crHM Microfiche Series ({Monographs) ICMH Collection de microfiches (monographies) Canadian Inttituta for Historical MIcroraproductiont / Inatitut Canadian da mieroraproductiona liiatariquaa 1995 TMhnieal and WMiograpliic NotM / Notts nchniqiMi tt b>blio«rvliiqu« The liutituti hn atnmpttd to obtain tht bast original coi>y available for filmin(. Faaturas of this copy which may ba biMiographically uniqua, which may altar any of tha imaga* in tha reproduction, or which may significanlly change the usual method of filming, are checked below. L'Institut a microfilmi le meilleur axempleire qu'il lui a M passible da se procurer. Les details da eet axemplaira qui soiit peut4tre uniques du point de >u bibNogrephiqua, qui pauvant RHMlif ier une image reproduita. ou qui pauoent exiger une modification dam la mMwde normaia de f ihnage sont indiqutt ci-dessous. Coloured covers/ Couverture da couleur D D n n n n I I Tight binding may causa shadows or distortion Covars damagsd/ Couvarfura aiMlomniaBia Covars rastorad and/or laminatad/ Coinarttira rattsurte at/ou pallicuMa Covar titia missing/ La titra da couvartura manqua Colourad maps/ Cartas gtoy a phiquas an coulaur Colourad init the French River thtuugh Lake Nipissing, Trout Lake, Turtle Lake and Talon Lake to I.odc Nr>.6 in the Canal around Talon ami r.irtsseuxChiilts.a.l.s nice f69inilci!. The Summit level will be through a chain of beautiful lakes connected l>y sh..rt stretches of canal, and will be maintained at nearly a constant level by re, ulating works at either end. Fror lie upper Lock of the Paresseux C»nal down the Mattawa to its junction with the Ottawa, a distance of 14 j^ miles there is a fall of 137 feet which is to be taken care of with 5 locks. From the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa to Fort William, about 81 miles, the river is a series of deep narrow lakes separated by rapids having a., aggrecate fall of 145 feet, which it is proposed to overcome by the construction of 7 locks. The Mattawa and Ottawa above Fort William have high steep banks and can be regulated at snch elevations of water surface that but little excavation will be needed except at the sites for locks and dams. From Fort William through the Culbute and Calumet channels to the head of. Lake Des Chats, (56 miles) the River falls 115 feet and will require 5 lo'-ks. From Lake Des Chats the River falls 155 foet at the Chats Falls requiring 2 locks, with which exception the River needs but little improvement between ( heneaux Rapids and Des Chenes Rapids, a distance of 47 miles. From Lake Deschenes to the long reach of level river below Ottawa there will be a fall of 72 feet requiring 4 locks In the vicinity of and below the City of Ottawa, the existing water levels will not be materially changed, except to regulate the fluctuation of water levels so as to reduce range between high and low stages nf the river. In the Grenville Canal there will be a fall of 41 feet, requir. ing 3 locks ; and in the Carillon Cana! a fall of 20 feet, to be overcome with one lock. At St. Annes a lock with a 3 foot lift will be required and in the Lachinc Canal there will be a fall of 45 feet for which 3 locks will have to be provided. All of the structures, for the entire route can b. founded on rock in a most substantial manner, and the power necessary for operating locks, lighting and pumping, can be generated at small expense at the respective sites. SURVEYS, SUtemenU of Consulting Engineer and Engineer incharge. MR. WISNER'S STATEMENT, Ottawa, March 7th, 1902. The .Vrontreal, Ottawa & Georgian Bay Canal Ca.Ottawa. Gentlemen-ln compliance with your request for a state- ment relative to the data on which plans and estimates of cost of the proposed Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal have been based, I have the honor to state that there are accura • surveys covering practically the entire route, made under the direction of some of the best hydraulic engineers of this country The fact that the earlier surveys were made by such able engineers as Mr. Walter Shanly and Mr. T C. Clarke is a sufficient guar- antee that the data is absolutely reliable. Thorough examina- tions have been made of the maps and records of those surveys and so far as suitable they have been used in making plans for J waterway twenty feet deep, and where not sufficient for such purposes additional surveys .nd investigations have been made so that an accurate map of the