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JOSEPH CAUCHOX, Commissioner, GEXERAL IXSTRUCTIOXS FOR ROAD EXPLORATORS. In exploring for and marking out such road-lines as you may be required to trace ill ilic liekl, for the opening Dlland^ for seUlern:mt,you will be governed by the following iustrnctions ; unless when otherwise direcled by such .special in- strnolion;scrve particularly thrit it is necessary to as- certain not only that the soU be good, but also that it be arable without unusual expense ill removing stones ; and the quantity should be so much asto yield, if sold at the established price of Covernment lands, a sum at least one-half' greater than that propos'-'d to be expended upon the road. 3, — Should you find that there is no such adequate quantity of good land, you will report to the Honorable the Commissio'-'er of Crown Lands to that effect, or to the inspector of Agencies, and do nothing more in the matter without further orders. 4.— In all cases of exploration you will immediately report to the Commis- sioner of Crown Lands or to the Inspector of Agencies, what quantity of arable and good lands you have seen, as nearly as you can judge, stating the lots and ranges, if possible, where the land has been surveyed, and i^'not survevcd, the num- ber of lots fit for settlement you think it would "aHbrd ; or the extent in miles. Stating also whether die land be stony or otherwise, or so hilly and steep as to be inconvenient for ploughing ; or genemlly even : and whether the savannes or swamps have good soil at bottom, and if th* y be not too deep to be drained and cultivaled; estimating roughly what proportion there may be of each description of ground. You will state also what places or sites you have seen, or are aware of in or near the lands, where water power can be had for mills. Mention also the prevailing kinds of timber, esneciallv snch as are suitable for square timber or saw logs, staling if they be abundant or otherwise. AllOO all it ,o facililale a,= formation a, .H^^ „,ro-„=5l.om, an.l ""^'b.-- -' -^-isitt 'iS!^::^^« "S^^^^^^ P,iU present .1.0 S'-'-f ,; ™ ™iu.o,ity, cleviale a. '""f .^^^ * , f, !„■ ,„ avoUl ;Si« e-1' "f 1''---,, ,„„s to be cro...d you will -^---^.-^f'S large bridges, as it is. n ^ ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ g^, -''Si._Select ,l,e c.s,ingj^ ^J-J;^^;-; ^^1^0 .uiijejenUy 1,1,1; .ot., to .eJucc the »'<'Xvte very start and canao. ^ a^'oWj;^-,.^,^, ,( ,,•,„., whe.e *rS oltl-e -;f j::!:raSe'\irco:tonnai.in«a roac ^.^^ ,, prevent ditching, 'i""^ 'o^ be ^|8l.t of it ; ,da,„in, „ie,,-et. i„ „,.ea '^ .i/;t! Vlr^.t^j'",?,- '".t^ -'- H™ni;;;?^^:^:;^f::srat;";;i;^:xti;"::;'j'T'!'7"T '- -"■"'-'■ quinul lo nmko ti.e inrnin- distinct ^^ '''"'' 1''^''^^^^ where re- -^^^^o;:!:!:::i:j-lJ;Z!^:-^^^^^ it necessary aaer. a surveyor', line, .nark out the\nmen rrLn b^a doubHr''^ "" '"^"^^ P^^^ «^ throughout. 'uiucui oy a double blaze or spf)t on the trees 1 sun'eyedui English measure, mki^AvKXl ; P '^ '' l'^'^ Townships ale and half miles on tree.; or pie ^01^1 cive L .t Vk ''l^'-f^'^'S iron tim miles road. (Forty haifehains, or eighly ne ches m. ' ^'"'^ ^'T '^'^ ^^"^'^ «f the ^ 2.1.-Keep account of the meas in. in ntn {" T'-'' "^^ "^''^•) dry ground and the swamps or savannef Htin^.t ^^^^^"S" «hing between the the hard boltom, and at what distance fn any hnln'P""' ^"P^'^ "^ '^'^ ^^^^^ ^^ spnng brook or river, the width of i7 n. ,?J ,T '; ,^'"" ^"f^rsect any spring, the abutments (ierrassrs) aV aeh e'nS to m->^'ef "^ ^^^^'g*^ required, LLvJg ten, o stony ground or of rock requS bla^Hn. ^Sf' ' ""\^"^ ^'«" ^^^ ^^^^ also the beginning and end of ni^ntl or.,i 1 ^ ^ ^^ cannotbe avoided : and gentle; al.o the Ie„gU,osL,;S\^^^^^ staling if they be stee'p or as materiallyto increase the ex .'4 of ma ^^^ one side so much are banks requiring cutting, anc ow mu^h t E^^^^'^ ^^^^" alsowhere there passable ; also wlfether th"e groU^of W be^i^^^^^^ cut down to make them has-been clearedsof^r as to make a^;^;i:^'^\^r'-^;-^^jHeland have tS;;;^:frdSrd:^;iSr!:?^r^'r^^^ -l'- -asurementJyou cost of makingthe half mile c/ro!,racco£^^^^ '^« '^'^ Probable note of it, before you leave the gmuncrto a 5 1 T^V^'^P^^^^, and take a 26.-VVheii you have eompl nod the mn. ^ '" ^"JT'^ ^ ^^^^ estimate, your note book, with a colZn in wlicli v^n I'l™'"'' ^^'^" ^"^^'' "^^'^'e a copy of "ig each halfmile, and theeos if bu d „^ "'V' ''^'"' the estimated costof mlk- you will forward to the c'^^llt^^^^^^^^ - it. This 4 28. — You will m;irlc upon llic plan or Iraco of a plan that v/ill be givon yon, or upon our ijiadt; by yoiiv. elf, t'li; fouisoofllie loacl-line you have rnarkiHl oul. in the iiflcl, as m arly as you can, ant! in orfler to enublo yo^u the better to do so, you will, in iin";;snrinj^ your roail-line, observe parliciilarly at what distance yon cvo:.y yuiii (jfiivlU.O:)!) granted by virtue of the Acts IG Vic, c. 155 and IjO as an ;;iJ to a-sist ill M/ttiing the vacant lands belonging to the Crown in Lower (.aiiada. I hiive the h.ou'ar to be, Sir, Yo'jr most humble and obedient servant, (Signed,) T. BOUTILLIER. Inspector of Agencies. Oi' the ■mu of C:M),000 i!(^ sum .)f £4,272 13s. 9d. was disbursed by the Land Dep-ivltn'Mi! ot' (;rown Lands .£4272 13 9 And tlie sa:n of £:.^57;!7 Os. M. was placed at my disposal 25727 6 3 £30000 Of the snni oF c;:':] 'ils. Bd. I lie following sums were disbursed by the iicad of li;e ^\-'p!=.'.linent of Crown Lands: — To the [lev. rvfr. ('(■;!■:• for iho Fioad from La ChandUre to St. I^'i'''»fi-^ • 350 Vo x\. ilu -se'l lor the Road from Grand Bay to Lake St. John.... 231 10 10 To Rev. 1-:. >;!i;)J,oi ;or the Maddington Road SQO To P. M . Paaaiui for the Blaiulford Road 300 Q To J. [Jte. Lepage for the lload in rear of the County of Rimouski 1382 14 11 ■ To i*. Duiinis for Load in Woodbridge 50 7'o L. E. j.:ii'0'-'ei!e lor Ilo.ius in Beresiord and Abcrcrombie and To T. Giignoii for a Bridge over llin River Elclicmin in Frarnpton 315 For a Bridge over the lliver La Famine, 800 To P. C. Kivard lor a Koiid in rear ot'tli(! county of St. Maurice.. 100 To John Kane, in provisions, £201 18s. tliat is to say £17G 17s. Gd. for the Bridge over the liivi'ere du Moulin^ and .£25 Os. 6d. (or a Scow on tiic lliver a Valin 201 JC4272 On account of the latter sum of ,C25727 Gs. 3d., the following snrns have been disbursed by me, for the repairs of Bridges and old Roads and for tlic opening of new Roads and the Building of Bridges : — To J. Bte. Lepage for Roads in rear of the County of Rimouski, in- cluding those of Marpes, Neigette, Green Island, St. Arsene, St. Eloi, and Bic, and for repairs of the Kempt road 10 18 To Paschal Dumais tor a Road in VVoodbridg(; 150 To Nicolas Boucher for a Road in rear of St. Denis towards the Province Line 1025 To C. A. Verreault for the opening of a Road towards the Province Line in lear of the Parishes of St. John and St. Roch 900 To Antoine Talbot and Louis Blanehet for the opening of a Koad in the Township of Armagh towards the Township of IMont- miny 200 To Pierre Dagneault to open a Road in continuation of thai of Armagh to the Township of Mailloux 300 To the Rev. Messire Mailloux, for the opening of a road in the depth of the Parish of St. Lazare towards the Township of Buckland 800 To the Rev. M. Kerrigan for repairs in the hills at Mi mean, on the road to Frarnpton 150 To Remi l>olduc for the repair of two l)ridges in Tring 150 To Louis Labrecque for re])airs on the Lamblon road 1 18 I'o Widiani Hume for repairs on the Gosford road, in the Counties of Lolbiniere and Megantic, and repairs of the bridge over the River Os;:ood , - 225 To F. L. Poudrier for the road from Black River Station (Becan- cour,) and a road from Somciset to Halifax 175 To Antoine Monfet for the opening of a road from St. Croix, in the County of Lotbiniere 400 To the Rev. N. T. Hcbert for a road from Grand Bay to Lake St. John 1319 To Telesphore Fortin and Boniface Oimon, to improve the road between Grand Bay and St. Urbain, in the (.'oniily of Sa- guenay ; 1350 To John Mci-aren, for a branch road from St. Agnes to the St. Ur- bain road, and to improve the road from St. Agnes to Grand Bay 350 To John Kane for the building of a bridge over the River a Mars. 150 To Edward Robitaille for a road in Stoneliam and Tewkesbury, and for the repairs and coiitinnation of the Laval road. ...... 545 To Charles Pageot for the Belair road 200 To Alexis Cayer for a road from Rocmont to Gosford 250 To Joseph Verrette for a road in Alton 160 To P. C. Rivard for the St. Didace, II jntcrstowii, and Shawanagau Roads 826 10 18 13 9 IG 11.'. 1 3 15 7A 13 1 ^ w i To Rev. E Cliabot for the Madt1inf?toii rond -J^ [J ^ To Joseph Prince for the Aston road •. • • '••'" " " To P. N. Pac;iiid for a road tlirougli Chester, Ilain, and Wolles- town -J, _ ^ To Israel lliee for repairs to the Gosford mad 'j^ JJ JJ To H. (Jarnean and J. Hte. CouU)Mibe for the St. Franeis lload. .. 34/5 ToJ.T. Lebcl to procure provisions for the hiborcrs on the St. Francis road, under special authority of the Honorabh; llie Commissioner of Crown I.ands, the said sum reimbursable on myorder •.••••„••• '^^ ^ ^ To J. kusebe Cote for rei)airs on the road from Dudswell to Weetlon, and a bridge over tlic River Aux Canards 57 17 To Geori,'e lioniialli for a road in Orford 150 To Flavien Hlanehard for repairs to a road between Ely u nd Rox- ton To Laurent Desanlniers for a road in Catheart GOO To Am;it)U: Jette to open a road in the eastern part of the County of lierlhier, in rear of Brandon 400 To Alexander Daly to o])en a road in Chcrtsey ^ 385 15 4^ To Jose|)h Lambert for a road in Wexford 200 To Ilngli Me Adam to open a road in Kilkenny, and to contiinie the Wexford road towards Reauport • • 218 12 4^ To L. K. Laroc(|ue for tlie oi)ening of a Road in Beresford, li)r itiiprovingllK! Cdtc SuHra,:^r, in the Township of Morin, and for improving the road over the Mountain Du Lac Rofiil m Abercronil)ie '•' "r To Rob(>rt Gilmonr for the opening of a road in the Townshij) of Moriu 1..... fO To Andrew Moa for roads in Wentworth and Harrmgton 300 To Chailes Majorc for the opening of a Road from St. Andrews, Avelin, ttn-ongh tlie Townships of Rip|)on and Martwcll. 225 To R. T). Aekert for the opening of a road in the Township of Derrv ^^O To Hugh'Gorman for a road from Buckingham to Wakefield on the lliver Galineau .^ To Thomas Wilson lor opening a road towards Lake a la Lnulrc^ in the Township vS Thome To J. lite. Poapore for opening a road from the Tete du Calum't to the month of the River Cronse, in the Township of Sheen . . . 275 147 11 1 2G3 ^3 8 £19373 15 8 RECAPITULATION. Amount paid by the head of the Department £> 4272 13 9 Amount paid by this Olllce 19373 15 8 Balanee deposited in the Bank of Upper Canada at Quebec -£2689 G 9 Balanee (U>posited in the Banque du Peuple at Montreal 3664 3 10 6353 10 7 £30000 -t 8 COUNTY OF CIIICOUTIMI. Kenogami Road. Mr. N. T. Hkdert, Ovurseer. Sum nppropriuted, XI 750 Do. j)uid to Uvcrsoei', 1500 The proposud Iciiiiftli of llii.s rojul is abont 38 miles, C't)ininpiu'in'^ from tlic JiaphUtdm liuchcs, on lliu Cliiuouliiui iilvcr, uiid ending ut PJclaljLiiliouan Suition on Liiki! Si. John. Tills road was comnK'ncod hist .siimnior on the 27lh .Tunc. Nino miles of it linvi; been opened ; of llief^e bi are iini.slied and are pvaelieable for :«unnnci* veliieles and half a mile iov winter c;arriai,'es only. The opeiiini^ of the road was (■oniiiicneed on the division line l)et\veen the Townships o*' l.ai)arn' and Kenoijami, and the miles which have Keen linishcd are in the Township of Kenogami. All the work, including l)ridges, was done by day labor. The nine miles cost £1120 or abont £\2o p.ermile. Thret^ bridges were huill over ravines; one ol' lUU feet long, anolh(>r of 90, and the third of GO ieiit ; together they cost about XiOO, 'i'hc four prinei])--!! bridges remain to ])e l)uilt ; one over tlie liajiUlr. dcs Ilochcs^ on the (.'/hieoicimi liiver, uiuAlwr over La Rivia-c an iSahle ; a tliird over the Cayccji^ia Kivtjr, and the Ibuvth over Belle River. " From the Po.>'/(/g-e (/(S i^r;c/tt's, says Mr. Hcbert, to tlie T()wn^^^,ip of La- " barre, this road goes over an unpromising country; swanips, sUmes and dry " r^and are fiecjuently met with. '1 here is, however, a i-pacc of five miles near " the Caseouia Avhich contains very good land ; the road then passes over excel- " V3nt land in all its course; as far as Lake St. John." Tlie most plentiful limber is the birch, the lanarac, the white bireli, and the poplar on the highlands ; and ash, elm, alder and cedar on the Ihiis. 'i his road opens a communication with the ijeautiful valley of Lake St. Jol;n, where there is a large extent of very line lands. " This road, says also Mr. Ilebert, is absolutely necessary to the ])eoj)le who " arc already settled there, as well as for those wlu) are about to settle on the " banks and in the valley of Lake St. John, for there is no oilier means of com- " munication, except by bark canoes. Since the works on this road v.ero (!om- " inenced, forty families have settled in the Township of Lubarre, an! a far " greater number intend going there in the spring. I think that the ])iogr(\-is of " this new settlement, wliieh though small ;is yet is, nevertiuless, destined to " become the centre of an immense colony, is ])iii!cipally owing to the openinir " of this road, and I have no doubt that, in a few years the setllemciu in the " valley of Lake St. John, will become the centre of a consideral)l;> Ivade, and " thereby a source of revenue to the Province. There are water powers in 'f many j)laces. The most consideral)]e' and most adva!itag(H)us are iii tlie vici- " nity of Laki; St. John, on tiie River JJcs Aulnils, Belle River and the Rivers " Metabelcliouan et Assomachouan. Limestone is found in large quaalilies on " Lake St. John and in the Townshij) of Labarre there is a ii-Ico!c iivamtain " ofiron.^'' JMr. ilebert estimates the cost of completing the road at not h^ss tlian £3,750 exclusive of the amount necessary for the building of tlie four bridges above alluded to. t i \ 4 t t i 4 COUNTY OF CIIICOUTIMI. Bridge over la Riviere d Mars. John Kane, Overseer. Amount ap})ro))riatctl, jCiOO Paid to llie Overseer by tliis OiTice 150 Aiiioiint retained bv hini of a iargi:r sum •.'