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The 1881 Stewart Survey was free because the land belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company

The Deed of Surrender of 1870-1 included a clause that surveys on Company land, like the “block of land” in Sault Ste. Marie and later Steelton, would be free of charge

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Photo: Ontario, Department of Crown Lands, “Statement of Crown Land Surveys in Progress and Amounts Advanced Thereon up to Date,” Appendix No. 16, Report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Year 1881, 45 Victoria, Sessional Papers (No. 4), A. 1882, p. 25.

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