proposed waterway has been completed, and a profile constructed showing the elevations of the water surfaces of the different reaches of the canal and the elevations of the earth and rock where excavation is necessary In making these later surveys, some of Mr. Shanly's bench marks were found, the elevations of which closely agreed with the earlier determinations. From the maps and proffies of the propoaed water- way the amount of earth and rook to be exoavatwl haa been computed and the oost of doing the work deter- mined. The unit price, used are based upon the experience of someofthemort successful contractors in Canada and in'the Un,ted States. The total distance f™m Georgian Bay to «pw,th locks, forty m.Ies of canal section 22 feet deep with a h«.om „.dthof .oofeet, 74 n,i,es of improved river channel w^th a bottom w,dth of 300 feet, and 307 miles of open lake and nvcr, suitable for 20 foot navigation without further im- provement. The cost to instruct the waterway from Ger-rRian Bay to Ste. Anne's on the St. Lawrence river has been estimated at »69,500ooo,and from Ste. Anne's to Mont/eal at 810,500000 n-akmg a total of $8o,ooo.c<» The cost of the section through l^ke St. Louis is based upon the material to b. excavated being largely of rock, and wil be con.siderably reduced if much of the excavation is f„und to be of soft material. The data upon which the plans ar,. based have been obtain ed under the direction of .some of the mosr experienced engineers in the country and the results of their investigations p.blished and distributed m the reports of the Department of Railways and Cominy '" '"' '"''""■''"' ''"'''" P"'"'''"^'' ^^' ""= ^^nal In the earlier investigations of the waterway, channel depths of only from nme to twelve feet were contemplated, the requirements for which are entirely different from those for wenty-foot navigation. In the former case the natural depths of the nver were ample for most of the distance between terminals and only required the necessary structures for passing rapids Todeepen these channels sufficiently for a 20 foot navigation without raising the water surfaces would be an expensive pro- ceeding, and one which would not be considered seriously by any.engmeer familiar with the conditions. With the proper arrangement of locks and dams as shown upon the plans and profiles which .have been prepared by the Company, the water surfaces of the river can be so raised and regulated that the total distance to be improved between Georgian Bay and Mont- real will beonlv .18 miles, including thesuinmitcutatNipissing The raising of the water surfaces of the different reaches of the nver will give the necessary depth for 2C.foot navigation at small expense compared with that necessary to excavate the channel m the nver bed, and at the same time by increasing the ■cross section ofthe river channel will diminish the velocity of the current at times of flood so as to make navigation easy and Mfe. In all place, where excavation will be neces-ary in the bed of the nver a bottom width of 300 feet has been used in the estimates, corresponding with the channel widths of the improv- ed portions of the rivers in the Great Lakes system. Anyone who has made a study of the commerce passing through the St. Mary's and Detroit rivers, can ieadily\^alize the immense amount of traffic which will unquestionably pass ■over H,e route as soon as it is completed. Since the opening of the Weitzel lock at the Soo in .881, the traffic has doubled once every SIX years, and in 1901 reached the enormous volume of 28,400,000 tons. With a waters ay from the upper lake cities to ocean navigation at Montreal of only about the same distance as to Buffalo, and if compietedto New York by Lake Champlain and the Hudson river at least one hundred miles shorter than by any other proposed route from the lakes to that city there can be no question that with transportation rates of less than one-tenth per ton mile of the rate necessary on railroads, the volume ol traffic on the proposed waterway will exceed 8 000000 ' .tons annually, and gradually increase as new commerce develop.,. Respectlully submitted : GEO. Y. WISNER, Consulting Engineer MR. MACLEOD'S ESTIMATE. I have examined the estimate under the supervision of Mr. Wisner which exceed, my estimate by $7,000,000, cnsed prin- cipally by wdenmg the base of excavation to 300 feet in cer- hTk '1!:.'