•iv(!ii to Iiiiu l)y A. liuri^tW, : : 50 10 10 £200 10 10 !! I,;hI lircii at lirsl resolved to build this brid;j[e during llie eoursc of last smniiicr ; Mr K me, I.owevt'r, suiV-fL'sled that it \vt)uld be mure adv.uitni^eous to j)iii oiriiic! b.i;il(!iii;j^ of it, in order to laiie advaiita^'e of the \viiiier season to obtain tin, timber that was iie;on, undertook the supcr- int ''id-'tiee of the laying out of this sni' of money and of another ofJCrloO which was ai'|)ropriated by the Kxecutive (.'oKiuii on the 14th Noveml)er last As you hriv>' iiitiiiiated to me your desire of eonl'iml ig this same snperinl. udenee, I have IK) n'jioit to make olhcr than the pivcc ding one, a^ad, and have cost the sum of £150. All the bridges required for these IG njiles have been built, with the exception of one 46 feet in length, in the fifteenth mile, which has yel to be finished, The cost ol'liie road which is finished is about £110 })er mile, exclusive of bridges. Messrs. Fortin and Cimon in the ablt; Jieport which they have sent me, say : " The soil on all the road which we have finished is in general good, and fit for agricultural purposes. It is of yellow loam; in some places, however, it is sandy. Very f(!w swamps are met with. The timber in general is of heavy growth. In one part no other timb{>r is found but while' birch, pine, fir, and spruce trees, but in the fourth and fifth mile birch is also found ; and it is in this last locality especially, that all the trees of whatever kind, are of very lofty growth. The same thing may be said of the remaining part of the ground over which the road has to pass." Messrs. Fortin and Cimon mention also two places at Malbaie River and at Hal Ha! Bay, "as being very suitable for settlements, as well in respect of the "quaMty of the soil as of the limber for building pur|)oses which is fonnd there." On the fifth mile there is a very considerable water power. Mt^ssrs. Fortin and Cimon did not remark any sig.is of minerals, but were assured that there 11 to are large quantities of Iron ore in the vicinity, and that specimens have been sent to Mr. Hum, chemist, of Montreal. Messrs Fortin and Cimon conclude their report by saying : _ *' Forly-eight miles of this road have yet to be finished, and we are positive " m stating that the cost per mile of what remains to b» done will, at the most, II equal that which is already finished, that is from £100 to £110 per mile, as the " portion which remains to be finished j)asses over ground which is more even " and less rocky." 4 COUNTY OF QUEBEC. Laval and Stoueham Roads. Edouaru Robitaille, Overseer. Amount appropriated to the Laval Road, £250 ^^'' do. Stoneham, , 300 650 Amount paid Overseer, £545 The Laval Road commences at the 2n(l range of the Seigniory of Beanport, crosses die 3rd, 4tl) and 5tli ranges, and will end at the church and mills, at La- val. Ihree miles oi tins road have been finished in the Seicniory of IJeauport ; as far as the i)OMndary line between that S(>igniorv and Laval. There are still 4 miles to be made. The Stoneham roinl commences opposite Mr. Brennan's house, between lots ^(»s. 4 and 5, in the 3r(l range of the Township of Stoneham, passes through the Srd and 4ih ranges and through part ofilie5ih, as far as the bridge over the outlet of the most northerly of the three small lakes. About 2^ miles have been don •, and there are still 2 miles more to be finish- ed, Ixlorc coming to the church. These roads are 20 feet wide without includ- ing the ditches. The whole length of the road opened is practicable for summer vehicles, and wa^ all built by day labor. Mr, Robitaille estimates the cost of the Laval road at £75 per mile, and that of Stoneham at £100 piT mile. Four bridges from 10 to 20 feet in length, and costing from about £5 to £15 each, were built on the Laval road, and tiiere were four, of the same dim(>nsions and at tlu! same cost, built on the Stoneham road. Tile limber through wliieh the Laval road passes is chiefly spruce or tama- rack, birch, hr and a little elm. The same sort of timber is found on the Stone- ham road, with the adilition of pine and cedar, in larger quantities, and maple in very large quantities. The soil of these different places is sandy with a good subsoil of vellow loam. It IS very well suited for agriculiural purposes and supports a population which is rapidly increasing. In I ear of these setllements, there is a vast territory which would be very suitable for a colony. The well known Beauport lime-stone quarries are in this neighbourhood. Mr. Robitaille is of opinion (hat it would require £.300 to make the road from Stoneham to Jacques Cartier River, as traced out, and £230 more to tinish that of Laval as far as the church. 12 COUNTY OF QUEBEC. Belair Road. Charles Pageot, Overseer. Amount appropriated .(-ooo do. paid Overseer, ^ '.'.'.'.'.'.',*.'.* 200 Tliis road commenci^s on tlic land of one James Tale, on the i'.::nv\ Line which separates the Seigniory oi" Gaiidarville from ihat of ]V>lair. _ It isa])out 150 acres long, and terminates at the bonndarv line b-twec^n ihe Seigniory ol Udair and tiiat of Faussainbanlt. Tiie leiigih of ihc road that is ojjened is about 90 acrco. The wiiole extent ol this road lies in the Seigniory (jf Belair. The work wns d uie by the day. The 90 acres which are o])ened nre prac- ticable l(;r ;~Mii!iinor vehicles, and 10 acres more are so for winter ones. The road cost about Lbo per mile. _ Five bridges, forming togollier about 70 feet in length, have In-.'u built on this road and have cost :ibout £20. There are water povs'crson Nos. 3, 2o and 30 in the 5lh rano-e of liobiir and on No. 40, in the lih raage. , - ^ Mr. Pagcol didnot lumself see any iron ore, but vais infonuivl ih.-.t ihevo was some m the n.-ighborliood of the road. Mr. Pageot is of opinion tlial (ou aoconnt of its bi'ing neoe,^s:i;v to uiake ditches, aiid to repair (he bridgei-i in the low lands). !!;e liiiishing ci'\W-^ road would cost Ironi i^SO to £100, and suggests ihe advaiil:ure of opcaiing ■,. r-mte to bf. Lathevnie s, ihe said route to be 50 acres in lenglh, and wld( ii v.ould ccsl about £200. COUNTY OF PORTNEUF. Roads in Ibwns'iyis of Gosford and Rocmont. Alkxis Caver, Overseer. Amount appropriated .;5(){) o o Do. paid Overseer 250 The Gosford and Roemoiit road commences at he nosf which is t!;e l)ound- ary hnc belwe. a Xos. 8 :md 9 in the Till range of Gosford, at the exlreiuity of the road which advances the farthest into that district. This road, according to Mr. J. P Dery's plan, runs towards ilx' valley of the kivcr Bati.-ean, where, according to him, dieie is a large tract of line hind extending towards the north-west, bordering upon a part of the Little Kiver Baslonais, which empties itself into the St, Maurice at no great distanee iVem the ruque. The road has been traced fo;- 15 miles and 17 chains, as far as tl.e outer N. W^. boundarv of the Township of Rocinont. Five miles have been oi)ened in the Township of Gosford, and 12 acres in the Townshjp of llocmont. The whole (extent of the road that '.■; opened is pracljcable for summer v(diicles, although it is not yet fiui.-,,hed. The \^-ork was done by liic day. Four bridges have l)een built in the space which is ojiened ; one of 37 feet, one of 55, one of 57, and one of 70, and wiiicli, iogelh.?r, have cosi, about £2:)! The road is not yet finished, and, as it now is, has cost abou " ^ ' 10 p lo on an 1.3 average. T'le lino of the Roarl follows a chain of mounlains h-itnatc d 30or 50 acres to ihc south of River St. Avne. The mountaiiis are wild land, and at the foot of liifin tlicro are :-n;j;;irios in wliicli ll)e .oil is rocky. _Ac;('.)idi;ioint to the river, that is, liow i'A) to .W acres in breadth, by ten. or twelve miles in length, the land may b-e .■=iiitable Cor iigricihural pi.ir;)o.Hes. According to another rt>port by Mr. C'ayer, thtj !and,< to the north (.f the river appear to be of the same cpiality as those on the somh side, and all the lands inlh.is space seem to have been sold. The land ioi- a space of 3 or four ivdles further is barren, bnt covered with tim- ber fit for eyporlion ; and further i^lill iu the valley of the River Batiscan there is some excellent Ja?ut. Mr. Cayer not havin-r been r.ble to commence the opening of lids road as early as \v:is desirable, did not lay out the money transmitted to him, and de- posited in tile Vpi-vv Caeada ]];in!c, at Quebec, to my credit, i^AVd 4.?. lOd., the bahinee ml expe-ided. l'i:e works will be resumed next Spring as early as the wee.ther and :l;e f!;J;' o^ die irycand -^vill allow. COUNTY OF PORNEUF. Alion lioad, Joseph Verrette, Overseer. Amount appropriated £500 Do. paid Overseer JGO 15 This road has been opened to a length of A\ miles; it is ail in Alton. It commences on No. 13 of tlie 3rd range, on the division botw een the 2nd and Sicl ranges, and has been completed through to a distance of 3J miles in the direction of iilack Lake, and on the line traced out by Mr. Bouchetlc. To this distance it is practicable for summer vehicles. The other mile ia practicable for winter ones only. The cost of the part that is fuushcd, in(;luding bridges, was belv/een £34 and £33. The land over which this road passes is for the greater part susceptible of cultivation. The merchantable timber found is the tamarack and spruce, but very little pine. There are also some water powers. Mr. E. Dcfoy, who traced out the road, says in his report : '• From this point to the River Batiscan, the track continues in the same " direction. The road is level enough but stony in several parts. There are two " small lak-es on the the track, but I found a v/ay to avoid them, without going a " great deal out of the direct line." " The lands bordering on the River Batiscan arc magnificent. There is fine hard " wood there, and the land is easily cultivated : through all the lengtli of the " track the land in general is lit for agriculture, and well stocked v^dth tamarack " and pine." " The length of the line of road from the River Batiscan to the River St. " Anne is 31 miles." _" III concluding this report, I think it my duty to inform you that more than »' thirty persons, on my giving them an account of the lands over which the line of " road passes, intimated to me their desire to take lots to settle dieirchildren upon, " as soon as the roud should be made." I 14 Mr. Vcrrelte, Overseer oi , ic works of the road, is of opinion that £400 would be sufficient *o complete it, as originally planned, that is to say : as far as the River St. Anne. As the works on this road could not he comnienced till late in the fall, there is but apart of the road opened. The works, however, will be resumed as soon as the weather will permit. COUNTIES OF RIMOUSKl AND GASPE. Road beliveen Malane and Citpc Chat. Exj)lorators. Amount appropriated , £100 J. Q. T>ESPERANCE, and J. Bte. Lepage, This road was traced last autumn by Messrs. Lesperance and Lepage. The report which those gentlemen have made oftlieir survey is supported by a statistical acconnl which goes far to prove the activity and the judgiuent which they exercised in their researches. The following is an extract from their able re|)ovt. " We have finished :lic " survey of the propc d road between Matane and Cape Chat, and we hasten to *' transmit to you an exact report of the route and plan, as well as of the quality '• of the timber and of the land to be found on the line ihrough w^hich the road wifl " pass, and we flatter ourselves with the hope that the eflbits we have made to " give to our work all the accuracy possible, v. ill meet the full and entire confl- " dence of the Department." " We have been agreeably surprised to find, on a line of thirty-five miles and " three acres, that the hills are not very difficult to surmount, and thai in general " the ground docs not offer any very serious obstacles." "The exterior appearance of this great distance was formidable enough to " destroy the strongest lio))es, seeing that the passage des Crapaiids, has for a long " time had the name of being the most impracticable road in Canada. It is wath " pleasure, therefore, that we assure the office that a road can be made through it " without great difrumlty. We confi'ied ourselves scrupulously to the direction " of the livei throughout all the len->ii of the track, with the exception of certain " places where insurmountable obstacles forced us to deviate from this course." " We have deemed it expedient to divide the whole length of the road to be " opened into sections of fourteen acres each, which we have designated by posts " bearing the respective number of each section." Finally, we refer you to the statistical rej)ort of our proceedings which follows, you can form your opinion thereon for yourself in a more satisfactory manner than you could from the longest report of the result of our survey. Messrs. Lesperance and Lepage estimate the cost of the work to be done on this road at £112 5s. that is, at £12 OS. more than the amount appropriated for that purpose'. With this sum they hope to be able to open a road eight feet wide, and thirty ^i\o. miles in length, the trees being cut oil at the roots and deposited on the side of the road. I must admit that their estimate appears to me to be very moderate, on ac- count of the number of bridges which will have to be erected. This road seems to me so iniporlant, and so desirable that 1 think myself bound to recommend to you the projn-iety of raising the grant to £50Q, in order to be more certain of the road being completed in the course of next season. 15 COUNTIES OF illMOUSKI AND BONAVENTURE. Repairs on the Kempt Road. J. lixE. Lepagk, Foreman. Amount a[)propriate(] £250 do j)riid lo the Foreman 250 Tlie bad condition of the road and ihe limited amount appropriated for the re- pairs tliereot'did noi enable the Foreman to extend the work to the full Icns'lh of llic road, he was compelled to direct his attention to the repairs of the most dangerous and im])a!^sable parts. Forty-one miles of the road have been repaired so as to render it passable. The bridge ovrr the lliver St. Pierra at Lake Matapediac, which had falien down last spring, has been rebuilt and restored to its original state for the sum of £19. The two burnt Ijridgos at the fifty-second mile have undergone only a slight improvement, in consequence of the distance from timber suitable for the repair thereof. It is probable ihat a fresli grant will be needed to complete the repair of the Kempt road, but I have no Information on which to found an estimate. I shall probably be enabled lo make one, when I shall have received the answer of Mr. L(>page to my circular. COUNTIES OF RIMOUSKI AND TEMfSCOUATA. St. Lure, Mdcpds, Neigetle, Green Island, St. Arsene, St. Eloi andBic, Roads. J. Bte. Lepage, Foreman. Sum appropriated , £2 244 Do. paid by the head of the Department at Quebec 1,382 14 11 Do. paid by thisoliice 798 16 111 £2,181 11 lOJ The works on those difTerent roads were commenced or projected before my appointment to olFn^e ; and although 1 have paid Mr. Lepage the sum of £798 IGs. lUd. for their completion, I have not in my ollice the documents which are ne- cessary to ascertain very exactly at what points they begin or end or their length. Mr. Lepage ha;?, niivertheless, furnished to me very regular accounts, arid f have reason to believe that in the information which he will give me in reply to the circular which I have addressed to him, and which I shall have the honor to transmit to you in a supplementary report, I shall find the necessary details to. enable you to make a return to the Address of the Legislative Council of 15th De-" cember last, and to the requisition of the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Lejiage has discharged with much activity and intelligence, all tho duties which devolved upon him as overseer of these works, and I can impute the delay in rendering his answer only to the heavy amount of work, wdiich my circular has demanded from him in relation to these seven roads, and he has an eighth (the Keni})! Road) of vvhich he has also had the inspection. 16 COUNTY OF KAMOURASKA. WoodbricJgc Road. Paschal Dumais, Overseer. Sum appropriated £200 Do. paid U) the Ovcrf^cer by the Department at Quebec ii) Bythisoilice 150 £200 This road commences at tlie middle of the 5ili ra:;go (;f iho Seigniory of K\\v.