Apr 042013
 

Despite the detail provided in our letter here, the Ministry of Natural Resources replied that for the portage to warrant protection under Section 65(4) of the Public Lands Act, they require “early surveys, maps or documents” as historical evidence that this portage was “in place prior to the initial Crown patent”.

Accordingly, we provided this letter, which provides the requested information.

The MNR still refuses to believe this because all they could do was send an e-mail to the MNR map office who couldn’t find anything. Folks, sometimes you need to look for things farther away than your keyboard, some information is more difficult to find than clicking a mouse. I had to spend days at the Archives of Ontario and travel to Ottawa to Library and Archives Canada. But the information is out there and I’ve provided it, but the MNR still refuses to acknowledge it.

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