°"'"'"""''""°"''' ''"" *■" '"■"den lock ^ates. andjhe additional provisions made for regulating the floo* From my knowledge of the difficulties to be overcome, and knovving that there arejlong distances of sufficiently deep water besides the additional depth to be gained by raising the water^ a^proposed, I consider that Mr. Wisner's estimate is suffi- The length ,.f the canal, according to Mr. Clarke's report ■s 430 miles, which has been considerably shortened, as a re- sult of recent surveys. HENRY A. F. MACLEOD, M. Inst. C. E., Engineer in Charge- Professional Record of Mr. Qeo. Y. Wlsnsr, CItU Englnser of Detroit, Wsh., Consultingr Bnglneer of the Company. ,««,"'■ i,*^""!''""'"*"^ ■••oinl=i.pn«, from th. Unhmil, of Michipn i». I»S, »h.re, dnnng hi. mm, ,«, in ,h. uni«n«,, he «u honor.) b,b.fac •ppoinled«iii«unlpiofa.ot in engineering. From .865.01880 (IS ,,.„) he ,„conne«ed with the goreroment .orver^ «d in™».p,,i„n. on the Ore.. Uke. .nd the Mi«i™ppi Ri„r ,i,h reference .0 thT S^nll'^rlr *■'"""■"' •" """""«:'" -'•■" "" •- '»■"">«■«"' .^-.h'"" "f" '°^" "" '•" 1^" «»K"B«' ta "-e p,i,.,e pr«.ice of hi. profeuion, logether mth the dutie, ,ru,„g f,om hii .ppoinlmenti u memhe. .nd olherwi,, on nnotu govrrnment contmiMion!. Among other importnn. work! of .hich he Dat DM cnarge are : . .. ''*'."!'"^'"'"'"'""«"i'>°"rt"' "'««■>« lolheentorpmeni of the IMinoi. Md HKhgu etz , with report on pUn.«nd«imale«. .Survey,, e..min.lioo end report nponlh.propo«d improvement of the D... Ptauie. ud ni.no„ri,e,M„TOlringmMyof,h,p,obtan,e«„„„,o,h, o.l..» .„Hr°""''„'"''J?""*"''""'°"'""'"''"W'"'" **'•"" M^Phl.. Ten». s,J"Ctr.;:;::rr'"" '"""'"'■'"'' ■■"■ ■"""» - "- •^-"-^ prLtkallit " ''""'""'"""■■"Sin.ers „,„l aha„.l„™,| ,1,, i„,„„,.,„e„. n, im- ^^JW,.lti„E engineer fo,th.Ar.,„.,.„|.a.slI»,|>„,eo„fa„,, ,, A„n«.s I'aa,, Ifvel „f the I,™, Lake-,a„,l ar,e„|,po;„„„.„, ,, y ,y ^. j,„.4s,™ L„ ija,e^.„,.,„e„ „„ p.„, ,„„ „ ,. .- ,„,,L., ^.j.^i:;:-:. •;The ,.i,i„g „„,! e„„,ervi„u „l ,hc w°," i„,l „r ,|,e ,;,„, lakes i, a ,„„„e. of v... n,p„„a„ce, ,„dee,l of vi.al nece.M.y. ,„ ,l,c inu-rnale „„„.,r ,C^^ T^ plan ,„, .,v„„p,,Hing ,his, aU.ve s,,,,,..,,,,,, „ „ ,He .,„„„„„ „f ,„;„ ^g u^.denBmee,s;.„d,„view„r,he „,»s,u,„.e ol ,he i,„ ,e,„ i„volv„l yZ con„^ee^,d,espec„„,l,.c„™„e„„,ha,,he„.„,a,i„„ ,.e favo.l.ly ,c orC! m,e,ll^Geor6eY.Wi,„er, civil engineer, of De„oi,, and Th„„,a, T. /ohnwn lepon" '"" ™eB«"»»»"«y contain , ha, , hey .,e incorporated in , hi, Membe. of the United State, Board of fnijineer, oh Deep Walerwa,, ito- pU™.„d c,»,f„,. d«p..,„„a, fro™ the lake, to the Atlantic Thi, i„.e,t. «.t.on,i^,„l,.d the «,lul,„„ of engineering prolJem, -nuch more diBcIl than an,. ^;' T^rr°'J"»'""'""°'^''"°"""'''0'"'"'* ^^'B™ B»vwa,er way. The held and office work of the investigation wa, ander Mr. Wi,ner's per»„al wperruion. and the exhaa.tive report on the work recently published by the United S..t« governmn,. i. largely the re.alt, of Mr. Wi,ner', labor and writing, .,.., "." "'*", °T"' """*" °" '** '"'" •"'"" '""" "" "■"'>'0«ioh of the g«« «n.,a,y canal a, Ch.cago..„d arbitrator appointed by the High Conrt of In„iee ,hed?rf°^l""A ° "'•'":' •""■'•■^'B" between the water con-miMionir. of l..c.t,ofL«i«l»,Onl., and the owner of the water nght, affected by back water from the waterworks dun at London. M«Dber of comminion of eapert engineer! appointed by the city of s, 1^^ Mo., to. report! on: plan, and eit.nute, (for obtaining a p„,e and whole! •ome jupply of ..ler for that city, inwl.iog work, which will coat over $,c,ooo ooo. . Mr Wi.,«. ha> been a memlter of the African Society ol Civil Engineer, for aS year.,«,d to. a n.mUr of year. wa. a number of the board of director, of the society Mr. Wianeri. the author of nueneron. paper, and repom on important en- |in.en,H[pjo,„ta,,h,ch have been p»bli.h«l In ih. l,.n«clio„, „( the American Society of a..l Engineer,' committee, and of therengineer department at WaJiington yrofesslonal Hecort of Mr. Henry A. P. BMUod, ■. ta,t. C. E.. Ottawa, En^neer in Charge M,. M«Uodw„e.,„„,e,i„ Upo., C.n,d. College. From .8.1 to .8u he »K«n. K,„,, B. C, through .he 1'e.ce Kiver eounlr, to Winnipeg, ,879, .nd h.d ing oMhl^'slt; '", »"' rt"? '7 "*'*' •" "»°"»»'i™ f" 'ho »i».er c,o«,. .iMh?,..::rrr;.rrx"°' """''' - "'"^- ■- -"'"'■■"'•' •pj^ ehX^^X^^jz^or^i'tTir '" "- ■^'- "" .nd lhT,'!!7h'°' "*"'•' "'""" """" "" """l-wMt .e„ilom., .he Pe.M Ri.er »„„.„ P^iJ^.ret;„„r ""'''■'""*"" B»V "■■-'. in J.iy, ,8^. Thi. com. «rp:hLh':;in .'i,;.'"