\- ouraska, in ihe Parish, of St. Tasc^'jul, it is parily eoinph'ted and partly opened, towards the middle of the 3rd range of I'le Townshii) of \Voodbridl,^?. Thirty-live arpents have been opened or coninlc.tfHl in ihc Sei.'fniorv of Kam- ouraska, and fifiy-nine arpents in the Township of Wor»d bridge ; eleven arpents have been done and finished in ihe Township of Woodbridge, eighty-four are passable by smnmer carriages, and ten arpents by winter vehicles. From these ten arpents the heavy timber has been removed. The cost per mile of the road which is completed was on an average £:ob without reckoning the bridges. Nine small bridges were nnide at a cost o[.C-l 10s. and two more remain to be made. The finished part of the road ends in the front of the third range of the " Township of Woodbritige'' where there is a clearing of a little more than thirty arpents in extent. The soil on the part of the road which is opened, althougL stony, is generally capable of cultivation. The greater jiart of the valuable timber has been taken off'. The ujjper ])artof the projected road, INIr. Dumais obf^erves, r.nd v-'c ntljacent lands to whicli this road would lead, would alford resonrces of great vahie to the settler and the trader, for tliere is a considerable breadth of excellent soil, abound- ing espeeiiiUy with maple, in which sugaries might be established of vast extent only G-^ miies from its terminus. If, hereafter, this road were extended to the frontier, it would afford an outlet for the prt)duction of the settlers to a market among the Americans, who have himbcring establishments and considerable saw mills in the neighbourhood of the frontier line on the St. John. At the farther extremity of this road there arc on the Riviere duLoup, two water iKiv.'ers of which one is on the River du Loup itself, the otlicr is on the River Mauie in the 4th range of the Township of Woodbridgc. The Overseer of these works, ]\fr. Dumais, believes that £90 might complete the remainder of tl.'c Road (41 arpents) already open, and with rL-spetn to the further part of llie Road, that is to say three miles and four arpents, he is of opinion tliiU the sum of £350 miglit complete it, the cost of a bridge which is to be built over tlio River dii Loup not being, however, included. 17 Co:;nty of Kamouraska, Mont Carmel Road. Nicolas Bouchkk, Overseer. Amount appropriated, ..... Amount paid to Overseer,. .£1025 .£1025 Tiie commenoemont of this Road is at the extremity of a Road, formerly marked out by the Government, of wliich Road it is a continuation, and it termi- nates at Lac .^ Mi.x'; but as it was necessary to make ac^ain, ahuost entirelv seven mdes of this old road, the real point of departure might be fixed at a noiiit corresponding with that distance in the length of the old road. Reckonin- from this latter pomt, there would be fourteen miles of road completciv opened'^- and the whole distance would be practicable for summer vehicles, till within 'three miles ot Lac u PAisr. Carriage travelling is very diJTicuIt, however, over a lenoH. of two miles of the old road which is not completed, and in which is a great quantity of stone to be broken or removed. One half of the old road is in the Seigniory or Fief St Uonis, the oilier part opened is on lands belongin,'/ to the Crown Three large bridges have been made, a piee "of planking and eighteen other bridges ot smaller dimen^^ions, and also a planked roadway of L30 feet in len-th The bridge oyer Grand River ^!u Lonp, 45 feet in length, cost .C!5, the oilier o^'vei p'v. 1'7- '[''J^ONp,con^mhv^o(G0 feetphmked roadway with abutments' co^t .£20 A third cost about £30 The eighteen others of various sizes, were put up for from i to 10 dollars each. ' ^ The work was done by day labor, and, such as it is, has cost on an averaoe about £/2 [icr mile. ^'"b^ Mr. Boucher in his Letters and Reports speaks so favorably of the environs of this road and especially of the beautiful Lake u PAise, that I ccnnot do better than repeat his own expressions concerning them :— " 1 a.n happy in being abl.^ to inform you that the soil is, almost everywhere of good quality, and that it is especially of a very superior kind in the last four miles before arriving at the Lake. There the soil is excellent, without stones and presents an appearance delightful to the eyes of the many voung persons em' ployed on our works who have taste and sense enough to a])preciate its beaulie. Ihc lake abounds with magnificent fish. The road is already turned to accounV and wheeled carriages travel over it with ease and in considerable number^' Immense meadows, the work of the industrious beaver, till now the only pioneer^ of these solitudes recently a])propriated by mankind, have been discovered in lie interior by the Surveyor who is laying out the Township of Lasalle On these, a good (luantity of fine hay has been made. The whole of the new road 'passes over soil of an excellent quality and tho nearer we appmacli the b.^autiful Lake a PAise the more the soil appears to be adapted to jirofitable settlement and culture. Li this part, we find the -round nearly free from stones ; men have worked on it whole v^eeks with sharo avr« which h..ve not in that time lost their edge. The wood is of an adinirVb c growth, extremely long, of middling girth, and various kinds, maple, biieli' tlo Lombardy and black poplar; but in this part for a considerable breadth it is t • cedar which prevails This valuable timber is extremely abundam and of'r re beauty. It will be of inestimable value for building nuVposcs and f.Miee. nZ even as an object of trade. Fine shingles may be made from its wo' d^' U\l my opinion that there is a good deal of excellent land, to a considerable distance all round the Lake. "I'^uiuLt. B llOO 18 Tliis road, -when once complelcd, as it ought lobe, will open out a magni- ficent field for setllenuMit to ilic redundant population of llie County, and will afford incalculable advantages to those who eoinc into it. Mitny of the young people employed in the working of the road have in my presence; declared their intention to settle near the Lake, Several lots have been already selected although not yet surveyed. When lliejoad is finished to the Provin'^'e line, wlii(-h is four miles from the l^ake, 1 am informed that the inhabitants of Kamouraska, and of the Hive r St. John in the United States intend to petition the Legislature of Maine, to procure the opening of a road to that beautiful river ; and if this project be realized, there is no doul.t that this road will become a channel T commercial and international communication of the highest importance. 1 ;, informed that the French settlement on ihclliver St. .John already extends beyond the point where the road would reach that River, and that the distance from the Frontier Line to that point is scarcely eighteen miles. I am assured that the soil on the American side is at least as good as on this side of the Lake. There 0.re, in the neighborhood of the Lake several water-j)owers, easy to be turned to account. In Mr. Boucher's opinion, a sum of £1000 might complete the road to the Pro- vince line. in k mi C( li si ii a COUNTT OF KaMOUEASKA. Boad i.i the loivcr fir! of the Counbj of Kamoiiraslia, John Hume, Exploring Overseer. Sum allowed, £900 6 It w^as intended that this Koad should commence at St. IMcne or St. Alex- ondre. Much controversy has existed with regard to the commencement and the direction which it should take ; but an arrangement having been ellected between llie parties, INJr. John Hume has been apjiointed, in a letter from Honorable A. N. Morin, dated 12th October last, to carry out this arrangement, by exploring and tracing out the line of Boad. Mr. Hume's Kepoit has not yet been received by me. COUNTY OF L'ISLET. Elgin Road. Charles A. Verreault, Overseer. Amount appropriated , . ... £ 000 " paid to the Overseer 900 The starting point of this road is at the termination of the depth of the Seig- niory of St. Roch, on lot 27 of the 1st range of the Township of Ashford, and its other terminus at the Province Line. It is situated in rear of the Parishes of St. John and Si. Roeh. It is 2G miles in length of wiiieh 5^ miles is finished less 2 or 3 arpents, but it is open throughout its Vv^hole length. The b\ miles are j)assable for summer vehicles, and the remainder to the fiontier between Canada and the United Slates for winter vehicles. The work has been executed by day labor, I 19 it a ninqni- y, and will 1 ihc yoniiij' clured tlirir dy selected ■ line, wlii(th aiiiouraj^ka, Lci^i.-rlatnre and if this , channel '>f mce. I {; I'nds beyond ICC from the ircd thiit the iK'c. Them jc tinned to :1 to the Pro- or St. Alex- icnt and the ted between rahic A. N. ploring and :)f the Seig" id, and its ishcfl of St. led less 2 or ire J) as sable :Ia and the r day labor. in loiiiTiii No irnnoilant bridge has been made on this road, the longest is only 20 feet The avciago cost of the rond hasbcen JC1G3 per mile. _ It will luMvaftcr form a means of coinmnnicallon with the River St. John on which there arc considerable water powers, and also with Madawaska and New Brunswick, considcr^cd in this light it must be regarded as one of the most impor- tant out lets (jf the District of Quebec. Mr. Vcneaiilt cbtimale.s at £.3,500 the sum recinired to fmish tlie El?in road. '^ In a very good report which he addresses to me, this gentleman says ; "The " Townships ol Ashfoid ami Foiirnier are not yet fit for settlement, nolwillistand- " ing ihcir proxiniily to the river ; it is only in the rear of those Townships that " \yc find a soil suitable for the selllcr. This extends, however, to the frontier " line between Cimada and the United Slates. This tract which I have traversed " in every direction and of which I arn qualilied to speak from my personal obser- " vation, is in general very level, wiili few or no siones. As to the varieiy and " quiility of the timber, the spruce predoniinales. Wo find, however, pine in some " (juanlity, but for ilie most part cither cm dcnvii or soon to ])e cut. 'i'lie timber " is generally of middling girth, but of j)r(idigions height, aii evident pn of of the " fertility of the soil." There are, moreover, several considerable water powers on which mills of all kinds mighl c;isily l)(> built. *' These are, sir, the features presented by the tract of country situated a few " leagues south from the river, from which no benefit can at present be derived "for w^iint of roads. A few settlers, however, more courageous and more confi- " dent in liie future have wandered through the forest to this place which pro- " ir.ises a bountiful soil, and have commenced some clearing in the expeetaiion " of a road. Let us h()j)e that their expeetaiion will not be in vain, and that they " will find there a prosperous and a haj)py way of life." COUNTY OF MONTMAGNY. Road in rear of St. Pierre, AxTOiNE Talbot and Louis Bi.anchkt, Overseers. Amount appropriated £ 200 " paid to Overseer 2(;0 This road as laid out, should commence at the extremity of the Commission- ers' road (ItoH'c dcs Commissaircs) at St. Pierre on the south side of South Uiver in the Township of Armagh, and end at the settlements in the Townshp ofMont- magny. About 50 acres of this road has been opened. It was done by day labor. According to the Report sent in by JNIr. Blanchct it appears that a part of the road is practicable for summer vehicles, and the lest for winter carriages. Thice bridges have been niadci on the road, two of which are from 15 to 18 feet long, and ihe third 11 or 12 feet long, Mr. Blanchct is of opinion that each mile of road finished will cost ,£225. According to the information which Mr. Blanchct was able to coilcci, and his own ()i)servntion, the land in 1' Township of Armagh and in Montinagny, Mailloux, Bourdagcs and Patton is w good quality. The soil is of various kinds, the high land is in general overspread with a growth of hardwood. This road will be of great use in furthering the settlement of Armagh, Montmagny, Patton and Bourdages. I 20 TluM'o p.ro good water ])()\vors in tlio environs. IVfr. ]5laneliet is of opinion, that XlOllO would be reiiuired 1o eoniplete llie road; hut eo[u;erning lliis road commenced under the sii|)eriiii<'n(lencc of Mr. Antoiui! Talbot, and afterwards continued under that of Mr. Bhinchet, 1 have not had so ample a report as I could have de.sjred. COUNTY OF BELLECIIASSE. Armagh Road. PiKituE Dagneault, Overseer. Amoui:eL ai)propriatcd, X'.jOO do. paid to the Overseer, 300 Tiii.-iroad eomniences on the south side of South Itiver, in the Towiisliip of Armagh, and taUes a south-easterly direction. In ord<.'r to render this road useful, it was necessary lo improve a road called the "Old Commissioners' lioad," and to expend on it £50 of the money a])propriiited for the Armagh road. A consi- deral^le hill, at the conunencemenl of the roa I rcciiiin-d tiie expenditure of £75 to be made |iassable. 'J1;e land over which the road i)asses is rocliy. Mr. Dagneault, llio Overseer of the work, is of opinion thut this road, a con- tinuation of which is projected some miles in length, will cost -CI 00 per mile exclusive of britlges. 'ilie whole work was performed by day labor, with the exception of one part which, given out by the ])iecc, cost twenty-one shillings. One mile seven acres and seven perches of the road is Hnished, and may bo used bv summer vehicles. This part of the road so opened, leads to a track two leagues in length, which may, tln)Ugh with dilliculty, be used by winter vehicles. This road is in Armagh, but it is possible, though I cannot ascertain this by the report of the Ovc!rseer, that the roacl called "the Commissioners' iload," is not in the Tow^nship of Armagh. Mr. Dagneault estimates at .C250 or £300 the building of two l)ridges re- quired on this road, one over South River, the other over Ln Fourche da Fin. According to the Overseers' report, it would a|')pear that there ir> in the en- virons of this road which have been explored to a depth of eight miles, a consi- derable breadth of excellent land, on which maple, Ijircli, tanvu-aek and ilr jjredo- minate. A good water power exists in the Township of Mailloux, not far from the projected line of road. COUNTY OF BELLECIIASSE. Biiddand Road. Mcssire M. Mailloux^ Overscei. Amomit appropriated, £800 do. ])aid to the Overseer, 800 This road commences at the eighth concession of St. Gervais, and is intended to open a communication between that i)lace and the new settlements of the Co- lonisation Society in Bellcchasse, whicli are situated in the eastern part of the Township of Buckland. It is likewise intended to be continued, as far the funds Ml ill 21 approprialcd will permit, to thu rough and hilly district in roar()f the Township of Miiilloux, on llif line leading,' low.irds the IVonticr of the Province. Thrc(; jcnijaicsof this road arc opcncil, and two miles and twelve arpents near- ly is linislied? The remainder of the road which has been commenced is clear- ed, even tlu; roots l)eing taken out lliroiighout its whole lenijjdi. It is altogether in the Township of Biickland. It is ready for the use of wheeled carriages as far as the llwvr di'sAbcnaf/uis, and is passable, although with some dilUculty, through- out its whole lengdi for the same descri[)tion of carriage. The work was done by day labor. Messire Mailloiix (h-clares that he cannot state the cost per mile of the road which is eompletfd, inasmuch as the men worked sometimes in that part of it, and sometimes in llie other which is