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Fish and Game. 



The rivers and lakes, both large and small, abound in pickerel, pike and perch. 

 To our knowledge these are the only fish in the waters of the District. There are 

 great numbers of moose and a few red deer. 



Accompanying this report, we submit plans and field notes and also accounts 

 in triplicate. 



We have the honor to be. 



Sir, 



Your obedient servants, 



(Signed) Lang & Ross, 

 Ontario Land Surveyors. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Appendix No. 25. 

 SuEVETS OF Outlines of Tov^nships, District of Sudbury. 



Orillia, October 17th, 1911. 



Sir, — In compliance with instructions received from you bearing date of May 

 22nd, 1911, for the survey of outlines of certain townships in the District of 

 Sudbury, extending westerly from the district line of Sudbury-Nipissing, between 

 district line posts 78 M and 96 M, we left C.P.R. station of Metagama on June 

 8th and proceeded by way of Fort Mattagami and across the six-mile portage leading 

 from Lake Mattagami to Sinclair Lake, thus reaching the base line run by O.L.S. 

 Fitzgerald the previous year, which forms the southerly boundary of the townships 

 in question. 



This route is too well known to need any description, being one of the main 

 arteries of travel into that section of the country. It is interesting, however, 

 to note the changes that are creeping over it in the past few years, due to the 

 construction of roads where formerly were only the deeply-worn trails, trodden 

 for generations by the Indian packers of the Hudson's Bay Company, and the 

 signs of still greater change soon to be wrought by the construction of the 

 Canadian Northern Railway. These changes when complete, will render travel more 

 expeditious, but working hand in hand with the fire fiend that invariably accom- 

 panies modem development, will utterly destroy the scenic beauty of the country 

 and the romance of the old trails. 



Our first business on arriving on the ground was to ascertain as nearly as 

 possible the location of canoe routes through the area to be surveyed, and so 

 enable us to place our supplies as economically as possible and to protect them so 

 far as might be from the fires liable to spring up at any time, and from the 

 depredations of the less responsible members of the wandering tribes of license 

 holders at present so numerous in the north woods. 



