Author: Edward Barnes Borron

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780332313177

Excerpt from Report of E. B. Borron, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate, on Part of the Basin of Hudson's Bay Belonging to the Province of Ontario In the Report which I had the honour to submit of my explorations in this terri tory last year, I called the attention of the Government to the importance of an early Opening up and development of its agricultural, timber, mineral and other resources, should the award of the arbitrators be confirmed. I had formed a very favourable Opinion of what is known as the Long Lake route to James' Bay, on my somewhat hurried trip over the greater part of it last year. Although late in the season, and at a period when the water in the rivers is usually low, I was alike pleased and surprised to find that from a point some fifty miles north of Long Lake to James' Bay, a distance of 250 miles, the navigation of the Kenogami and Albany Rivers was perfectly uninterrupted. Knowing that all these northern rivers, with the exception, perhaps, of Rupert's River, rise from ten to twenty feet in the spring above their summer level, I felt more than sanguine that this entire stretch would be navigable by steamers of light draught for at least six weeks after the breaking up of the ice. Having obtained the sanction of the Government, I determined to examine this route more carefully, and if possible at an earlier period in the season. Should my expectations in reference to the supposed navigable stretches on the Kenogami be realized, it was my intention to have explored for, and selected the shortest and best lines I could for the roads, which, as mentioned in last year's Report, it would be necessary to make in order to render the route complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.