still incomplete ; he adds however, " if never- '* theless an answer were strictly recpiired, I could, on my return to St. Charles, " (in a month and a half) give a l()leral)ly correct statement." The bridge over the'liiver dcs AU'iuu/u/swhu-h was likely to fall, has been repaired, ruvl a second bridge has betui built over the second branch of that river. Hut few other bridges remain to be made, and those of little importance. " I con- " sider, " says JSlr. Mailloux," the opening of the road, of which I have superin- " tended the execution, as of great importance in furthering the settlement of the " Country." "Since the commencement of the work, a considerable number of young " persons, and even of fathers of famili(!s, have taken lands there. I am con "' vinced that but few lots remain to b(! taken up. " Till that time the settlement of that part, which was under the auspices of " the Association of the County of l}(!l!eclias^e, had advanced but slowly. The " opening of the road even at its commencement awakened a spirit of active set- " lleinent, and llie persons who have taken lands there are perfectly satisfied with " the cjuality of the soil. '' The road is inlersected, 1st. by the Kwor tant, almost without cxce|)tiou, lent a hand to the " work. 1 think I may safely allirm that the work done by these people excecd- " ed that which was done by the; paid workmen. "There >till remain, howi'ver, some bad hills Avhich it will be necessary to " lower, ami I think it would be a judicious proceeding on the pari of the Go- " vernment lo appropriate y farther sutn for the purpose ; wanting that, all that " has been dune would be almost useless. " Smc(! till" making of these imprcn'emenis several jK-rsotis (six fmnilies,) " have come in to settle, and if the whole line was imi)r>)vecl, Uie immigratioa " would be more numerous." The sum of £1.30 was originally appropriated and ex|)ended. as you may have seen; subse(iuenlly, in pursuance of a letter from l!ie [b)n. A. N. Morin, dated 4tli .January last, JCJ-1 10s. atldilional was anlhorisetl lo be ap))lied for the improvement of those hills, and will be expended in the spring. A pait of iho road which has been imjiroved passes through tSt. ^Marguerite and Joliette, lands which are held in Seigniory. COUNTY OF BEAUCE Lamhton Road. Louis Labrecque, Overseer. Amount appropriated for the rejjair of this road X' ].>0 " paid lo the Overseer lib 1 3 Mr. Louis Labrecque, being appointed to improve the Liunbton rond, and to build a bridge over \hc liivicrc a?/x Bluc/.s\ commenced the work in a very dangerous sv/anip, seven acres in length, in llie Town.-hip of Forsy'ii, where it v/as necessary it) make ditches and lay down fascines. Two acres of knv grt)und near the Riviere aiix Bluels were also vejiaired. To give an idea of the dilliculties v\hic!i the ,>e1t!ers me(;t willi on some of their roads, 1 shall mention the fad lii.af, jncviously to the improvements which had been made, travellers have been obliged to pass a day and a night on the bridge ov(U' the A'it'iYve ou./; /i/«c/s, wailing until the water, which ovt-rilowed the low groiuid, had passed off, and allowed them to proceed on their way. Out of tills a])prcprialion some pails of the Lainblon Road in Triug have also been repaired to the amount of £8 Is. 3d. t 23 The biiil-'o over the Jliriar aiu: Wwts is Iniilt, ami cost £57 10s. It coukl not l.uw; Incirina.le for that .luu, had iu,i Mr. Liil..vc(,ue sucoccdcd in procuring from \hv. iuhaljili.uis ol ihc phico a coiL^idorablc muuiUt of days work. It nearly resembles that wh"ch the CJoveinment built It y-'ars ago. Anoliicr bridge rcujains to b.; biiill whiih may cost Irom LI) to LoiK uo- sides llie bridge which Mr. f.abrcc(im« has buill, he has repaired nearly a mile of road. Thcric various works were all cxeeuteil b> day labor. A mile still remains tc. be rep lired iu Lambtou, nearly two miles intorsytu, and six in Tring. i .i i . :.^ This road passes over a very fme hard-wood country, nearly throughimt its whole leiii'th, which is 27 miles, from Winsluw lo Si. F:aneis. It i^ • of the principal roads which ought to be opened, besides bemg the only road to (hiebee, for a population which is already considerable ; it is a so a part of the Uoad which ought, as I have remarked elsewhere, to be opened irom the IJailroad at Arthab.iska to the River Chandiere. , ,. . ■ i There are five water powers situated in the neighbourhood ol this road. Mr. Labrocciue perceived in it several traces of gold, imd especially ol ^''"^Tlr Labreccine estimates at JC50 per mllo,the remainder of the improvemonls which are rcjuired, thai is to say at Xi:,0 ; but in one of his letfis addressed to me, some time since, he leurukcd that if the Municipal Corpora!u>n_ levied a tax for these improvements p^i'-ti^iil=i''y '» '^''•'"^'' ^^ ''^"''^ a few proprietors possess Inr^a tracts oi land, a smaller amount of public money would snUice. COUNTY OF BEAUCE. Repairs of I wo B: uJges on the, Lumhlon Road. I? EMI BoLDUc, Overseer. Amount appropriated, -^J;'^ ^ ^ do. paul to the Overseer, 1^0 As it had been resohvd ihat a way of communication should at once bo opened between tlm settlements on the Kiver Chaudiere and those on Lake St. Francis and Avimer, and also with the (Quebec and Richmond Railway at Artha- baska, it was necessary to improve the Lambton Road, and more especially to i'-i)air or renew the bridges on that road, which had become very dangerous through age or want of timely repair. _ , ^^^. The late Mr. R^Mni liolduc was appoiuted to repair, or rather to rebuild two bridges on the i/amblon Road, one over the Bras, the other over the Bras Quest ; (these two arms or bran<'hes of the river have no other names.) _ _ The dimensions of the first bridge over the Bras in the fourth range in iring, are 129 feel in length, IS in w^idth, and 17 in height. , . , , hcecond brid-e over the Bras Oucd is situ;,ted in the eighth range in 7'lie t^x Triii'^. Ii is ion feet in lenglii, and it v/as necessary to raise it to a height oi U feel above the high water mark. In his report of 27lh Xovember, Mr. Bolduc wrote tome: " 1 expect to ^^ finish my bridges by the 2ml or 4th December, and I will then send you acor- " rcet description of tlicm, together with a detail of the expenditure, and a list ot " {lie davs' work, cunlrlbated by the inhabitants." _ Rut'his death havin - happened a few days after that date, it was from the Reverend Messire Roy, Cure of St. Victor de Tring, that I received the report con- cerning those works. ■m-w . ■■% 24 Under the date of 18th December, the Cure ofTring writes to me ; "I have had occasion to see and examine the bridges in company with the Deputy Grand Voyer. We found tliein to be put np in a neat and substantial manner. He (Mr. IJokluo) could certainly not do more with the money at his disposiil. I must declare to you that that money has been expended with judgment and economy. Mcssire Roy thinks that £100 might complete the repairs which are to be done to that part of the road which is in Tring. COUNTIES OF LOTBIXIERE AXD :MEGAXTIC Gosford Road and Craig's Road. William Hume, Overseer. Amount allowed for the Gosford Road, • £125 do. do. lor the Craig's Road, 100 £225 Paid to the Overseer for 1st Road £ 125 do. do. do. for 2nd d' 100 £225 Gosford Road. This road was made in 18 12 and 18 13, under tlio diroelion of the OfTice of Pu- blic Works. It commences at the Craig's Road, in the vSeigniory of St. GiUes, run* s'outli over a part of the said Seijiniory, and that of St. Croix, crosses also the Townships of Nelson, Inverness, llrlifax and Ireland, where it inu-rseds the Craig road and passes beyond Dudswell. It was originally well made, but through neglect, had b(H;ome, in many parts, almost impassiihle. It has be(;n repaired to the extent of nearly seventeen miles, tliat is to say, on the 9lh, lOlh, 11th and 17th miles. Si.\ miles of this road are in the Seigniory of St. Gilles, three in that of St, Croix, four in Nelson, eleven in Inverness, eight in Halifax, and in Ireland, till it intersects the Craig's road, one mile and half. Five miles of road in the Seignio- ry of St. Gilles, three in the Township of Nelson, and one in the Township of Inverness, have been repaired. The road was carried on by day labor, and the repairs have cost on an ave- rage £12 lOs. per mile. Mr. Huiue has not built a bridge on this road, but he lias npaired one over the River Thames. There is one bridge to be built in Ireland, for which £100 public money was a))propriated, which sum will be expended as soon as the jMunieipal Council of the County shall have provided by a by-law for the levying of an additional sum which is necessary for the building of the said bridge. Some other bridges require repairs, butof thos, which deviations would in thj opinion of Mr. ilume involve an expense of £oOO. COUNTY OF MEGAXTIC. Road from Black River Slafion (Bccancow) and Somerset and IlaVfitx Road. F. S. PouDRiER, Overseer. Amount appropiiatedir.r 1st road £ 125 « " for 2nd road 350 £ 475 Amount paid to Overseer on Isf road £ 125 " " " on 2ndroad 50 £ 175 These roads are in reality but one, the Somerset and Halifax being only acon- tinuation of the Black River Station road. The former convnenees at the lilack River Station in Somerset, !ind ends in the Provincial road at A'lhahaska, the second commences at the terminus of that road at Ar!lial)asleond road from Somerset to Halifax is also very important to the in- habitants of Halifax and the neighbourhood. Of the sum of £350 a])propriated for the opening of this road, not more than abont £50 has been expended to open a winter-road between Halifax and the Railway-Depot in Somerset, for the conveyance of the mails and passengers. The inhabitants of the place not being able to make this road which is eleven niiles in length, and tiie sum of,C350 not jjeing sullicient iVa- the nec( ssary expenf]i1iu-e in making it, it became nec(>ssary to combine tlie ellbrts ol the Municipality wilh the Government aid. Proceedings were accordingly set on fool in the Municipal Council No. 1 for Megantic for the ])nrpose of establishing this road in a legal manner; but diliiculiies having arisen among the parties concerned in the said road, a delay consequent thereon ensued, which did not admit of the work being commenced at the proper time. !l v>as not before 30th November last, that I rece-vcd the certificate (dated 27th of the same month) from Mr. Hough, J-eeretary Treasurer of the said 3tunici|>ality, staling that the Proces Vcrhnl establishing the said road had been passed by the Municipal Coiuicil, that it had been publicly advertised in conibrmily with the 5lh s;'Ction c. 1)8, 14 and 15 Vict., r.nd that in the two we-ks ensuing on the publication of the By-law of the said Council, no person had signified his intention to appeal against the said Proces Verbal. Whenever, at a suitable season of the year, {l:e Munieipul autliosilies shall have apportioiied ai'iong the iparties iniei(\-7 and seven perches, and il is quite open. But one mile only is in a state to be used by .suiiinier vehicles, the remainder being only fit for sleighs. JNlr. Monfet thinks that the road when il ia finisaed, will have cost £200 per mile, exclusive of bridges. All the bridges, seven in number, are made. The lengih of these bridges on an average is 17^ feet, and collectively they will have cost when finished (the side guards are not set up,) about £\2i). The land over which this road passes is not valuable. It is uenenilly low, 'bu« on the higher ground it is covered with valuable timber, as white pine, spruce, and taniaraclc. The adjacent Townships have a good soil, and are already well settled. The \\ Iiole work has been executed by day labor. 'i'lic entire road, as planned and opened is in the Seigniory of St. Croix, belonging to the Ursuline Xuns of Quebec. Tills load is one of great utility, beiiig the channel of communication with the railway. Mr rdunfet thinks that not less than £735 is necessary for its completion. * i COUNTY OF AUTIIABASKA. Muddington Road. Messire Edouard Chauot, Ovevseer. AniD'.iut approj)riated, ,£SuO do. paid Iiy Head of the Department 300 do, do. by thisOlIice, 50 £350 This road is twelve miles in length, and is opened throughout. It is good and pradifal/le for snnniier vehicles. It commences one mile from St. Gertrude, and ends at the selllements on the river liecancovu". Five bridges, the length of which varies from thirly to forty feet, have been built on this road. The whole work was done by day labor. The enlire road is situated in the Township of Maddington. This is one of those roads which arc; deslinetl 1o be most serviceable to the cause of colonisation, from die ([ualily of the soil, and the exteni of the tract of wild land which il Iruverscs. il is one oflliose, on tiie contrary, A\liicli have recpdrrd the sinalli-st a|)pr()priatioii of public money, in proportion it its length. idessiic! iMoiiard Ciiabot, 1. Av altaclied to the Episcopal I'alace of Three R,iveis, and foiinerly cure ol' St. Gertrude, undertook with a degree of zeal which is abovt! all praise, the opening of this road. Tl;e sum of £3."30 not being sullicieiit to complete the road, he succeeded in procuring aid lo a considerable extent, -ind far iieyond all exix'clation. The in- iiabitants of the neighbouring parishes conlribvUeil not less ihan two thousand days' work, and he idso oblained contributions in money to a considerable amount. .Mr. W-iiant St. Germain, an inhabilaui of the Township, gave in money, £1.3. This road opens a communication which has been long required, between the Townships and the Town of Three Rivers. There are near to it several water powers, out; of which is considerable enough to induce the belief that befi)re many years have passed, Maddington will become the centre of a con- siderable trade. 28 According 1o information which I have been able to collect, a sum of about £200 wouhl be required to complete this road. Some of the proprietors in this Towns^nip have expressed a wish that it should be made a Turnpike Road, to ensure its maintenance. COUNTIES OF NICOLET AND ARTIIABASKA. Aston Road. Joseph PRmcE, Overseer, Amount appropriated, £400 do. paid the Overseer, iOO The commencemenl of this road is on the twelfth range in Astun, between lots 15 and KJ. It passes over a part of the Townshij) of Aslon, the angmeiitalion to Aston, find llie auginenlalion to Bulslrode, and it will be a channel of com- munication Ijctween the P;!iish(,'s on tlie south side of the Si. LuwnMice opposite to Three llivers nnd the railway station at St. Christopher in Arthabaska. Its length is !d)OLit 27 miles. The extent of the road opened is 10 miles in the Township of Aston, and its augmentation, and 2 miles in the augmenlalion to l}idstro:]e. It has been opened as fir the lino between llorlon and Hnl-tretlc. One half of the road may \w travelled over by summer vehieles, ! nd the oilier half by winter carriages only. The work was carried on by day labor. No part of the road bciig com- pletely finished, Mr, Prince cannot stale the probable average eost per mile. Two biitlges have been built on this roiid, on^.' 