1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 53 



Appendix No. 15. 



Honourable Beniah Bowman, 



Minister of Lands and Forests, 



Report on Crown Surveys. 



Sir, — The nature and extent of the surveys carried on during the past 

 year under instructions from this Department may be briefly described as 

 follows : 



Base and Meridian Lines. 



Phillips and Benner, Ontario Land Surveyors, of Port Arthur, and K. G. 

 Ross, Ontario Land Surveyor, of Sault Ste. Marie, were charged with the 

 running of certain base and meridian lines in the territory lying west of the 

 Nepigon Forest Reserve, District of Thunder Bay. The extent of this work 

 is approximately 200 miles, and the reports will disclose the physical features 

 of the large unexplored area to the east of the Lake Superior Branch and south 

 of the Transcontinental line of the Canadian National Railway. A meridian 

 line is run through this territory along or near to the divide between Lake 

 Nepigon and Sturgeon Lake waters and intersects the Canadian National 

 Railway near Allanwater. 



Ontario Land Surveyors Sutcliffe and Neelands were instructed to perform 

 a survey of a similar nature in the District of Timiskaming lying between the 

 Abitibi and Mattagami Rivers and north of Niven's base line, in latitude 49 

 degrees, 35 minutes, 30 seconds north. The extent of this work was over 100 

 miles, and within this area is included the Great Falls on both rivers mentioned. 

 Owing to the early extension of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway 

 north from Cochrane, the blocking out of this area will be of great advantage 

 in locating the railway line, also timber and land areas therein. 



Township Boundaries. 



The blocking out of townships was continued in the Districts of Sudbury 

 and Algoma in the country lying between the Canadian Pacific Railway and 

 the Canadian Northern line of the Canadian National Railways, the extent 

 of lines being approximately 525 miles. 



H. J. Beatty, Ontario Land Surveyor, established the boundaries of several 

 nine-mile townships in the country east of the Algoma Central and Hudson 

 Bay Railway and north of Missinaibi Lake, in the District of Algoma. 



J. W. Fitzgerald, Ontario Land Surveyor, and Speight & Van Nostrand, 

 Ontario Land Surveyors, completed the blocking out of the six-mile townships 

 in the north-west part of the District of Sudbury. 



C. V. Gallagher, Ontario Land Surveyor, and McAuslan and Anderson, 

 Ontario Land Surveyors, were engaged in similar work north of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway between Spanish Forks and Woman River Stations. 



Interprovincial Boundary Between Ontario and Manitoba. 



Owing to the prospecting and mining activity in the district north of the 

 Winnipeg River, in the Province of Manitoba, and that mining claims might 

 be staked over the interprovincial boundary line at any time, in order to prevent 



