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SW Saskatchewan | The 49th is the base line and corrections for narrowing due to curvature of the earth starts at a meridian line and at the north edge of township two (twelve miles north of the 49th) then every 24 miles (4 townships) from then to the north pole.
One item of interest thatis unique to western Canada is that the Road Allowances are their own separate piece of real estate and are not cut out of the surrounding sections. Under the original Manitoba survey, each section was bordered by a 6 chain road allowance on all four sides, giving each quarter road access on two sides.
As the survey was moved west, it was first changed to a four chain road allowance around each section, then the east -west road allowances were every two miles north south rather than one mile so the north south alignment of quarters were off at the borders where different survey systems met.
The generous road allowances are why anywhere in western Canada you can pull over to the side of the road and your neighbour can pull alongside and you can settle the Worlds problems without blocking of the road-unlike the pencil mark roads in Eastern Canada and the US.
And roads are regular and even, in Ontario the spacing seems to have been determined from a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera- not only that but roads don't run straight, they parallel a lake shore or a river.
Any numerating system would not work out to even numbers in Ontario or East- but on the prairies it is one mile by two miles, and Damnation on the CPR. | |
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Chain Research