13.5 h'et and ltii> other 1 !5 feet in length, including piers and ahulmcnls, which eost, the first £!5, ihc sicond £3G, Other bridges will reuiain to be put up hereafter, but \\v\ on down or Clergy lots. The land ov(>r which this road passes, as also ihat to whir-h it extends, are generally of good quality. So it is with the timber which we nieel with, iiotli in quantity and (pialily. Mr, Prince mentions in his report, that a number ol young persons are await- ing the opening of this road, to proci'cd to settle in the Township above men- tioned. Some have even gone in already. Thisroaci is the only nieans of eonnnunieiition biMween ihose Township!? and the Town of Three llivers. and between them and the (ine!)ec and Rieh- mond Railway. There are several water powers in the augmentation to Hoiton on the River du Loup. The sum retpiired to complete the road already commenced is in Mr, Prince's opinion i-SoO. Tlie road though incomplete is highly useful to the inhal)itan1s of the Towii- ships, called the Hardwood Town.ddps, " being, says Mr. i^-inee, a short and " convenient means of reaching Three Rivers, where they transact most of their *' business," Mr, Joseph Prince, who, in the winter of 1851, by order o'i Honorable M,_ Morin, explored the coimtry over which the road passes, the eonsnuction of of which h(! superintended, drew up a clear and judicious report, from which I make the following extract : In all his exploring expeditions, he did no! lind one tract etpially beau'lifid and |)romising, but what he says of a great ))art of what lie travelled over, ought to be known to the friends of the work of coloni- sation. it:a 29 " On each side; of llie road as it is traced out," observes Mr. Prince, " in the " twelftli rtinge in Aston, lies a considerable tract of land of excellent quality, on " wlii(;h we "shall shortly see, if the road is mule, a great many nourishing " settletnenls." '' Oil tlie riglit, as we ascend is a level country, {savanne) covered with red " tamarack before mentioned, and of considerable extent. The soil is of the first " quality, and easy to be drained into a creek of some size which crosses it, and " which, tliougii riuinini,'on a level, seemed to me to have a rather rafud current. '• INIoreover, a proof that that savanne is easy to drain is this, that after the heavy " rains which we have had this autumn, a jiole can be pushed to any depth in '* the soil wiilioLil riiidiMg ice under the snow. To the left of the track ascending, " the i>roand on three lots, is a little higher and covered with mixed wood, pine, " hernlock, hard-wood, &c. ; in rear of these three lots, the ground is lower as " far as the boundary line of Bulslrode ; h(;r(>. is another sayrtn/,'e of suiierior qua- " lily as to the soil, antl the wood, ash, elm, cedar, ik.c. This loo might be easily " drained by the river Blanche at the head of which it is situated. " Ascending the 13lh range, I followed the same direction, still keeping the lateral bounlaries of lots 15 and IG. First we found a grove of pine mixed with a few hemlock, tall and well groVvU, and in three acnss magiiiiicent hard wood Vv'liieh continues without much change three or four acres into the 14th range. This hard wootl extends to the right as far as No. 20. (it has been explored no frirllicr.) Here the wood is free from bnmches and straight. The researcl)es \\iiich I made, convinced me that the soil is not rocky, still follow^- " ing the same direction, and on the same description of soil, about eight arpents " further, I (a'osscd the great line which sej)arates the To\vnslii|) oi' Aston from the " Augmentation to Bulslrode, about the middle of the eighth range of the said " Augmentation. Here we found ourselves on a slight elevation covered with line " hard wood, beech, birch, and maple, the latter especially in great abundance. -*4« COUNTIES OF ST. MAURICE AND MASKINONGE. St. Didace, Caxton, and Iluntcrsiown Roads. P. C. RivART), Overseer. Amount appropriated for the 1st Road £150 Q „ „ 2nd Road GOO „ „ 3rd Road 200 £950 Amounts paid to the Overseer by the Depart- ment of Crown Lands at Quebec £100 BythisOliice 83G 13 1 ^92G 13 1 t. The projected length of the St. Didaee Road is 21 miles. It is opened throughout its \\'hole length, and is practicable for sunrmer vehicles. One part of this road is situated in the Seigniory or Fief of Lanaudiere, but it is impos- sible to ascertain how great a part. The work was executed by day labor. 'I'he ioiiiuunccment of titc ro;id is the Ruis'^eau Plat, its termination is at a bridge 21 feet long, which cost £7 10s. 2. The Caxlon road commences at the Sluuvanegan road, crosses St Etienne, St. Barnube, and St. Paulin, and ends at the residence of Joseph Trepanier, in St. Ursulo. 80 ^"'"t„T.; pn"inc,. of ,he C«,o,. n,ac1 ,ho .oil i= .mdy, .nd U,e timber is ,>.r,ly hard wood ;m<] l""'y ','.;' Y^„,,„i„ „t „cl '" " ",°"''V „,,,,,f miles in l!ie in.enor of ho h. .« ,0 ,Ve 13,h n;-.;, ;'-'^v-^„ ' - t "„," Seignh.ry of lU.nsny, .1,.. so.l « .dp^;:;^! v-irl:™ Sd';;^ho,n; n.e. ..L se.„ed even o rf-h ^^iB'rt t n^ l?:^^::.;" ";o'vor, ...ie,,, .1.,.,. ,.0. very larg. may, nevertheless, bo useful to the settlers. lies and 4 SO feet in .0 I'cel in oncession ngth is G^- imounts to been built :r is j)arlly larcl wood, line of iron aarvy. o be made. ik on ihese ) ) i) mmences in | a distance of ■ wide, and in 2 for summer 31 Bnndon ' m/ 'iT'' • ^V''" -"'-"^ T ^''\ ^^^'1'^™^"' .1,. level ronntrv in the rear of mucs luiiiici, and iliat^o2j would be suUicient for lliut purpose. COUNTY OF JOLIETTE. Two reads ill Cathcart. Laurent Desaulniers, Overseer. Amount Jipnropriated c c-n " paid Overseer '. '''.''^^'^^^'^I'^ ''.''.. GOO The proposed length of these two roads is nine miles- of th-if wl.In), \. c • i ed It ,s seven and a quarter miles less five chains. ' "^^^'^^^"^'' ^^^ fi^'^l^- i\o!h roads are in the Township of Cathcart. The one starts from r »).^ i -i building of which has cost £23 17s. lOd Xi'e a c 11 o . I '^''' ''\^ bridges to be erected, the estimated cost of wi^bh^j^ ^(^^ " ^""^ ^"^"^ ^^^^^ iiu! work was done l)y day labor. some- 'he tim- mlock, Avin/ll!?™ '5"-""'<'^°f I'''-; '^"J «l"-'™gll ^vWch these roajs pass, ll,o„.-l, jvlmt s o„y, ,s susecj.l.ble of cultivalion. The soil is of sood ,ia-i il T roJ^t:^z^:^zi:^ i;:s: t;y:'"^ ""^ "' '"° co™„.„.e™eut or,,. In llie eiivinms tliere-is a large irat-l of vei-y fine land. ^^j^^^AMnostail ,l,e lands tl.roogh whieh .I.ese roads pa.s have been already roads''"'""''""""^'^'"™"''"^^"'" ™'°"' -q"W"^ <" conrplce bolh a o 5 to 40 feet, Overseer, "is | 10 loot of the * ,' maple, birch, t from the 9th r of the latter juv, du; soil ia sited the lands n in ^ii(3 11'^ not very largJ, | COUxXTY OF MOXTC. .LM. Chertsey Road. Ai.EXAXDER Dalv, Overseer. Amount appropriated ... r. p^,. ^ |'»'^'"™- ......■.•.■.•.■::.•.•.•::.• ^^°,?,? "^^ u This road lies entirely in the ToWMshin of DiP-fcm- if No 24 in the H-ontof the Ih ran,,vmd te^.J£;^ L ei^n^n lot No 'i' m the Oh rango. The cost was £53 3s. 4d. per mile. ""'^'"'^'"^ ''^ ^"^ ^o. b, All the work has been done by day labor. The proposed length of this road is al>out Hi milpq r)f ti,;. ^ i n less 20 chains, has been opened. ^ '^""'^^ ^^^ nidcs. Of this only 5|- miles, 32 The two bridi'es which have been built over the north and sontli channels of the river I-rifouarc'iiu are 300 feet in lengtii, and Mr. Alexander Daly, tlie Overseer of the woiks, is of opinion that llicy are raised 4 or 5 feel al)()ve liigli water mark. The brid-v overtlie river La Fontaine is 120 feet in lengdi and is raised S or 10 feel above hiyh water niiirk. There are two more bridi^esof 50 feet each, built ovcr'small sta'ams. These five bridges cost togelhcr £S> 8s. Gd. The land throutrh wliiehthe road passes, as well as that to which it is intend- ed to extend, is good and heavily wooded with pine, tamarack, mai)le, cedar, Mr. Daly tliinks that about three-fourths of the land is suitable for agricultural This road when completed will be of great use to the settlers. There 'ire many very good water powers in the n(!igliI)onrliood. Inconsequence of coinplaiats brought against I\lr. Alexander Daly, Overseer of the works on this road, the works were suspended on the 24th August last, and I received instructions from the Honorable A. N. Morin, then Commissioner of Crown Lands, to cause an en(ii-iry to be instiluted concerning the adnunislia- lion of the said Mr. Alexander Daly. ,^ .. , , ,^ , ^. The inciniry was commenced, and I visited the road for the purpose oi inspect- in<' it but a fall of snow 5 or G inches deep, which happened on the night previous to^mv arriving at llawdon on the 8lh November, prevented my examining it sumcientlv to ascertain the stage of its completion. As to the bridges over_ the river Lacouaieau, those who are complaining pretend that they are not suthcient- Iv elevated to be secure from the danger arising from the iloods ok that river, and Mr Daly contends that ihey are. As there is but one family residing near the bridge, 1 was unable at the time 1 went there, to obtain a satislactory account of the rise of the waters in that river. Before however, leaving llawdon, I left directions to some persons to send me the information re(|uired, and quite recently, I took fresh steps to obtain more satisfactory accounts than I heretofore had received. If I find there is a neces- sity for so doing, I will have the bridge still better secured, provided I shall have had just reasoiUo incur the expense which will be necessary for the purpose. COUNTY OF MONTCALM. Wexford Road. Joseph Lambert, Overseer. ^^'""'"^^':SS!v;::;::v::v;;::;:::::::::::^2o^ o o do naui This rond commences at the front of No. 48 in the 2nd range ot Wcxford,goes throu"-hthe 2nd, 3rd, 4lh and part of the 5th ranges and terminates there. It is 3^^- miles in length and is fit for travel over all its extent. It has cost on an average £47 per mile, exclusive of 1 ridges, which being 705 feet in length have cost £28. The work was done by day labor. _ i , , The land on the heights over which the road passes is in general good, but roclvy and covered with maple, beech and birch. In the low lands there is some "ood"' pine tiinl)er, but the soil is unfit for culture. . n ^ i ^ Mr. Joseph Lambert, Overseer of the works, says that ih-rc is fine land some few miles in the interior. t( 33 Mr. Ma-loiro Grangor, who made a survey in tlie rear of Wexford and CI 'ey, speak.s of fli,; lands that he surveyed in such f: lert- my dutv toi'ive you here « a CO P.V Ins Report. avorablc terms, that I think it On the l'2th December 1852, I f^tarled from il if Ciieiisey, in the rear of that of Rawdon, d 10 6th rannje of tlie Township .11,,.^, ' directing my course towards thi- thi.H tuo lownships, I found a large extent of fine land covered widi hard wood and othertmiber md.cating the fertility of the soil, f oxplored as far as the source o( the r.ver | aeonareau. Further on between the large lake of the same -Kune and the sa.d river there is a tract of about 8 miles "in superficies which contains excellent land, covered with the finest timber possible, and well • adapied to become a rich selth-ment. (The borders of the lar-e lake 1 •icon areau are equally suitable for the formation of another settlement " -ood l-iml"^ "^ ""'''' ^'""''""' ^'"'" ""' '"'"'''' "*'''"' '■''''"■' ^''^ '''^''' ^ •"'■^^^' "" ^■'^'•y " lu coming back I followed as nearly aspossiblo the north east line of Chert- sev, and tlicr<- 1 founda tract ol land about 20 miles in length by about G in breadth winch stretches along the banks of the river and which would make a b' 3 settlement, were there a road opened to get to it. "-"uiiui " ''■''*' ]^!"'' ^i'^'-^not oiler any impediments to the construction of a road and I do not tinnk that it will cost more than £40 per mile to make one ' This road would be about 30 miles in length ; for the lands" of which I \[ 'j'[>ti-e are also a great many large pine trees of very good quality 1 be nvcr can be ascended in canoes at all times durhig the sun.mcr season ih.,-, conn ry deserves to be explored more minutely, and a road shonld l^ opened to render .t accessible. I am assured that, as fast as the road si be made the ands w.ll be taken, anu that a large population of settlers M-il cv r^e in in a short tune ; the more i.articularly, as it is not difficult to p tracts, while still in a state of nature. penetrate these rich COUNTY OFxAIOXTCALM. Kilkcimy and Beauporl Roads. Hugh McAdam, Overseer. Amount appropriated for the 1st Road £130 n For the second Road "\ g . !; " 221 Amount paid Overseer ^18~12 41 The former of these road, lies entirely in Kilkenny. It commences at he boundary Ime between Kilkenny and Terrebo..ne 3f miles of iTh^ve bee, opened but ihroe-quarters of a mile only have been completed, 2\ miles are nrac ticable for summer vehicles and 1^ mile for winter carriages ;,;,^' '"^'"^"^P^-^^- Mr. McAdam estimates the cost per mile at £69 on an z rerage, but dop« no state whether he mea.js the road can be completed, throughout Its' whole ex- tent, for that sum. It is, hovyever, probable that he means it so. M T,K. 1..1 over which | Y;-' p^^ , ; ^^^t'l^^i::::^^!^^^ ^^'"'^lul ;:nti!::^Sn. ofthi. road a. far ns (.and ^^^^^aj^ '^ ^^^ ^^-n- ,age and would probably nol coM nu.ro than l.om i-lOO to 0.1-0. Beau pod Road. This is n by-rood wh.ich .taris iVom ihc lllh rangn in Kilkonny and goer, up inis IN a oy '*,'^^'/ ,.nx-.'..n No-^ 48 and 49. It is a liule uiori; than per mill- ■ 'rii.- wiiili w:i«iuiK'''y:. .<. .1.0 ...,lo,. .n ,l.o l..,o, Mr. MolcUun l"p .l.^l.l.ovi ..'i.cUcMions of no. .„d of I0..I ami o,lu. „>clul • 1 - . ininera Is. ti.\il'U*Kt'.-M*tw'f £200 200 COUNTY OF TERREBONNE. BJorin ami Ilownrd Roads. RoBKuT GiLMouR, Ovcrsccr. Amount appropriated Do paid Ovcrtscer ^ This road e;n of Morin and f-oes towariis that ot iiOWiird. ^""^ Th!-c' iJ£^ aad'lO ehlu^s of thJV.ad have been con.pleteu. A bridge 108 leet - ^^I^\r;od: ^ dclt d;^ lif f • It co.t, on an average, about £00 |,er •1. I ;^r avelled oveH)/^vheeled earriagcs last anUnnn thronghout it. 'mo \^'^ The land in the neighbourhood of this road is excellent. Ihe timber • 4- various de«erintion«, but eonsi.ts principally of ha.rd-v/ood. '" " T 1 nds o vhich t-vo-third. are maple, luive all been already taken It th s 'd vere eontimied, it would tend greatly to promote the .^f tk.nent ot theaWnshlps of Howard and AVe.nuorlh, the former oi which will shortly be '"'" TliL is a verv eonsiderable water power 24 eliains from the eomineneement of the road. Theie^is an abnndanee of lime stone on both side, of a litllestream m '^' "^ Gilmcmr say. that he saw traces of iron ore and that lie ha. every reason , r n ihcr > are hu-e quantities of it in the vicinity. He al.-K, found imca l^^hl^h ":c^tmJr.pcein.cl.) and says that there.arelar.e .nantities of it at ihe foot of a mountain in \he 4th Range of the Township of Monn. Lac COUNTY OF TERRE150NNE. Lalrmta Uoad and repairs to the Lac Bond and Montague du Sauraire Roads. L. E. Laroque, Overseer. •. ,- 1 r . 1 fGOO Amount appropriated, lor the hrst road y --"l:^ ^ ^ Second * J05 Third I £800 85 2;mvclly t" mixed '>y. ud van- goes up )ro than cost .':ii'> iclion oV between lie latter power?, er useful ft-. ■.»■*> Tjmi'.'S'Jl lIic second -e 108 fecv t £00 per >nglu)ut its I'lic limber )n, ttlcnicnt of shorllj be menccmcnt le stream in /cry reason found mica itics of it al mti^e Roads ) ) 3 Amount paid Overseer, l\y Deivarttnent at Quebec , . , ^241 Uy this OIHlc 17 ■} q I) .£410 The proposed lcnj;th of Lac Latruito Iload is 8 miles and 25 chains. It com- ,1 1 c — — ■- .....v.