1921-22 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 53 



Appendix No. 15. 



Honourable Beniah Bowman 



Minister of Lands and Forests. 



Report of Crown Surveys. 



Sir, — During the past year surveys have been carried out on Crown Lands 

 under instructions from this Department to the extent of 1,000 miles of Provin- 

 cia' boundary, base and meridian and township boundary Hues, also covering 

 2,000 miles of lake, river and is and traverse. 



Interprovincial Boundary between Ontario and Manitoba. 



This boundary survey commenced in 1921 was continued in charge of J. 

 W. Pierce, Ontario and Dominion Land Surveyor, of Ottawa, and pushed for- 

 ward to the twelfth base line on the system of Dominion Land Survey, this 

 being the deflecting point in the boundary as described by the Act of Parliament 

 of Canada of 1st April, 1912. The Commissioners appointed by the respective 

 Governments will make a special report on this boundary survey when the final 

 returns are completed. 



Interprovincial Boundary Between Ontario and Quebec. 



In order to preserve and perpetuate the existing line it was found expedient 

 to retrace and remonument the Ontario-Quebec Boundary from a point on 

 the northerly bank of Lake St. Francis, near Baudette, to a point on the Ottawa 

 River near Pointe Fortune. In compliance with an Order-in-Council dated 

 20th day of March, 1922, instructions issued to E. T. Wilkie, Ontario Land 

 Surveyor, on behalf of this Province, and similar instructions issued to Paul E. 

 Mercier, Quebec Land Surveyor, on behalf of the Province of Quebec, to carry 

 on this joint survey. I am glad to report that this retracing of the line was 

 carried on harmoniously and to the satisfaction of both representatives and the 

 report on this work will be found herein. 



Base and Meridian Lines. 



Phillips and Benner, Ontario Land Surveyors, and K. G. Ross, Ontario 

 Land Surveyor, were engaged on base and meridian line work west of the Nipi- 

 gon Forest Reserve, in the district of Thunder Bay. 



Township Boundaries. 

 The following surveyors were in charge of township boundary work: — 



District of Sudbury, six-mile townships, — 

 J. W. Fitzgerald. 

 Chas. V. Gallagher. 

 McAuslan, Anderson & Moore. 



District of Cochrane, nine-mile townships, — 

 Sutcliffe & Neelands, 

 Speight & Van Nostrand. 



District of Algoma, — 



H. J. Beatty. 



