1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. 55 



{Appendix No. 18.) 



Boundary Line between Algoma and Thunder Bay, North of Canadian 



Pacific Eailvvay 



Toronto, November 28th, 1907. 



Sir, — I have the honor to submit the following report on the survey of 

 one hundred and twenty miles of the boundary line between the Districts 

 of Algoma and Thunder Bay from its intersection with the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway due north towards the Albany River, under instructions from your 

 Department, dated, the 6th of May, 1907. 



I left Toronto on the fourth of June last and proceeded to White River 

 Station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, the initial point of my survey, 

 being about three miles west of that place, at the centre line of the said 

 railway's right of way, where it is intersected by the meridian of eighty- 

 degrees twenty minutes west longitude, as laid down by Ontario Land 

 Surveyor, Thomas B. Speight, in October, 1902, said poixit of intersection 

 being in latitude forty-eight degrees, thirty-six minutes and forty seconds 

 north. 



After obtaining the necessary observations I commenced the survey on 

 the 7th of June and ran north astronomically from day to day until the 

 7th of September when the work was discontinued at the end of the one 

 hundred and twentieth mile, the reason for this being that a number of the 

 men in my employ were out of footwear and as the country was very wet 

 from the almost continuous rainfall of the summer they refused to go farther. 



After caching the remainder of my supplies (about twenty-five hundred 

 pounds), I returned via the English River, Long Lake and the Pic River to 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway at Heron Bay, arriving there on the 20th of 

 September and at Toronto two days later. 



I had a party of twenty-six all told, six of them being Indians and 

 these were almost the whole time engaged in canoeing supplies from Monti- 

 zambert to Obakamaga Lake and from* Heron Bay to English River where 

 the line was to cross these waters. About ten of the men were engaged in 

 packing the supplies and moving the camp outfit along the line. Mj? assist- 

 ant was Walter Smith, O.L.S. of Lindsay and Mr. A. L. Parsons of Toronto 

 University accompanied the party as geologist. 



The survey was made in accordance with instructions in every parti- 

 cular. An iron post one and seven-eighths inches in diameter and three feet 

 m length marked "Algoma" on the east, ''Thunder Bay" on the west and 

 "R" on the south was planted along side a pitch pine post, similarly marked, 

 six inches square and four and a half feet high in a stone mound at a dis- 

 tance of two_ chains and twenty-four links north of the centre line of the 

 railway on the northern limit of the right of way being one hundred feet 

 from the centre line measured at right angles therefrom. 



Wooden posts were planted at the end of every mile marked with a 

 scribe iron, the number of the miles on the south side, "A" on the east side 

 and "T.B." on the west side, and at the end of every six miles an iron post 

 was planted alongside the wooden post similarlj marked with a cold chisel, 

 stone mounds were built around all posts whenever stones could be obtained 

 and bearing trees taken, marked "B.T." and distance and direction noted 

 from the post wherever there were trees standing. 



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