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The DPHO assigned internal highway numbers to roads in the system, and in 1925, the numbers were signposted along the roads and marked on maps. In 1930, provincial highways were renamed King's Highways and the familiar crown route markers created. The DPHO was also renamed the Department of Highways (DHO).
The Northern Ontario Resource Trail (NORT) is the designation of two [3] mainly gravel roads in the Canadian province of Ontario. One road travels north from Pickle Lake to the northern shore of Windigo Lake , then to the North Caribou Lake First Nation at Weagamow Lake .
The Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Upper Canada was established in 1827. [9] By the 1840s, however, the crown lands department had been established over which the Commissioner presided, and by 1860, this was renamed the Department of Crown Lands. The primary responsibility of the department was the sale and management of public ...
The Commissioner of Crown Lands was a member of the Executive Council for the Province of Canada responsible for administering the surveying and sale of Crown land, the forests, mines, and fisheries of the Province. From 1841 to 1867 the Department of Crown Lands was the biggest of the Province of Canada's departments.
The act to establish Algonquin Park was drawn up in 1892 by this five member Royal Commission, made up of Alexander Kirkwood (the chairman and Commissioner of Crown Lands), James Dickson (Ontario Land Surveyor), Archibald Blue (director of mines), Robert Phipps (head of the Forestry Branch), and Aubrey White (Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands).
The land that comprised a row of lots that spanned the entire length of a new township was "conceded" by the Crown for this purpose (hence, a "concession of land"). Title to an unoccupied lot was awarded to an applicant in exchange for raising a house, performing roadwork and land clearance, and monetary payment. [ 1 ]
Over half of the land in the region is designated crown land. Carlow and Mayo were named after the counties of the same name in Ireland ( County Carlow and County Mayo ). Communities within the municipal boundaries include: Bessemer, Boulter, Childs Mines, Craigmont , Fort Stewart, Hartsmere, Havergal, Hermon, McArthur Mills, New Carlow, and ...
Commissioner of Crown Lands may refer to: Commissioners of Crown Lands (United Kingdom) Commissioner of Crown Lands (Australia) Minister for Lands (Western Australia) Commissioners of Crown Lands (Province of Canada) Commissioners of Crown Lands (Ontario)