^ ^...x. 40IJ ^.llllllln. 11 cowl- mcnce.s from lot iso. 2,00 the line of the 3rd llan;re of the Township ofMorin pass- es over the North fide of Lac f.atnute, enters the Township of JJores/'ord in the Sjnl range and tcrM)inatcs on tiic North East line c' this Township. The roud has beci opened to the extent of GJ miles. Tim improvements in tlie road at Lnc Rond, in the Townsliip of Abcrcrombie and ill the road to the MonUli^ne dn Siiuvagc, in the township of Morin, have almost all l)e:'n completed thron;i;h()iu a distance of -Ji miles, Th- two latter roads arc practicable for summer vehicles, but the Gi nvlcs on the Dcrcsfvjrd road arc ]>raetiea!)!e on'y f)r winter vehicles. Tho woi;';,, .^Qse roads v.as done by day la!)or. 'fhat part of the roads, which is almost comi);- led ihas cosi, on an avcra^^.', from £80 [o ctOO per mile. ^ ' Three bridges have iieen built over tho Lnc Lett ruUe roud ; the one over tho outlet of the Lake is 2;) f.^v In length, tho cost £8 ; die second, over the outlet of the Lac dvs ^3, coasists of yellow clay, very rockv but fertile. There is a grc:it deal of hard-wood tinil)er on t!ic liigh hinds and soft "wood m the low lands. These nnuls are, according to Mr. Liiroccpie, of the greatest advanta-j-e in promoting the scttleuicnL of these Townships, as well as those situated to the North and West <)f Eei-cslurd. There arc several water powers in Bercsford, as also at the outlets of Lakes Sable and i\Liin. I'lv. Larocque estimates at £400 the amount requisite 'to finish the Lake Landlii Roa;l, and £4U0 to £450, that which is required fbr repairs on the two o'dier roads. COUNTY OF ARGENTEUIL. IVcntworth and Ilarrlw^ton Roads. Andrew Boa, Overseer. Ainonnt appropriated for the Wentworth Road, c^OO i)o Harrington do 200 £100 Amount paid Overseer, .£300 The Wentworth Road commences on the front of the 2nd Range, between Xos. 21 and 22 and goes into the interior in an almost straight line as far as the 9th R;uigo on No. 23 a little to the East of Lake Inchbrakie where it terminates. It is nine miles in length. Nine bridges, measuring altogether 324 feel have been built over this road. The road is cleared of trees throughout its whole length, over a width of 15 to 20 feet. Mr. Boa in his report says, " Although this road wa« constructed to serve as wniter road, it may nevertheless be used as a summer one. It is certainly cttertlmn that which we passed over, fiorn the 10th Range of Chatham, on 36 "the front of tho 2n(l Rdiigo of Wcntwortli, to go to tho point whcro our works "comincncccl." Mr. lloii ;«ays tli;U the iiilial)i»iiiit>* on tlio liilh-r roiul, are poor and nnal)l(! to make their own road:^ and reeonnneuds them to the favorable con- sideralion of the Government. The hind is i^'ood on t!i? 1st mile in VVenlworth. In the five miles whieli follow it is very nneven and ro(;ky, hut on tiie rest of the line of road, a little more than three miles, it is go'nl, less fugj^ed and tmcven and eonlinnes to be Letter in tlie interior. Mr. Sinelair, Deputy Provineial Surveyor, who surveyed and drew the Ime of this road, reports that there is fine timber, suitable forthe manufaeturc of potash in Went worth. He speaks of the eedar there as beiui? the fine>t he over saw, Mr. Boa who had the superintendence of the opening of these two roads, einpl()yed all the eneri^y and aetivity possible in constrneting the VVentworth road. The advanced slate of the season at which lu; completed his works prevented hiin from cornp!etin^' that of Harrington, the o|>ening of v.hich had to be postponed to the approaching season. COUNTY OF OTTAWA. St. Andre Airliu, Rippo7i, and Jfarltoelt Roads. Charles Majobe, Overseer. Amount appropriated ^-25 Do. paid Overseer 225 This read commences at the church of St. Atulre Arclin, pas'jes over part of llippon, and ends at Grand Lake in Hart well. Tlie whole extent of the road, wiiich is 15 miles, 22 arpentM, hain been opened, and is practicable for summer vehicles. Of these 15 miles 22 arpents, cr"-ht miles are in ihe Seigniory of La Pdilc Nntlm\, 2 miles 22 arpents ar"^ in llfppon, and 5 in Ilartwcil. The road, including the bridges, has cost £I9G. One of the bridges must, however, be rebuilt and made higiicr, as it is situated between two very steep hills, which nuist be lo\vered in order lo make the road there as easy of descent as it is in other places. £30 will probably be a sufFicient sum to make this improvement. All the work on this road was done by day labor. By following tho line that has been adopted, the road is the straighlest pos- sible between the Village of St. Andr«i and Grand f.ake ; aiid we were enabled to avail ourselves of the considerable work done by the firm of Messrs. Gil- mour upon a winter road. This enabled Mr. Charles Majore, the Overseer of the works, to open this road for the moderate sum of £196. This road opens a means of communication between the .seltleiuents already commenced on (irand Lake, in Ilartwell, and those on the banks of the Ottawa. It "oes over a country which is aUnost all fit for cultivation, the soil of which is light, and for the most part covered with hard wood. In the Township of Ilippon, one nule from the road, there is a stream and a water fall which might be turned to account. The greater part of the land bordcrin" on the road,' both in the Seigniory of La Petite Nation, and in tho Townshi])s of Rippon and Ilartwell, has been cither applied for or taken by the workmen and others. i- T 37 t COUNTY OF OTTAWA. Lochober and Derrij Rond, John A. Camerov, Surveyor. Amount appropriated £180 The .survey was not in favor of tiiis road, and the dcf ijijii of opcninu; it was given up, for Ihc reason ("xpresscd in tlie Report wliieh Mr. Cameron addressed to me and of wtiieh I here sutjjoin an extract. " I regret that I iiave to inform you, that I Isave been luiable to difjcover a *' I'me suUable for the liiyii)|r out ol a road either in East Derry or in llippon to the " East of the Uiver lilaiiclie, although I liave caused the country to be examined *' in both directions. " The country is niountaiiiouH, intersiecled by lakes, so tliat it is impossible *' to form a roar! in either direction ; it wouhl be a useless expenditure of the **■ money aj)j)ropriated. " Our representative, Alanson Cooke, Es(juire, had an interview with the Honorable A. N, Morin on tiie subject of this appropriation, and wrote to me that that gentleman was desirous that you should suspend all operations until further consideration, and until he could write to yon on the subject, (Siijned,) J. A. CAMERON. ? ! i i T 4. i COUNTY OF OTTAWA. Buck'ngham RoaiL Hugh Gorman, Overseer. Amount appropriated £150 Amount paid to Owner 27.5 This road commences at a point tluee-cjuarters of a mile north from the village* of Biickiiighaui, and coniinuiiig northward for the distance of 15 miles, follows the east bank of the River aw Licure to the north of the Ruisseau des .Prdtn.s, from that point, holding by the channel of that stream as far as the wes- tern line of the Township of I'ortland, it continues to its termination in Wakefield, on the bank of the River Gatineau. Tills road, as laid out, is to be 37 miles in length. From its starting point, ten mih's have been made which are fit to be tra- velled over, even by sunnucr vehieli?s, and cost £213 19s. 6d., that is to say, £21 8s. Od. on an average, per mile. In this sum is included the cost of nine bridges which were built. 1"he balance remaining will be expended as soon as the season and tiie stale of the soil |)ormit. In the precincts of the road, in the Township of Buckingham, the soil is ge- nerally good. The limber is of mixed kinds, pine and hard-wood. The part of the road which passes through tiic valley of the Ruissccm des Prt^tres, from the River mi Lievre to the; Uiver Gatineau, passes by Savannes and Lakes, and the soil is susceptible of a high degree of cultivation. Pine is c'onunoii, and some of ilie hills are covered with hard wood. T 38 COUNTY OF OTTAWA. Derry Road. R. D. AcKEKT, Overseer. Amount appropriated £150 do. paid Overseer 150 This road commences at a point on the Buckingham road, in the Township of Portland, Icn miles from the Village of Buckingham, and runs eastward to the Township of Derry. The whole length of the road is ten miles. The first 3A miles are cleared, (the stumps even being taken out,) and in several places both sides of the road have been ditched The next 1 ', mile being on an alluvial soil occasioned by a beaver dam, has been ditched, and is practicab.j for summer vehicles. The last five miles arc cleared to the wndth i f 26 or 30 feet. On 4lli January last Mr. Ackert wn-ote to me: " The road is tolerably good throughout its whole length, and you will see that I have expended £134 12s. 3d., which leaves a balance in my hands of £15 7s. 9d., which I intend to expend in the approaching spring for some improvements before mentioned. The soil along the road is excellent, generally level, well watered, and well wooded ; hard wood prevails, and there is a scattered growth of pine. COUNTY OF OTTAWA. Templeton Road. Thomas Kennedy, Surveyor. Amount appropriated £ 150 This road as originally planned was to commence " at a point in the neigh- •' bourhood of Perkins' mills, in the Townshiji of Tenipleton and to intersect the '• intended Gatineau line, near the E/naseau du C'rf.^^ Mr. Kennedy continued his exploration to a distance of 23f miles. Through- out the whole distance he found only one swamp {savanne,) 28 perches in width and more than 18 inches in depth. Three bridges only will be recjuired, the length of none of them \vill exceed 13 feet. On the line we fall in with three settlements or clearings each half a mile in length, the last ..'^ing in the 16th mile. Tliere is only a single mill which will require work to be di^ne to it situated near Perkins' mills. Mr. Kennedy is of opinion as are also the men who accompanied him, that the soil, over an extent of 17 miles in length, is well adai)led for settlement. Hard wood is the most c(mimon With reference to the other 6| miles which he visited, three-fourths of the land appeared to him to be adapted to fiirming purposes. At !! short distance from this line there are three water powers, a few miles distant from each otiier. According to this report, the line of road designated would be very useful and seems to deserve particular attention. 4 i 39 COUNTY OF OTTAWA. Road from Hull to the River Baser le. J. J. RoNEY, Surveyor. Amount appropriated £900 The examination of this line was offered to several persons and rcfnsed. The distance from one point to the other (from the commencement to the end) is supposed to be 60 miles, Mr. Roney Deputy Provincial Surveyor was finally commissioned to make the exploratory examination and v/ill shortly report thereon. COUx\TIES OF POXTIAC AND OTTAWA. Ouston and Markham Road. Amount appropriated £225 Intended to commence about G miles north from Mr. Egan's Mills in the Townsliip of Oiiston, at mouth of the llivcr Quego, and advancing to the nortli across the Township of Oldfield near the Trempe Mills, in the Township of Masham ; supposed distance 15 miles. Exploration offered and not accepted. t COUNTY OF PONTIAC. Bristol and Thome Road. A. Stewart, Surveyor. Fromlhc rear of the Townsliip of Bristol to the Township of Thorne, intend- ed to intersect the line of the intended Clarendon Road, length nearly 15 miles. !t had been first intended to appropriate a sum of £225 for thi* road, but the appropriation was not made, because the necessary information was wanting. Afterwards, the line being examined, it was decided to open the road, like all the other roads in the Ottawa and Pontiac, as a winter road. Two persons were recommended to me, to superintend the work of opening this roud. They could not agree to accept jointly the proposed superintendence, and a delay arose in consequence which prevented the opening of the work. In order to explain the delay which occurred to impede the organisation of the party nocessaiy for the opening of any road on the Ottawa, I must remark that several of the persons who had been rccoiumended to me, both as an explorin<>- party or to work upon the road, and to whom these oifices were proposed, having^ lor various reasons refused to accept them, I communicated to John Egan, Esq.' M. P, P., the difficulty which I found, and that gentleman, who had soTne' previ- ous knowledge of what was passing, wrote to me as follows : Montreal, 26th August, 1854. Sir, — Permit me to inform you that I have written to several gentlemen of the County of Pontiac with reference to the roads. I think that it will be for the public advantage to delay the expenditure of the money, until I am. able to nro- cure for you other information which in my opinion will enable you to expend it in a manner and in a place where the inhabitants desire it to be expended, and also in conformity with the views of the Government. 40 Altliotigh tlie amount appropriated is small, yet by expending it in a direc- tion wliere some assistance miglil be procured, there will be, according to wliat I know of tlie settlers, no cause of complaint. I feci confident tliat they will be every way disposed to assist you in opening the roads to the Townships in the rear. I feel obliged by your attention, and also by the spirit in which you execute the duties of your olfice. 1 iiave the honor to be, Boutillier, Esq., ) Inspector of Agencies, j (Signed) JOHN EG AN. COUNTY OF PONTIAC. Iload from the Calumet to the River a la Loutre. Thomas Wilson, Overseer. Amount appropriated £375 Do. paid Overseer 147 11 1 This road conunences -^-i the River Ollawa, near Brizard's, oi)p()site the church of Lc Calumet, and .ids at Lake a la Loutre, at Messrs. Gihuour and Co.'s post, passing over a distance of 20 miles. It passes over a part of two concessions in Litchfield, the whole Township of Clarendon, and part of Thorne. It is open as a winter road 12| miles. It cost on an average JCIG per mile, exclu- sive of bridges. It passes over a soil of good quality, sometimes light, and sometimes clayey. Both fin(i hardwood and pine are found in its precincts. At the extremity of a braneii line which has been explored lies a tract of ex- cellent land, of considerable extent. This road crossing a tract of wild land, in the rear of some which is well settled, will not only allbrd valuable assistance to the inhabilanls in rear of Clarendon, and in the Township of Th(;;ne but will also be highly favorable to the settlement of the lands in the rear. There are water powers in its neighbourhood, as also in that of tiie branch roid before inentioned. > COUNTY OF POVTIAC. Road from the Calumet to Fort Williuin on the Ricev Creusc. J. B. PoupoRE, Overseer. Amount api)r()))riated £G00 U Do. paid to the Overseer 203 13 8 This road extends from the head of the Ca/iimct\n the Township of Litch- field, to the mouth of the lliver Creuse in the Townshij) of Sheen. Its intended length is 49 miles. Twenty-three miles in length have been opened from the Black River to the River Creuse. Of these 23 miles 1 1 are pniclicable for summer vehicles. In the first ten miles ascending by Black River, several bridges have been built, oni' of which is 240 feet long and from 8 to 10 feet high ; another is !?33 feel in length ; a third 70 feet and 15 feet high; finally, a fourth 100 feet long by 201eol high, and several smaller bridges. 