, and the sixth, twelfth and eighteenth sidelines were duly 

 established. 



Separate plan and field notes of this part of the township have been prepared 

 in accordance with my instructions. 



In accordance with your instructions I laid out in the south-east portion 

 of the Township of Devon a road diverging from a point in the twelfth sideline 

 and running thence easterly until the sixth sideline was struck, as shown on the 

 accompanying plan. On the sixth sideline access can be had to the east boundary 

 of the township by way of the road allowance between concessions three and four. 



The road allowance along the east boundary suggested in the instructions was 

 not very practicable owing to the broken nature of the country, including one 



