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I found it impracticable to cross the wide stretch of Shawanaga Bay, owing 

 to the rough weather at this season. Thus numerous islands in the area known as 

 Grand Camp Group were left for further operations. 



Accompanying this report are plans on mounted paper on scale of 20 chains, 

 in 5 sheets, together with tracings of same, tracings of the whole survey in 5 

 sheets on scale of 10 chains to show field notes, plans of each island in detail on 

 scale of 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 chains, copy of diary covering the season's operations, 

 descriptions of islands, showing their acreage, names, numbers, etc., together with 

 accounts in triplicate, which I hope will be found satisfactory. 



I have the honor to be, 



- Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) J. H. Bukd, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable, The Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. 32. 



Survey of Islands in Georgian Bay, in Front of Townships cf Hairison 

 AND Shawanaga, in the District of Parry Sound. 



Barrie, October 31st, 1911. 



Sir, — In compliance with your instructions bearing date May 19th, 1910, for 

 the survey of Islands in the Georgian Bay in front of the Townships of Harrison and 

 Shawanaga, I beg to make the following report: 



The islands in this district are of this character : Those not immediately next 

 the outer lake have clean cut shores as a rule, although there are many marshy 

 bays. These islands are generally rough in surface, differing from Muskoka in 

 not being so well filled in with soil. The pine clad shores are very pretty, but in 

 many instances fire has destroyed this beauty. The second growth is principally 

 of birch, poplar and oak. When the outer lake is reached we find the islands 

 flat and having marshes in their interiors, when large, and water lies on the 

 surface in pools nearly everywhere. This has the disadvantage of breeding mosquitos 

 late on in the year. There is an outermost belt of shoals, bare of verdure, and then 

 a belt of rocks with scrub cedars and occasionally a pine. Then nearer in the 

 vegetation becomes thicker and the pines* increase in number. The islands have 

 been picked over now in this district so that of the smaller islands none remain 

 of any pretentions to beauty, except those of very small acreage or inferior 

 situation. There are a certain number of points on large islands of some value 

 and a larger number which will become more valuable as the district fills up, for 

 the willingness of the public then to buy will depend on the possibility or otherwise 

 of getting anything else. The early sales in this region were of beautiful islands 

 at a nominal figure with no conditions as to improvement, so that there is little 