-"'"'" "-'''-'" '"^'"'"''" T--- -Ke. The ,epo,. C.nal,,„f,heOlta».R„e,,f,„„,|,e lock al Sic. Anne', 10 Lake Deschene. 8 The report « published m .he annual report ol niHw,y, and canal, lo, 1899..500. ■,a.if,i .TT""'"" 'PP'°"°»" "»"" •he whole canal for^,.^ l»57«nd t86o, and .nformation recently obltuoed, a, the basis lor computation In September, 1900, he continued the Ottawa river surveys, the part exam- «.be,ng the RocherFendu and Calumet, also th- Culbut. »d A,l«ret,e ohan- nel. Thi. report ,s published in .he.nnual report of 1900-.90. He also made an estimate for JOfoot navigation for the whole canal in 1901 ijl^'^^"'"' " " """ '" ■*■'''"' ""''S'"""- " P"l'"»""'l 1" 'I" »"nual report foi Mr H 'a 'p"?"' '■' ".""l""'"'! "'• ^""e' V. Wisner, consulting engineer, and Summo '^""'""■,' ■ '"■'■ f^- >= ' ™ »n-amination of the French River, als^ the Summit section, au.lllie .\iaiT,«an River. . of "'A '"•'.'■"'''"■"••■"'•-■"■"'"' '"'"""ion of Civil Engineers, London, atld of the Cana,p„„„„i „, R^ii^.^^ j. c„,,,_ " •'I' At present in charge, a, resident Engineer for the Renfrew Power Company :nrtatio.i. but will ,«rmit work to be carried on along the whole mute simult.in.-o isly. The use of powerful explosives, and the most modern appliances in dredging. e.«a- vating. and construction machinery will lead to great savings in cost as compared with the methods in vogue at the time esti- mates of cost were made .some years ago. and will offset to some extent the added cost of the larger scale of navigation The need of the Ottawa waterway both as a through route and for the development of local resources is vastly greater than' ever before. The marvHlou* growth of the Western States and our own Northwest in the last quarter of a century and the ci -sequent increa.se of commerce on the Great Ukes have given rise to a freight traffic between the Great Lakes atid the sea-board, already -.f enormous extent and rapidly increasing such as must in the near future tax all possible means of trans-' portation, and in the conveyunce of which the Ottawa River It route, owing to it. .upe.rkin.;,' of its c.>:tensive dcpisits of iron. .As th; deep channel at the Sault has resulted in an output of us.ooo.ooo tons of ore from the .American shores of Lake Superior in the last 17 years the Otta«a Waterway will lead to an enormous increase in the ircm raised 1 this part of f lanada, and will be of great importance in bringing it alongside the coal of .\ova Scotia. Nova Scotia coal has hitherto not ascitndcd the St Law- rence to any extent above Montreal, to which p ,,t the shipments amount to 700,000 toils. Ih exiic.isc and loss incident to traTis-shipment and the competition of .American coal have prevented any further extension of the market for t,'an,irtion of Ontario stretching ,dj the wa>- from the Quebec houndan to the Manitoba bou.i.lary.includin;; the richest mineral .listrict of the province wdl be served by the can.ll. Going up the St. Lawrence, C.iiiadiaii cord directly meets the .American competition. I'Acry cnile travelled west is a mile into the terri- tory .if .\incrican co.d shipp;-rs, but a journey of 400 miles n|i the Ottawa brings the coal carrier within a lew miles of Sudbury to th"- '■dgc of posaibly the ;.jreal-..-sl iiiincr.il arra in ICasterii Canada, anil 200 miles mure brings him to the 'S ' There 20 is also no reason why grain should not be taken from Fort William to Sydney. It could be stored there and shipped all the year round; would be a thousand miles closer to Liverpool than it would be at New Vork, and the vessel could be sure of a return freight of coal. The opening of the Ottawa navigation as a through water- way is not only a commercial necessity but a measure of Natio- nal and Imperial Imporfince. Of military importance us the only possible waterway bet- ween the Great Lakes and the Atlantic entirely within Canadian territory. Ot national coiisefiieitce AS furnishing an additional bond and means of communication between widely removed portions of the Dominion, carrying farther northward the line of settle- ment, and of profitable commercial and industrial operations and thus tending to add compactness to our territory and to cement together more firmly its parts. And of Imperial value as part of the transcontinental trans- portation .system, a link in the shortest possible highway between the granary of th= Northwest and the British market. j^^oef::*!;: w^i%.3ms%T^mr:^mm^f^r- • wk