Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada . ANOMALIES OF RECTANGULAR SYSTEM OF FARM DIVISIONS Scale 18 chains - I inch See Page 50 Fig. 7 DISTRICToF SUDBURY-Scale 40 Chains=l Inch- LEITCH. FOURNIER Ontario Survey showing Road Reservations, including 66 ft. Reservationsalong Water Courses. See Page 51. RURAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 61 Fixing Road Reservations There are two principal methods employed in fixing road reser-vations in connection with the surveys. The method employed inthe Dominion surveys for western lands fixes the roads as shown onfigure
Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada . ANOMALIES OF RECTANGULAR SYSTEM OF FARM DIVISIONS Scale 18 chains - I inch See Page 50 Fig. 7 DISTRICToF SUDBURY-Scale 40 Chains=l Inch- LEITCH. FOURNIER Ontario Survey showing Road Reservations, including 66 ft. Reservationsalong Water Courses. See Page 51. RURAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 61 Fixing Road Reservations There are two principal methods employed in fixing road reser-vations in connection with the surveys. The method employed inthe Dominion surveys for western lands fixes the roads as shown onfigure D. in appendix A. without regard to physical or topographicalconditions. The other method, which has been used in Quebec andis now the practice in Northern Ontario, is to reserve five per cent ofthe land for roads, leaving the exact location to be afterwards deter-mined. Neither system permits of the proper planning of the roads,although the latter method is best in allowing discretion to beexercised. But it does not work out satisfactorily in practice, becausevested interests are created in the homesteads before the sites ofthe roads are fixed, and the planning is largely governed by the sel-fishness and idiosyncrasies o
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