120 REPOET OF THE Xo. 3 



The Grand Trunk are putting in an electric plant here which will be a 

 great improvement, and it might be more economical for the Government to 

 secure light from them instead of using gas, as now. 



A survey of the eastern boundary was made, and I would recommend one 

 being made of the western boundary, as there are hunting camps right up to the line 

 in many places, and it is very poorly defined. I have iron Park notices for the 

 boundary when surveyed that will make it impossible for any one to trespass 

 unknowingly. 



Yours very truly, 



G. W. Baetlett, 



Parh Superintendent. 



Uonourahle Beniah Bowman, Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 43. 



Honourable Beniah Bowman, 



Minister of Lands and Forests, Ontario. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit my report of the work performed by the 

 Colonization Roads Branch of the Department of Lands and Forests, for the 

 fiscal year ending October 31st, 1920. 



Following the system I adopted last year, I am presenting the report in 

 tabulated form. By the use of this method, the details can be given in a more 

 concise form than in any other. On the final page is shown a summary of the 

 total amounts of the various classes of work performed. 



The total expenditure for the year was $451,808.59. Of this amount $265,- 

 993.05 was expended directly by the Government upon roads, bridges, and ppecial 

 road drainage, in some three hundred and twenty-five different townships. The 

 amount expended upon inspection and miscellaneous services was $23,263.29, the 

 balance, a sum of $162,552.25, was distributed as grants to one hundred and forty- 

 six municipalities which had expended sums totalling double this amount under 

 Colonization Roads By-laws. 



With reference to future expenditures on Colonization Roads, I would recom- 

 mend that the only roads upon which the Government should consider making the 

 entire expenditure, without local assistance, would be leading, main, market, or 

 trunk roads, or roads connecting up isolated settlements. On any other roads, the 

 total expense should not be borne by the Government alone, but the work should 

 be undertaken by local governing bodies, such as municipal councils, where town- 

 ships are organized under the Municipal Act,, or township road commissioners, 

 where the townships are organized under the Statute Labour Act. In these cases, 

 the expenditures should be supplemented by Government grants to be expended 

 by such local bodies under the supervision of an Inspector or Engineer of the 

 Department. 



