Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 | Page 6

2,328 13 7 River Ottawa 35,603 16 3 Bay of
Chaleurs Road 15,726 16 11 Gosford Road 10,801 10 10 Main North
Toronto Road 686 19 4 Bridges between Montreal and Quebec 20,860
19 11 Cascades Road 13,287 19 6 London and Sarnia Road 19,837 5
11 London and Brantford Road 36,182 18 5 London and Chatham,
Sandwich and Amherstburgh Road 12,789 0 1 River Richelieu 92 4 0
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Certified to be a true abstract of the accounts of the Board of Works.
Thomas A. Begly, Sec. Board of Works.
Hamilton H. Killarly, President Board of Works.
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The estimate for 1845 was 125,200, as may be seen by the following
report of the Inspector General of Canada, as laid before Parliament:--
PUBLIC WORKS.
CANADA WEST.
For present repairs to the Chatham Bridge £100
For improving the Grand River Swamp Road--total 10,000--required
this year 9,000
For improving Rouge Hill and Bridge, also another bridge and hill east
of the former--total £6,500-- required this year 5,000
For Belleville Bridge 1,500
For the completion of the Dover Road over the mountain, to the limits
of the town of Hamilton, and erection of toll-gates 5,500
For the improvement of the road from L'Original to Bytown, by
Hattfield, Gifford, Buckworth, and Green's Creeks, as surveyed and
estimated, together with the building of a bridge across the narrow

channel, at the mouth of the Rideau, on the line of the road from
Gattineau Ferry to Bytown--total cost, £5,930--required this year
£3,000
Owen's Sound Road, comprehending the line from Dundas by Guelph,
to Owen's Sound direct (this sum being for the chopping, clearing,
drawing, and forming of the portion not yet opened, and towards the
lowering of hills, or otherwise improving such bad parts of the line
between Nicolet and Dundas as most require it) 4,000
For opening the road throughout from Lake Ontario, at Windsor
Harbour, to Georgius Bay, on Lake Huron, this sum being for the
opening of the road from the head of Scugog Road to the Narrow's
bridge 2,000
For improving Queenston and Grimsby Road, for laying on the metal
already delivered, and completing such parts left unfinished as are most
advanced, and establishing gates 8,000
(To finish the remainder of this communication within the Niagara
district will cost £16,000, and that within the Gore district £10,000.)
For improving the Trent navigation, towards the completion of the
works now in progress £12,000--for this year 6,000
To cover expense of surveys, examination, preparation of estimates of
the cost of improving the Main Province Road across the ravines of the
Twelve and Sixteen Mile Creeks between Toronto and Hamilton;
opening a road from the main road to Port Credit; opening and
completing a road from the Ottawa at Bytown, to the St. Lawrence in
the most direct line; of opening a road between Kingstown and the
Lake des Allumettes on the Ottawa, with a branch towards the head of
the Bay of Quinte; of opening a road from the Rideau, thence by Perth,
Bellamy's Mills, Wabe Lake, to fall in with the road proposed from
Bytown to Sydenham; of completing the Desjardin's Canal; of
constructing the Murray Canal; of overcoming the impediments to the
navigation of the river Trent, between Heely's Falls and the Bay of
Quinte, and also for a survey of the road from Barrie to Lake Huron,

through the townships of Sunindale and Nottawasaga 2,000
For improving the Amherstburgh and Sandwich road 1,000
For the Cornwall and L'Original road 900 -------- £47,000
WORKS OF A GENERAL CHARACTER, AS CONNECTED WITH
THE COMMERCE OR REVENUE OF THE COUNTRY.
To forming a dam across the branch of the Mississisqui, and forming a
portage road at the Chats 1,250
For works upon the Ottawa and roads connected therewith, as detailed
in the Report of the Board of Works of 3rd February, 1845, laid before
the legislature--total £21,600--required this year 8,500
For building a landing-wharf, with stairs and approaches at the
Quarantine Station, Grosse Isle 2,750
For the extension of piers, and opening inner basin at Port Stanley
harbour--total £6,000--required this year 1,200
For dredging at Cobourg harbour 500
For expenses of piers and dredging at Windsor harbour 2,000
For repairs and erection of Lighthouses--total £7,900--this year 5,000
For the formation of a deep water-basin, at the entrance of the Lachine
Canal, in the harbour of Montreal, to admit vessels from sea 15,000
For the erection of a Custom House at Toronto 2,500 ------- £39,700
-------- Total currency £125,200 --------
W. B. Robinson, Inspector General.
Thus, from the commencement of the operations of the Board of Works
in the Canadas, or in about six years, there will have been no less an
amount than a million and a half expended in opening the resources of

that "noble province," as Lord Metcalfe styled it,