Preliminary Report on Gowganda Mining Division District of Nipissing Ontario

by W. H. Collins

GOWGANDA MINING DIVISION

DISTRICT OF NIPISSING, ONTARIO

BY

W. H. Collins.

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INTRODUCTION.

LOCATION AND AREA.

The portion of the Montreal River region with which the present report deals lies in the extreme western part of the District of Nipissing, in the neighbourhood of N. Lat. 47·45, and about 85 miles north of the town of Sudbury. It includes an area of 350 square miles, most of which lies between the two large branches of the Montreal river, which empties into Lake Timiskaming on the west side.

STATEMENT OF WORK.

The Algoma-Nipissing boundary line was run in 1897 by Alexander Niven, O.L.S. These surveys, with representations of some of the larger lakes, had been compiled by the Geological Survey of Canada on a scale of 16 miles to one inch;[^[1]] and on a scale of eight miles by the Crown Lands Department of Ontario. With these as a guide and summary of the existing geographical knowledge it was decided to make a micrometer and prismatic compass survey of both branches.