4 *. ? 41 The work has been done by iho day, with ihe exception of a section of the road ill Cliichester, estimated at £20 and of a bridge over the Nikabo, a .stream in Wahham which was made by conlraet. The road crosses the Townships of Litch- field, Manslield, Wahiiam, Chichesterand Sheen. The soil is in general alluvial, mixed with sand and gravel, sandy in some places- The sub-soil, according to the report of Mr. Poupore is a clay. It seems that in the back country is a considerable tract of land suitable for cuhivation. There arc liiuest(Mie quarries ill Litchlield and Mansfield, and good water powers on the; Rivi'r Couloiige, on Black River on the Nekabo stream and in Chi- chester, where Mr. Poupore himself has saw-mills. In these localities we iind traces of lead and iron. COUNTY OF WOLFE. Repairs done to the Gosford Road. Israel Rice, Overseer. Amount appropriated £75 Do. i^aid to the Overseer 75 The length of this road, requiring repairs in the Townships of Ilam, Garth- by, and Wulfestown, is 23 miles, of which distance IG miles have been partially repaired. The work was done by the day, with the exception of 100 perclies, which were done by contract, for ihe sum of £1 5s, Every part of this road .> passable by Slimmer vehicles. Two bridges, one 30 feet long, the other 20 feet, have also been repaired. In addition to the amount appropriated, £75, the inhabitants gave 35 days' work. Two other bridges of the same dimensions have still to be repaireti. I\Ir. Rice considers tlie land over which the road passes as very fit for cul- tivation. No water power is found immediately on the road, but at the distance of 4 or 5 miles there is a very considerable one. There is in Southam a very extensive quarry, of considerable value, of chromic iron, mentioned by Mr. W. E. Logan, Provincial (jieologist, at page 66, (English version,) in his Report of progress, in the years 1849 and 1850. Mr Rice consid(>rs that with the days' works which the inhabitants of these Townships will contribute, a sum of £50 will be suflieient to complete the re- pairs of this road. 8 COUNTIES OF ARTIIABASKA AND WOLFE. Chester, Ham and Wolf entown Road. P. N. Pacaud, Overseer, Amomit expended of the £5000 appropriated for the Eastern Town- ships £626 19 3 Do. paid to the Overseer 626 19 3 This road is a continuation of he Megantic road, and must be considered as one ol'the most important in the Eiistern Townships, as it opens a direct commu- nication l)etweeii the Railroad at Arthabaska and all the settlements which are situated on the Megantic and St. Francis roads. mwi 42 It commences on the Craig road at a point which is 24 chains and G7 links Irom tlie lunsseau Pondner, crosses the Township of Chester i/i the Otli and 10th range, thence takes the line dividing the Townships of Wolfestown and Ham, and lollows jt as far as the Gosfoid road. Ahhough I bestowed all the attention to which its importance entitles it, on the opening of I his road it could not be commenced before 27lh September last. Mr. Andrew Russell, who was commissioned by Government to make an explor- ing tour as extensive as it was important, in the Eastern Townships, pnd who ac- quitted hiinseifol the duty in a maimer which merits notice, had, in liie autumn of l»5J,exploredlhoseparts of the Townships of II uii, Wolfestown and Chester, through which It was possible that this road would pass, but a fall of snow a footin depth not having permitted that gentleman to examine the soil with sullicient ex- actness, he himself recommended " a more complete examination than diat which he had made, before deciding on the line of the road." In consequence of this recommendation, Mr. John Neilson, Deputy Provincial burveyor, received instructions in the course of last summer to make a n^w ex- ploration. On Gth September, I received from Mr. Neilson a very jndieious re- port, accompanied by a plan on which the road was traced. These two docuiments prove ma satisfactory manner that Mr. Neilson's operations were conducted with judgment. Mr. P. N. Paeaud, was entrusted with the work of op -nin- the road, and vvas requested, in prosecuting it, to use all necessary activity, in or- der to be able to give up the road to the use of the public at the beginning of the present winter. ° ° Mr. Paeaud has succeeded beyond expectation, on 1st December the work was completed. This road is 17 miles in length, is opened to the width of 15 feet, and cost on an average £33 7s. 6d. per mile. In the report which Mr. Paeaud has transmitted to me we find the followint' judicious reflections, which for the benefit of settlers and that of the countr? round, I shall with pleasure reproduce : <( . " F"'"^^'" t'lC' first to the fourteenth mile inclusive, there is not near this road a ^^ single lot of land which is not adapted for cultivation and in that large tract we ^hnd a considerable number, the nunlitv of which may bear coinpirison with ^ thatofthe best in the p:as1ern Townships. The vegetation is vigorous, the ^^ timber standing wide apart, is handsome and verylarge, and consists uenerally <( fi 'ji^P'';' ^^asswood, walnut and ash. The settler while clearing his hind v.ould « fu c^ '^ ^ subsistence for his family, l)y the mere making of potash. Stan- lold, Somerset and Arthabaska now so prosperous are proofs of this, ^^ " This road is crossed by several streams, some of size and fall enough to supp,y water power sullicient Ibr saw and grist mills for a numerous and indus- trious population." ^^ " It is by this road that persons leaving the Quebec and Ilichmond Railway u tj*^'"^/^' Arthabaska can most easily and directly reach Lake Avlmer, St. ^^ Waneis and the beautiful valley of Megantic. This very autumn the |)owerful ^^ Company of Black and Brown awaited the openin(iuence of the great number of lar^e boulders, which we could not move, and which we had either to blast or U) br''ak by ihe aid of fire, or lo bury." /The greater part of this bridging, a cause of destruction to draught cattle, carriages, anci goods in transit, has been nearly covered with carlh. Seven bridges have been erected on the road : 1 of 20 feet costing £ G 5 ' of -^^ » „ 118 1 "f 38 „ „ 81 1 "f ^^ » » 109 1 ^^ 1' j» „ 40 1 "^. lf)5 The work was bv winter eaui.i-,..^ j p^i 5^., and tlie la^^t a.- J. The first 4 miles eo^t each .-c>i ^.., ''""■ll.tii .In!";; land i. c, cKccUen. ,namy, and ,hc .imbo,- i. for .be .0. road. COUIsTY OF SIIEFFOllD. Boml cn'MV ihe Uo}itreal Road:' Amount appropriated . « paid to tb.e Ovei^ecr. £;2C0 100 ■ , irov ilin i'linrovementof tlie com- TWO bnnchea pound, Imd I'-" '^Pl^l^l^Xpa . mo-!i n-qoiring hnprovomcm ;lTtl;; Kly, adi..neeol ^ont 9 '-^^ItlZ pavties in.eve.ed m ,. »me ffS^:^e^^e;:L^«trop.e,o.^bonH;,e..n,a,,^ A'"^^ ■'';.„'„.!r"o' :r.ori:e -tl'- «;d p..cueab,e. ^A>'^-t' ;t,:;nl ,he .ml>ro^e n s o i ^.^^ _^^^^^_^^^^,^ canrages. About •rue work «%l-:{;;;'!;r,' ;2hW n .'■ >mpvov™u.n. of ano.betUne oi ,■ ^:n'::^.:s:z:r^::;p^ enae,„,cnt. of .be ^^^^ .- JLvoTof 'tie -■•■■'-rd in .he scttletnent of wild and uaoecn- . , ?f ')" ii's « C a!' 5d ftariiJen expended and. apportioned as iollow > . pied Umdb, *'-•■>,"-'-' ' , For Bvld.cs, o,l>ev tba,, tl,o.owbic,l, have been erected on n,adsnc«l> ^^^^. ^^ For ^l^^'^'^^'^<^-^ S;^"dor ::p;n;d;'inei;uiini'bridg;; 188^8 12 For 3;U.i miles of new road eonip!ct.cled to be made. Tiie parties most directly intcrest(>d in llie opening of the roads a|)peared to desire them to be rnade rat her for the purpose of mmuni- cating to you the report of his survey. According to several of the reports which have been sent in to me, ihiTcare adjacent to several of the roads laid out or already made, lands of orciit extent and excellent (piality, and which it is very important that we fc^honkl render ac- cessible to settlers. If with the immense commerce now carried on in the Ottawa country it were possible to combine agriculture, conducted with the same degree of eneroy and able, by means of its resources, to supply the wants of its whole poj)ulalion, the degree of prosperity which this section of the Province might obtain could not be surpassed in any pait of Canada. The Eastern Townships. The Eastern Townships are bounded by the Seigniories which lie on the south of the St. Lawrence, by those which are situ*: ted east of the lliver Riche- lieu, by the River Chaudiere and by the Province Line. Their population amounts to 9-1,275 souls. They comprise the six counties of Drummond, Mc- gantic, Missis(pu)i, ShelFord, Sherbrooke and Stanstead. Within a few years, the Eastern Townships have made rapid and impor- tant progress, Arthabaska, Slanfold and Somerset, which ten years ago, ^\•erc unbroken forest, now support a number of cultivators of their soil, in comfort, and cont. villages with houses that would be ornamental in those of the Seif^- niories. Slanfold which recently beheld its pious Missionary perish, a few arpents from his chapel, in a swamp, over which passed the only road in the place, has now not only excellent means of intercommunication, but alsJ with Arthabaska and Somerset, &c., a railwqf . 49 ■if .t 4 A iui(nl)or ofotlu'V Towiisliips into which our vif^orous race of Fronch Cana- (lions ha\L' thrown ihciiiM'lvi's, are inaUiiig rapid .strides to ovt-rlaia' their pri'de- ccssors, and will soon bu in noway inferior to theuj, if ihu (iovcrnnient continues its work of benevolence and juslicnerally, by the proprietors of the lands, or to convert them into turn- pike roads, if after being required, the Municipal Council of the place shall have neglecletl to adopt means to ensure the repair and maintenance thereof for the future. The Wotton road is an instance, among others, of the apathy which prevail** among people in general, with respect to this kind of work, when they are not compelled to perform it. Mr. Aieand to whom settlers are, obliged for this road, which was very judi- ciously laid out by him, caused it to be completed very carefully. It is never- theless now far from being good, so much has it been neglected. Although there are jsettlers residing on nearly all the lots, which are adjacent to it, it is not yet ver- balised. It is nevertheless the "oad used by the inhabitants of Stratford, Lake Aylmer, &c., to the llaihvay at Danville, and is consequently one of the most frequenteil and the most important roads in the Eastern Townships, Before the construction of the Quebec and Richmond Railway, all the leading roads which were opened in the Eastern ToWuships had a general tendency to- wards certain great centres of business in the interior. It is now found neces- sary to open roads forming nearly right angles with the old ones, taking a direc- tion by the shortest cut to the Railway. Roads commencing at Luke St. Francis ptlOO »0 and even ;if l/ik'- .Mcgiinlic! iind at Trini,', and Icnniiiatiii^' at the pnintu ofilu' Rail- way wliicii lie ncaicsl to tliosc place- rfspcctivcly w ould rciidtT iiiipnrtniit : crviccft to tho srtticrM. I take iho liiicriy of rcconiiiHiidinj,' to your iittontitin ilii' iiiipor- tniici' of the St. Francis and Mci,'anlic mads, and to rclfr to what has been said oflliciii under iIk; lu'ad ol' "jhc St. Friuici?! road."' in tlu; |)arlor ilic roail winch was madi; by Mr. Arcand, is the crossiiif^ over Lake Aylmcr, lor u lon^ litnc impassa- ble in the sprinj^ and antimin, on account oftlif ice whicli is fnrn)rd l>y the first cold of the antninn, and docs not disappear till laic in the spring. A bridge on that part of'llie road is Ih'couic a matter ol' iin|)erioas neco.-^sily. Mr. .1. (). Robertson of the l>riilsh .\t)rth American I^aiid Company, has in- formed tne that the road which the Company had engaged to open in Lingwick, to corrc.-poiid with the 8t. Francis road in \Vin.s|o\v, is now open and will bi) comj)letcd during the eni«uing season. Whili^ I c()nim(Mid the St. Francis road to your attention, I should also bring under your notice the ni'cessity of improving the ].um!)ton road which will really form but (ine and the same line with the St. Francis road, as both lead to the centre of tin' Fastern Townsliips and to that [)avl of it, where lies the largest tract of wild l.md belonging to the Crown. The Snixncnni/. The Saguenay, that vast country against which so great a prejudice has pre- vailed, only because it was imperfectly known, has now at leii;.;ili obtained lh(> important place in public opinion to which its soil, its forests, iis climate, imd its extent entitle it. Its geographical position in the -ISth degree of North latitude induced a belief that its climatu was unfavorable to agriculture, but williiu a lew years, the experien(!e of facts has proved the contrary to be the ease. Mr. B illantyiie.'s letter published in an interesting pamphlet, intituled, '' The •Saguenay" ccailains valuable iulbrmali(/ti on this subject, sidlielenl in itself to induce a i'avorable o[)inion ol" tiie climate of the vaUey of l.ake St. .John. But tho .success of agricultural ojierations in the dilli-'reist districts of the Saguenay, a^ccrtainc(l by the census of 1851, iIk^ ))rogress of Colonization Societies in the Township of Caron, and particularly in the neighl)orliood ol Hebertville j)rove indisputably thai agriculture has no greater obstacles to surmount in Saguenay than in other parts of I^ower Canada. In a tour which 1 made last year in the upper j)arl of the Saguenay, I saw on the 29lh June in the Grand Bni/c a few leagues from Grmv/e Baic, on the farm of a person named McNicol, timothy, which just headed out, was 35 inches in height. The same individual had from .3 Bushels of seed-wheat reaped 80 Bushels, from G Bushels of barley 233 Bushels, from l^- Bushel of oats 44 Bushels, jean Colo of Grand Bni/e had from 9 Busliels of Seed Barley gathered in 31 1 Bushels. Joseph Boudrcault ol i\m Bassin had also harvested from \^ Bushel of Seed Wheat 42 Bushels. 8 " of " Barley ICO " 20 " of '' Potatoes 368 " On 25!h June thcnj was wheal in ear on the land of Joseph Boudrcault. In 1853, the mai)le trees wesc tapped in the Township of INIezy, on the 2Gth March, in 1854 on 5th April. These facts may well convince the most incredulous that the climate of the Saguenay is at least equal to that of Quebec The ice on the Saguenay did not, it is true, break up before the 1st weeJc in May ; but we must remember that tiie same thing has frequently happened at that date at C^uebcc, when the ice has taken there, and if on both sides of the river, at Quebec and Point Levi, the banks rOiC perpendicularly as they do in the Saguenay to th«^ 51 4 4 lioitflil ol 1500 ft't't !iii(l tlircw llioir sliiidow ovrr tin; ici- Iji'Iow (ln|•iIl^' a part ol'lhe 'Iny, i!k' hn akitii,' ii|) of llit; ict* ut (itiebcc iiiiiflit cIukkm! Io occur even lulcr iliaii it now (Iocs !ii tlic >'nii;iionay. We arc nut now to in(|uirc wlictlicr ilie clitnuto of tlu' S!ii,'ii(Mi!iy is r.ivoraMc to Jiyriciilturc, experience lias settled the que<4tiou ill the allirmalive. 