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Appendix No. 42. 



Traverse of Sesekinika and Kenogami Lakes and Survey of Islands Therein, 



District of Nipissing. 



Elk Lake, October 23rd, 1911. 



Sir, — Under instructions from your Department dated July 31st, and August 

 Silst, T have surveyed those parts of Sesekinika and Kenogami Lakes, lying 

 within the Township of Grenfell, and the islands therein, subdividing the larger 

 islands into parcels suitable for summer resorts. I have also traversed the 

 Blanche Biver from Kenogami Lake to the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario 

 Eailway. Along the shore of Sesekinika Lake at distances averaging about a mile, 

 I have marked suitable trees at prominent points W, Wl, W2, etc., and along the 

 shore of Kenogami Lake at like intervals have planted posts marked PI, P2, to 

 P6. I continued these posts along the Blanche Eiver at intervals of about half 'a 

 mile, marking them P6 to Pll. 



I found no surveyed mining claims to connect with my survey of either lake or 

 the river, though many unsurveyed claims are staked in the neighborhood of 

 all. 



Sesekinika Lake contains twenty-three islands, varying in size from one- 

 tenth of an acre to over two hundred acres. Of the largest island only about ' 

 fifty-three acres are within the township of Grenfell. The largest island wholly 

 within this township contains about eighty-three acres. With the exception of two 

 or three very small islands all are well timbered with spruce, birch, jack pine, 

 poplar and balsam, the largest island A2, having many spruce, birch and poplar 

 from 18 to 24 inches in diameter. 



All the islands consist of an outcrop of schistose rock covered very lightly 

 with soil, there being, except in a few isolated spots, practically no arable land 

 on the islands. Nearly all are suitable for summer resorts, some, as described 

 in schedule accompanying this report, being very desirable. 



Along the east shore near the railway I found land suitable for only two 

 lots. As show'n on plan and field notes most of the land between the railway 

 and the lake has been recently burned over and consists noAv along the shore of 

 nearly bare rock covered with fallen timber., Probably in a few years it will 

 be sufficiently grown up with underbrush to hide the present deformity. Otherwise 

 the beauty of the shore and the islands is all that could be desired. The only 

 serious defect to this lake as a summer resort is that the water is not at all 

 clear, being always yellow and at times almost dirty. It is, however, well stocked 

 with pike and pickerel. 



The shore of the large islands, while offering many of the most desirable 

 sites for cottages, is totally unfit for a roadway, consisting in many places of 

 precipitous rock or steep incline with little or no earth for grading. The only 

 road allowance I left is between parcels 2 and 3 on island Al, to give access 

 from the water to parcel not bordering on the lake. 



In Kenogami Lake the small islands are all well wooded and offer suitable 

 locations for summer resorts. The large island is mostly brul6, small second 

 growth jack pine, spruce, and poplar covering much of it, with several large 

 white and red pine escaped from the fire. There are in both parcels into which 



