The question of who, controls the Crown lands in Northern Ontario, is up for conjecture..

The only way to resolve this bureaucratic nightmare, is a court room...

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Right to take wood, gravel, etc., for roads

(2) In all sales, free grant locations, leases, licences of occupation, mining claims and other dispositions of public lands or mining lands or mining rights, where the letters patent have been issued containing a reservation of any of the area for roads, wood, gravel and other materials required for the construction or improvement of any colonization or other road or of any road in lieu of or partly deviating from an allowance for road, may be taken from the land without making compensation therefor or for the injury thereby done to the land from which they are taken, and where the letters patent have been issued without a reservation being made of any of the area for roads, wood, gravel and other materials required for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned may be taken from the land, but compensation shall be paid as provided by the Expropriations Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. P.43, s. 65 (2).

Release of reservation of access to shore

(2) Upon the application of the owner of land for which letters patent have been issued under this or any other Act, the Minister may make an order releasing the land or a part of the land from any reservation in the letters patent reserving a right of way or a right of access to the shores of rivers, streams or lakes for vessels, boats and persons, if the Minister is of the opinion that the reservation does not serve a useful purpose and is not required in the public interest and if the applicant pays the fee specified by the Minister. 2002, c. 18, Sched. L, s. 7 (2).

http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90p43_e.htm