Return to an address from the Legislative Assembly, to His Excellency the Governor General, dated the 5th May, 1856 praying His Excellency to cause to be laid before the House, "A return of all reports of explorations and surveys, if any made by engineers or others, since the year 1835, employed to examine the Valley of the Trent, and the country westward, to Lakes Simcoe and Huron, with the view of constructing a canal from the Bay of Quinte to Lake Huron."