'I'lic aiiilior (ti' the cxcelknl piiinphlct, (piotcd above, U9!. For another over the iliver (hi Moulin. The sum of £4,250, of which the greater part has been exjionded, it being in- Icndc'd to lay uni ihe rest as before mentioned in this lle|)orc ; but I beg tint it may be oljserved that Mes;;!re Herbert, who eonchicted the works on the road irom Lake St. Jolm, and whom I consider as one of the most competent men to give an opinion in the present ease, estimates at £o,750 the sum necessary to complete the road, notinciu(hng in that sum what will l)e required to build the bridges, the cost of which is estimated by Mr. A. J. ilnsscll at £3181 ISs. Od. Messrs. Fortin aiul Cimiai, conductors on the road from St. LTbain to Grande Bale, who have likewiic- in their favor the experience and knovvledgc acfpiircd by working on tin; spot, declare that frcmi £100 to £110 will be re(piired to complete the 48 miles of road remaining to be done. Taking the nnninuim, £100 per mile the total sum re(|iiired will be £4,800 for this second road. In order, therefore, to complete and render |)rai.'.icable these two roads only, that is to say that from St. Url^iin to Grande Bale, and that from the Rapides des Roches to Lake St. John, and to build the Bridges thereon, tlie sum required is £11,73L If this sum cannot be obtained from the Legislature, the colonization of the Saguenay will have gained nothing or next to nothing by the expenditure of the sum of £4,250 appropriated as before mentioned. If the work be not complete, its failure will be nearly so, and the settlers, whom a eoididing hope and trustfulness in external aid may have led to pene- trate into the depths o*" the forests of the Saguenay, must cither abandon the settlement or resign tiiemselves to live there cut olffrora the rest of mankind. I 52 If there was ground to suppose that this sum of £11,731 would not lie granted for the continuation of these works which have been conmieneed, \1 would be an imperative necessity that we shall find out other means of provid- ing against the p()st|)onement of a work of al)solute necessity, and I would take the liberty of suggesting a scheme, which if adopted, would place at the dispo- sal of the Executive Government pecuniary means more considerable than any annual votes of Parliament would accord, and which would give greater coDli- denc.: in their future to persons desirous of settling on the Saguenay. Accordinu; to calculations and autlioriti(^s which we can hardly deny, it is as- eenained that, after deducting the lands which are supposed to be luifil for cultiva- tion, there still remains an area of 4,000,000 acres or 40,000 lots of 100 acres each, susceptible of cultivation, which the Government has on sale at one shilling an acre. iS'ow, with the conviction (shared by all those who know the Saguenay) that if good roads were opened leading from the old settlements lo the Uppev District of the Saguenay, the lands in that section would find a more ready sale at 2s. per acre than they now^ do at Is., I shall j)ropose a sligl>t increase of the present upset price, which increase is not only to be applied to the making ol roads, but also advanced by way of loan to the settlers for building of Churches, &c. I would suggest, then, that the '. vernment should borrow the the sum of £40,000 by issuin-' Debentures |;)avable in 15 years out of the i)roceeds of sales of Lands in the Saguenay J)istrict. There are, as we have already seen, 40,000 lots of 100 acres eacli, of cultiva- ted land, which the Government now sells at £5 only, ptr lot. In order to rej)ay to the government this loan ol £40,000, an addition of/-? only to the present upset price would suffice. Instead of £5 a settler would have to pay, it is true, £G for one hundred acres in superficies ; but it is easy to understand how the certainly of seeing in a year the Saguenay open and accessible as the Ottawa and Eastern Townships are, would greatly add lo the value of the lands there. It is not reasonable to sup- pose that the settlers, even the least intelligent of the class, wovdd not pay a higher price, by a fil'tli or even tw^o fifths, to have ^'ood reads for ingress and egress rather than to purchase them at the present rale, with the sad uncertainty of ever possessing the means of free egress iVom the place of their banislnuent. If a moiely (JC20,000,) of tlie sum mentioned was expended in the course of one year in making explorations of the interior, opening main lines of road, and building a few churches, and houses of refuge for travellers, the iunnigralion would be considerable, and the value of real properly increased, at the end of twelve months, fovu'fold. I cannot close these reflexions on the Saguenay, without making mention of tl:e great services rendercrl to the cause of colonization by IMr. Heberl, Cure of Kamouraska, :md Mr. IV)ueher, Cure of St. And)roise, both of whom had the Ciiurage to ])lace themselves at the head of the settlers who first began to colonize t!.e Upper Saguenay. Jfessire Ilebert even passed a considerable time aniongst the settlers in order lo encourage and advise them in their labors, and at ray enlrealy consented, for the benefit of the new colony, to undertake the superintendence of the new road from Lake St. John to the Por/ai<-e cles Bodies. Iti his management of the all'airs of the Colonization Society of L' Islet and Kamouraska he has shown administrative talents of the highest order. His settlement has now attained a degree of prosperity which augurs well for tlie future, but we must not forget that if it has been led into the forests of the Upper Saguenay by the impulse of courage, it is induced to remain there by the sentiment of liopo. (Signed,) T. I30UTILUIER, Inspector of Agencies-. i i 53 APPENDIX. i t ^ ' t i Applications for various roads, addressed to tliis office, by W. L. Fclton, Esq., .M. P. P. 1. For a road from the principal range, in Wo!ton, to the Railway station at Windsor mills. Supposed distance, 8 miles, 2. For a road in continuation of the afor(»said concession road in Wotlon to the Uudswell road. Supposed distance 7 miles. 3. For the completion of a road from Dudswe!! to Sherbrooke. Length nbont 20 miles. Estimated cost £300 4. For the completion of a road from the extremity of Lin^iAvick to Wotton. Estimated cost i^lOO By Reverend INI. M. A. Bessette. Petition of Reverend i^Iessire M. A. Bessette, and others, of North Stukely, for the opening of a road, to commence on the high road from t^hcrbrooke to Montreal, and join with tlie Sianstead, Shefford, and Chambly Railway. Length 7 miles. By AlansoR Cooke, Esq., M.P.P. For a bridge over the River Blanche in Lochabcr. Bv Hon. F. Lemieux, M. P. P. Petition of the inhabitants of St. Joseph and St Frederic, in the County of Dorchester, for the o]);'niiig of a roatl from Bronghtoii to Lalu; Slidiord ; length about 13 or 14 miles, which might be hereafter continued lo Lake St. Francis, a distance of 6 miles. By T. Marehildon, Esq., M. P. P. 1. A road from St. Stanislaus to Lake Caperoliska, carried on to Black River, and thence to La Fugue. 2. A road from the saine Lake lo the Parish of St. Maurice. By Louis Guillet, Esq. 1. For a road leading in a right line from the Parish of St. Stanislaus, on the River Butiscim, to the Town of Three Rivers, traced out by Government twenty years ago. 2. For a road to lead from the River Batiscan to the River St. Maurice, at the point where the new settlements are being formed. By J. S. Sanborn, Esq., M P. P. For a road from Eaton through Newport and Dillon, in the County of Comp- ton. By Reverend Ewan Mcljcati. Petition of the inhabitants of Winslow, VVilion, and Marstown, for the con- tinuption of the Mei>:anlic road to the Lake of that name. I (Signed,) T. BOUTIT.LIFR, Lispector of Agencies. 54 Oefice of the Inspector of Agencies. St. Hyacinth, 9th April, 1855. SiR_When Ihiid thebonovto fonvard to you my Report on llio expendi- ture of ll'ie £30 000 graiiled in virtue of the Acts of the 16lli Vie. cap. 155 and 156, to aid in the sttilenicnt of the wild lands belonging lolhe Crown in Lower Cana- da I informed vou that Mr. Lepage had not at that time transmitted t.. me lijs answer to my e'ireulr.r ; but that gentleman having now given lii^^ answers m tlie most satsfar.torv manner, I inclose to you as a supplement to my kei)<>rt, a copy of thai which lie has addressed to me, relative lo the roads on which he acted as Overseer of the work. _ , . ,. • • ii . The Reporrof Mr. J. B. Lepage, contains also the mtormaiion re(inired b> the Honorable the Legislative Council, in their Address of loth December last. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. BOUTILLIER, Inspector of Agencies. The Honble. Jos. Cauchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Quebec. RiMousKi, Hth j^arcli, 1855. J. Boutillier, Escjuire, Inspector of Agencies, St. Hyaeinthe. Sir,— I have the honor to transmit to you as required, the answer lo the cir- cular sent to me dated 30th January last. , ,. , „ ,1 ,1 On 2nd 8ep1.Mnber, 1853, I recc-ived llie order of the Honorable gentleman who was then Commissioner, to lay out, witli due regard to the value ol tlie k-nd and to local circumstances, seven roads to settlements in rear ol the ( ounly ot Rimou'^ki and to in-ovid" at once for the opening and comi)leli()n ol those roads, the same bein- described as follows, with the intended lengi!» ol eacli m acres. 1st. 1 08 "arpenls of road leaiing in the direction of Menl Commis, in the rear of St. Luce. 100 ari)en1s in Neigctte in rear ol Rimouski. 10.) aipents iiiMacpes in the same neighbourhood. 100 avpi'iils in the depth of Bic. 168 arpeiils in the depth of St. Eloi. 168 arpenls in the deptli of L'lslc Verte. 168 ar|)entsin thedeplh of St. Arsene. 972 arpcnls total length of roads projected. 2iid. There have been ojiened for trallic under my superintendence 873 ar- pents' of road, divided as follows, in the different districts. 1. Mont Ccmmis Road j^'^ 2. Rimouski Road, Neigette ^ *J^ 3. Rimouski do Macpes ^"l 4. Bic do II 5. St Eloi do \'il 6. L'IsleVertedo \f^ T. ,Sl. Arsene do J"" Total of Roads opened 873 55 > ^M* i 3rd. The answer to this question h included in that to the first. 4th. The length assigned above to each of those roads has been comploted with the exception of 80 arpents as a winter road at the extremity of the Nei gettP road, and tlicse roads may hereafter be brought fo the condition of first clas" roads. They ai'> ail made fifteen French feet in width, clear of all roots, stones, and obstruction , rounded off, with hoe and shovel, ditched on both sides, where reeiuired, aid when necessary bridged with wood on sleepers covered in with earth. 1. On the road in rear of St. Luce, Mont Commis, 10 arpents were complet- ed in the 5th Concession and the remainder oftlie seigniory of Lepage and Thi- bierge, and 72 arpents in the Township of Fleuriau. 2. Neigctte Iload, 48 arpents in the 4lii Concession, and the remainder of the Seigniory of Ilimouski, 22 arpents in the Township of Neigette and 30 ar- pents as a winter road in the same township. 3. Macpes Road, 40 arpents in the 4th Concession and the remainder of the Seigniory of Elimouski and 52 arpents in the Tf -nship of xMacpes. 4. Bie Road, 6(1 arpents in the 5th Conce.- don and the remainder of the Seigniory of J5ic and 18 arpents in the Township in rear of the said Parish. 6. St. Ehii Road, 55 arpents in the 4th Concession and the remainder of the Seigniory of Isle Verte and 77 arpents in tne Township ofDenonvillc. 6. Isle Verte Road, 15 arpents in a part of the Seigniory of Isle Verle, 84 arpents in the Township des Sauvagcs, and 29 arpents in the Township of Viger. 7. St. Arsene Road, IGG arpents in the Township of Viger. The terminus is in the Gth range )f the said Township, less o or 6 arpents. 8. The work was all done by smdi contracts, the roads having been all divi- ded into lots of thre > arpents, each given to a contractor for the job. I was directed in my instructions, to shorten the work at the termination of each road, a certain number of arpents, sulllcient to counterbalance the expendi- ture in difiicult places, so that the roads in which the length opened does not correspond with th'^ lcnj;th appointed in the instructions, have undergone deduc- tions on account ol dilRcult work pointed out in previous reports as extra work and superintendeni'C in each road. You will perceive by the second report the extent of road completed. Here is a lab'c of what remains to be done to com- plete each of thos2 roads, according to the instructions given, and the names of the places respectively : 1. Ste. Lu'c, 6 arpents in the Township, 2. Neigetti' 18 " " « 3. Macpes 3 " " « 4. Bic 22 " " « 6. St. Eloi 36 " «' « 6. IsleVerte 40 " " •< 7. St. Arsune 2 " " « Total to be opened 127 7. I commenced all those roads at the end of the furthest and best existing roads. For the poiiU of departure and the terminus of each of them, I refer you to the preceding statements which give the length in Seigniory and Township. 8. All the roads may be travelled over very convenicnliy with summer vehicles, even the 30 arpents opened as a winter road in the Township of Neigctte. I 56 9 and 10. The following is a table giving the number of bridges inoie than six feet in leiiglh, their number and cost, and also the maximum, the minimuin and the average cost per arpenl of each road exclusive of bridges. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 No. of IJi'idgff. LllRJll lllCil- Htiri^ of Bri(l£;os in I-'retich feet. Cost of Bridges. Hif^best cost jter iU'jicut. Average cost per urjjcut. Lowest cost per ftrjjout. 4 4 6 4 4 184 215 182 67 306 286 235 £ P. (1. 32 15 28 5 35 2 16 42 15 40 37 18 £ s. d. 3 8 4 12 6 3 10 3 19 8 6 10 10 4 6 8 3 15 10 £ s. (1. 2 5 2 2 4 4 2 14 2 6 3 2 10 6 1 16 8 1 18 £ 8. .1. 1 5 11 9 1 f> 1 11 1 6 8 1 13 6 On each of these roads I caused all the ncc!;ssary bridges to be made, .so that nothing can im|)ede the movements of the settler. They are 18 feet French in width and of rough but durable constriiijlioii suHiciently level, with squared logs. Those of more than 30 feet in length were given each respectively to a contractor. 11. Bordering on each of these seven roads and beyond them in the interior there are excellent lands capable of suj)porti ng an immense population. The prevailing timber is maple, birch, cedar and ash, but there is also pine and tamarack. 13. All these roads an the shortest and mosi direct possible, and serve equally to facilitate the movements of the resident settler, and the ingress of the immigrants who crowd them daily. I venture to assert that in the space of a year colonization will have reached the extremities of these roads, and extended beyond the Townships of Fleuriau, Neigette, Macpes, Bic and Vigcr. The ten- dency is towards the interior, where the land is of a superior quality. The im- portance of these roads for the advancement of the settlements is a presage of the continuation of the work of constructing them. They afford great facilities for the traffic in pine and tamarack timber. 13. Waier-power exists in every direction quite sufTicieni for manufaciuring purposes, and limestone in any quantity. I did not observe any traces of minerals. 14. I subjoin a statement of the sums necessary to open and complete what remains to be done to attain the length intended, for each road. Ste. Luce, 6 arpents £10 for 1 Bridge £20 Neizetle, 18 " 35 "1 " 10 Macpes, 3 " 7 Bic,. 22 " 40 "1 " 15 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. St Eloi, 36 6. Isle Veite, 40 u u (C 80 100 (C a 126 £272 20 £65 Accordingly the sum of Je337 will be sufficient for the opening and comple- tion of 125 arpents of road, and of the Bridges as above stated. I have the honor to be, Sic, Stc, &c. (A true Copy,) (Signed,) J. B. LEPAGE T. BOU'JII.LIKR, Inspectoi' of Agencies.