1908 DEPARTMF.NT OF LANDS, FORESTS' AND MINES . 103 



Nine men were taken from Toronto and vicinity and thirteen others were 

 engaged at various points along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 between Missanabi and Heron Bay. 



A start was made from Montizambert on 13th June, up the canoe route 

 connecting that point with the Albany River, via the Nagagami River. Ten 

 days were occupied in travelling and transporting about thirty-eight hundred 

 pounds of supplies and equipment to the commencement of the survey, a 

 distance of about one hundred and fifty miles, including twenty-six portages. 



The last ten miles of the journey — from Cache 9 A of the National 

 Transcontinental Railway, at the crossing of the Nagagami River 

 — being devoid of waterway it was necessary to pack the supplies for the 

 eastern part of the work the entire distance. 



The residue of our previous season's supplies having been stored near 

 Cache 9A, we were able to avoid the necessity of transporting an additional 

 twenty-five hundred pounds from Montizambert for this season's require- 

 ments. Heron Bay was made headquarters for sujjplies for the western part 

 of the survey. 



Work was begun on 25th June at the closing point of our work of 1907, 

 the end of the sixty-third mile on the base line, being the southwest angle 

 of the township of Fintry, the northwest angle of the township of McMillan, 

 or three townships' breadth east of the boundary between the Districts of 

 Algoma and Thunder Bay. The initial point was in latitude forty-nine 

 degrees, fifty-one minutes and six seconds north, and was found to be marked 

 by an iron post one and seven-eighths inches in diameter, alongside a cedar 

 post six inches square marked on the east "63M." This post also marked the 

 southeast angle of the township of Mulloy and the northeast angle of the 

 township of McCoig. 



We then continued the base line due west, twenty-seven miles on nine 

 mile chords of the parallel of latitude stated above, being from the sixty- 

 third to the ninetieth mile on the first base line, planting a wooden post at 

 the end of each mile and, in addition, iron posts one and seven-eighths inches 

 in diameter at the ends of the seventy-second, eighty-first and ninetieth 

 miles. The ninetieth mile fell short about one and seven-eighth miles (esti- 

 mated), of the district boundary, that portion of the base line being not 

 completed. This line forms the south boundaries of the townships of Mulloy, 

 Shuel and part of Boyce, and the north boundaries of McCoig, Kohler and 

 part of Clavet. 



Returning to the eighty-first mile post we ran due north, nine miles, 

 to the northwest angle of the township of Shuel, and the northeast angle of 

 the township of Boyce, planting a wooden post at the end of each one and a. 

 half miles and an iron post at the township corner. 



This line if continued about one-third of a mile north would cross the 

 located line of the National Transcontinental Railway. 



We next ran due west on the second base line, being a chord of a parallel 

 of latitude, forming the boundary between the townships of Bicknell and 

 Boyce, with wooden posts planted at the end of every mile, for a distance of 

 ten miles and sixty-six chains, at which distance the boundary between the 

 Districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay was intersected at a point five chains 

 and fifty-two links south of the ninety- fourth mile post on that boundary. 



At the intersection of the second base line with the district boundary, 

 we planted an iron post one and seven-eighths inches in diameter alongside 

 a spruce post marking each as follows: "XM + 66c" on the east side, "Hen- 

 derson" on the northwest side, "Bicknell" on the northeast side, "Boyce" on 

 the southeast side, and "Bell" on the southwest side, and continued the line 



