1842–1844 (London, 1883); In search of the magnetic north: a soldier surveyor’s letters from the north-west, 1843–1844, ed. G. F. G. Stanley (Toronto, 1955); “The president’s

Cornwallis*; he was listed as captain in an independent company and was accompanied by ten male and six female servants as befitted the “Surveyor-General of Nova Scotia.” To that appointment Little soon

eldest son of John Maclure, a Scottish surveyor who had come to British Columbia with the Royal Engineers [see Richard Clement Moody

MALLANDAINE, EDWARD, architect, artist, surveyor, and publisher; b. 6 Aug. 1827 in Singapore, only

 May 1879 and surveyor of customs on 1 July 1893, a position he held until his retirement in 1915. His friends believed that but for political considerations he would have been made

homesteading grant and his two town lots he received in 1796 lot 21 on Yonge Street which he sold to Surveyor General David William Smith* two

Charles, James Rainstorpe Morris has been largely unknown. The son of the first surveyor general of Nova Scotia, he served in the Royal Navy for 14 years. Exactly when he came to the

ill health prevented his attendance until 9 June 1798. He had been replaced as speaker by Surveyor General David William Smith*, who

Miner, packer, Salesman, Surveyor, explorer, Fur Trader and Accountant in Your Service.” Like several of his colleagues, McKay made a natural transition from fur trader to Indian agent, and like most of

.164–164d; D.5/8: ff.311, 366; D.5/18: ff.52–53d; mfm. copy no.384. HBRS, XXX (Williams). J. H. Lefroy, In search of the magnetic north: a soldier-surveyor’s letters from the north-west, 1843

Canada in 1840. The family moved to Manitoba in 1873 when George received a position as a land surveyor. Educated at Winnipeg’s Collège de Saint-Boniface and Manitoba College, McPhillips decided to pursue

province to clerk for surveyor Reuben Sherwood. Soon after the outbreak of war in June 1812 McSwiney enlisted for service, becoming a sergeant in his employer’s company of 1st Leeds Militia. On 10

. for Henry John), engineer, painter, etcher, and teacher; b. 27 June 1865 in Quebec City, 13th and youngest child of John Neilson, a dominion land surveyor, and Laura C. Moorhead; m

author; b. 14 Sept. 1852 in Châteaubriant, France, son of Joseph Obalski, a road surveyor of Polish origin, and Sophie Lhénoret, from Nantes; m. 5 July 1882 at Quebec Joséphine Gosselin

duties of chief road officer and of surveyor general for Louisiana, and in 1749 he was back in Trois-Rivières, where on 14 June he married Marie-Joseph, the daughter of Jean-Baptiste

daughter, Marie-Anne, married François Legendre of Gentilly (Bécancour), a surveyor who also represented Buckingham in the assembly and whose late father had been a major landowner – altogether an ideal

Dam.” James Grant Chewett*, of the Surveyor General’s Office, thought Purdy “should receive all possible encouragement.” When

himself in government circles, for in 1799 he obtained the position of deputy surveyor general of land for Lower Canada. From then on Pyke was, as it

Ridout* had been surveyor general of Upper Canada from 1810 to 1829, and her father was the first cashier (manager) of the Bank of Upper Canada from 1822 until his retirement in 1861. Little is known

RIDOUT, THOMAS GIBBS, banker; b. 10 Oct. 1792 near Sorel, Lower Canada, third son of Surveyor General Thomas

(Cruikshank), 1: 396; 5: 70, 79, 111, 226. [E. P. Gwillim (Simcoe)], Mrs. Simcoe’s diary, ed. M. Q. Innis (Toronto and New York, 1965), 101, 106. “Surveyors’ letters

. Trained as a surveyor and engineer in England, Collingwood Schreiber immigrated to Toronto with his family in 1852 and joined the engineering staff of the Hamilton and Toronto Railway. In 1856 he entered

and father of David William*, soon to become surveyor general of Upper Canada, recommended Selby to Lieutenant Governor

