1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 11 



Crown Surveys. 



During the year surveys carried on in the northern part of the Province 

 consisted of the running and posting of several base and meridian lines, town- 

 ship outlines, lake and river traverse, including the survey of islands therein. 



The Inter-Provincial Boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and 

 Manitoba north from the Winnipeg River, has also been defined on the ground 

 for a distance of 70 miles. 



Government Town Plot surveys have been made at Kapuskasing, in the 

 District of Timiskaming, and at Hearst, in the District of Algoma, and Govern- 

 ment Park Lots surveyed at Bala in the District of Muskoka. 



Approval has been given to private town plot subdivisions on lands patented 

 since 1910 pursuant to R.S.O. 1914, chapter 34, as follows: 



Town Plot of Calvert, in the Township of Calvert, District of Timiskaming. 



Town Plot of Capreol Addition, in the Township of Norman, District of 

 Sudbury. 



Kirkland Lake Extension, in the Township of Teck, District of Timiskaming. 



Swastika Addition, in the Township of Teck, District of Timiskaming. 



Moonbeam, in the Township of Fauquier, District of Timiskaming. 



Municipal Surveys. 



Pursuant to sections 15, 16 and 17 of the Surveys Act, petitions for re- 

 surveys of original road allowances have been received from the Corporations 

 of the Municipalities of: 



City of Toronto, 



Township of Hinchinbrooke, 



Township of Maidstone, 



Township of Sandwich East, 



Township of Anderson, 

 and the necessary instructions have been given for the required surveys. 



The municipal surveys which were being performed under instructions 

 of prior date and which were confirmed during the year were those on petition 

 from: 



(a) Township of Beverley. 



(b) Township of Gloucester. 



Detailed descriptions and reports of the several surveys made will be 

 found in Appendices 19 to 40, inclusive. 



Parks. 



The Department, for the first time in its history, installed an exhibit at 

 the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, of the Forests and Wild Life 

 from its National Forest Reserves and wild life sanctuaries, Algonquin, 

 Quetico and Rondeau Parks. 



A picturesque log cabin representing the forest ranger's home, snugly set 

 against a background of spruce, pine, balsam and birch trees, with wild animals 

 and feathered creatures in the foreground proved attractive. 



Included in the many and distinguished visitors who viewed the exhibit 

 was the Governor-General, who expressed himself thus: "This is a revelation 

 and an education to me. To see a section of our northland hastily bundled 



