104 REPORT OF THE No. '^ 



(Appendix No. 34.) 

 Township of Reaume, District of Algoma. 



LiSTOWEL, Ontario, December 21st, 1907. 



Sir, — In pursuance witli instructions dated May Gth, 1907, from the 

 Honorable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, I beg leave to report 

 the following : I had the same difl&culty this year in procuring suitable canoes 

 for my trip, I had canoes ordered from the Peterborough firm and just when 

 the time was up for delivery I received word that they could not be shipped. 

 However, I was fortunate in getting canoes at Orillia and North Bay, after a 

 delay of two weeks. I left Toronto on June 25th, 1907, and reached Engle- 

 hart, via the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, on June 27th. 

 This point is one hundred and thirty-eight miles north of North Bay, and was 

 at that time as far north as the regular trains were running. From Engle- 

 hart we travelled north on the contractor's construction train to McDougall's 

 Chute, a distance of sixty-five miles, the steel on the railway was laid to this 

 point on July 2nd. McDougall's Chute is situated on the Black River. We 

 left McDougall's Chute on July 2nd, with seven canoes, fourteen men, camp 

 outfit and supplies, and got as far as the junction of the Black and Abitibi 

 rivers that night, a distance of fourteen miles. The next day we travelled 

 down the Abitibi to the boundary line between the townships of Pyne and 

 St. John, on line between concessions two and three, a distance of nineteen 

 miles. In this distance there are three small portages, one at Iroquois Falls, 

 about five miles below the junction, and the other two at the Buck Deer 

 rapids, ten miles below the falls. At these rapids we took our canoes down 

 with a light load and portaged the remainder of our outfit. This rapid is not 

 a bad one to run, but one has to be careful. We ran down on the left side for 

 the upper part, and took the right for the lower part. The current in the 

 Black river is very slow, but in the Abitibi it is rapid. The water in both 

 these streams was very high, as the season was a late one. From this point 

 on the Abitibi river I proceeded west along the line between concessions two 

 and three in St. John township to the east boundary of the township of 

 Hanna, a distance of six miles. It rained nearly every day on our way into 

 the work so that we made very slow progress. On August 24th I commenced 

 the survey of the township of Reaume at the southeast angle running north 

 from the base line run by Ontario Land Surveyor Patten and west from the 

 boundary line between the Districts of Algoma and Nipissing. During the 

 survey of this township the weather was decidedly wet, the prevailing winds 

 being southwesterly. I may say that I read the Act for the Preservation of 

 forests against fire, once, but had no occasion to read it again. 



The iron posts furnished me by your department I planted and marked 

 as follows : 



The iron post, one and one-quarter inches in diameter and three feet long, 

 planted alongside a wooden post on the east boundary of the township between 

 concessions three and four, is marked "Con. Ill," on the south side, "Con, 

 IV." on the north side, and "I." on the west side. The wooden post is simi- 

 larly marked. 



The iron post, one and one-quarter inches in diameter, planted alongside 

 a wooden post, intended to be planted on the south boundary of the township 

 at the intersection of the side line between lots six and seven, is planted at 

 chainage five and thirty-three one-hundredth chains, on said side line, as 

 the corner comes in a lake. The post is marked "Con. I." on the north side, 

 "VI," on the east side, and "VII," on the west side. The wooden post is 

 similarly marked. 



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