Selwyn as geological surveyor to the newly founded Australian colony of Victoria, and later made him director of its geological survey. Beginning the work in 1853, Selwyn was well qualified to analyse the

regulation of cutting on public lands. In 1826 a system had been introduced whereby the post of deputy surveyor general of woods was revived in each province to control the licensing of lumbermen, in part by

of John Allan Snow*, a surveyor, and Emma Catherine Bradley; m. 25 Nov. 1885 Katherine Elizabeth Beaty (1860–1940) in Toronto, and they had

surveyor. For a payment of £95, Sparks received 200 acres of land along with some food and chattels. The land was lot C, concession C, Nepean Township. Lot

early 1860s, but he is not mentioned in the lists of army officers. He may have been engaged on this project and others as a land surveyor. He first manifested an interest in immigration to Canada while

penetration by the United States Army into Sioux territory from 1865 to 1868. In the latter year, a treaty granted the Black Hills of Dakota to the Sioux. Within a few years, however, railway surveyors and

inhabitants. In 1771, probably to reinforce his attachment to their side, the British authorities named him surveyor general of woods and waters and offered to make him a baronet. He refused the baronetcy

the material organization of his seigneury to an attorney-at-law, Étienne Parent, whom Intendant Hocquart had commissioned the previous year to act as surveyor in Nouvelle-Beauce. From then on the life

and his fellow lumbermen had enjoyed during Sir John Wentworth*’s lax administration as surveyor of the king’s woods. In 1820

local bank in 1837 may have obliged him to apply for the office of town surveyor – he was acting surveyor in 1838–39 – and undoubtedly precipitated his bankruptcy in 1840, along with those of

absolute starvation.” At his death in 1836, however, former surveyor general Charles Burton Wyatt

merchant Robert Hamilton, and Surveyor General David William

surveyor and architect, in May 1874, with drawings he later considered quite inadequate, he had never seen a T-square. It was only after working persistently for three or four weeks

(Madison, 1908; repr. Port Washington, N.Y., and London, 1970), 44n. [Thomas Ridout], “Narrative of the captivity among the Shawanese Indians, in 1788, of Thomas Ridout, afterwards Surveyor-general of Upper

November 1729, Wowurna was probably among the Penobscot and Norridgewock chiefs who met the surveyor David Dunbar at Pemaquid, which he was rebuilding. Dunbar reassured them about their lands, but

Hill papers. His career as shipbuilder and shipowner can be followed in great detail through PAC, RG 42, I, 150–69, 391–93, and National Maritime Museum (London), Reports of Lloyds surveyors of the

surveyor general and for its railways. In June the following year he led the Conservative party to its greatest electoral victory in the history of New Brunswick

on a line of telegraphs on the St Lawrence below Quebec. In 1821 he contracted with the surveyor of highways, streets, lanes, and bridges of the city to make sewers along Rue Saint-Jean and

surveyors staking out the railway right of way near Blackfoot Crossing. Through Crowfoot [Isapo-muxika*] Lacombe convoked a meeting of Blackfoot

cleared 15 acres by 1798, but he was a leader with both ambition and ability. During the reorganization of the region’s militia that year Surveyor General David William

settled in the Saguenay region and then on the north shore of the St Lawrence at the outset of the 19th century. Engineer, surveyor, and officer in the British army, he entered the service of the North

Quebec; in the autumn they proposed first to Surveyor General Joseph Bouchette* and then to Governor Sir James Henry

expedition started on its journey across the plains, heading south up Red River to the American boundary, where they made careful observations in conjunction with a chance-met American land surveyor, Charles

pay the expenses of the surveyor. He attended railway conventions, including the important one in Portland, Maine, in 1850 [see John Alfred

Richelieu, in 1837. His father, Henri-Maurice, a surveyor and architect, was the son and grandson of prominent lumber merchants; he was also a nephew of architect John

Canada he was 59, much older than most of his colleagues. His closest friends were probably the ablest members of Simcoe’s government – Osgoode, White, and Surveyor General David William

Hagerman, legislative councillor Adam Fergusson*, London District treasurer John Harris, Joseph Bitterman Spragge of the Surveyor