Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Barwick Bog - 1954 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Dec-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Shenston
Latitude: 48° 40' 32.61" Longitude: -94° 2' 25.16"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 423416 Northing: 5391931 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52D09NE
Point Location Description: Bog as seen on Google Earth
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The Barwick Bog occupies parts of Sections 10 and 15 in Shenston Township and parts of sections 10 and 15 in the Long Sault reserve. Access is most convenient from the east. A road leads to the southeast corner of Section 15, Shenston township. From this point, a tractor road leads west to the eastern edge of the bog.
This peat bog was documented in a 1965 GSC publication. There are no assessment reports on file. This bog was worked during the summer of 1963 by Mr. Briggs of Barwick. Top moss was harvested and placed on drying frames made from chicken wire and tilted to face south. The moss was loaded from the frames onto a rack which was mounted on a stone boat and then pulled off the bog by a tractor. It was taken to a hay baler., which located 100 feet west of the southwest corner of Section 15 and adjacent to a storage shed.
Dec 19, 2019 (Therese Pettigrew) - The surface growth is comprised mainly of sphagnum moss, with some labrador tea and grass. Sampling did not exceed a depth of 5 feet. Bottom was not reached. The peat is humified below a depth of 1.5 feet. The baled moss was rooty and contained some labrador tea (Graham and Tibbetts, 1965).
Publication - Evaluation of Peat Moss in Some Bogs of the Rainy River District, p. 71-73
Publication Number: TB65 Scale: Date: 1965
Author: Graham, R.B., Tibbetts, T.E.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/299952
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