“the only one whose work as a marine surveyor was to put him in the class of his commander.” The long homeward voyage was made by Cape Horn, with

chances there of Surveyor General David William Smith*, François was apparently persuaded to run in neighbouring Kent County instead. Duly

same year the deputy surveyor general of the new province of Upper Canada, David William Smith, noted that

lumber camps in the winter, but the combined proceeds were insufficient to support his family. In 1882 land surveyor Edward Jack trained him in surveying and the techniques of lumber cruising, and for

). John Askin papers (Quaife). Mich. Pioneer Coll. Select British docs. of War of 1812 (Wood). “Surveyors’ letters, notes, instructions, etc., from 1788 to 1791,” AO

Bouchette*, surveyor general of Lower Canada, took Cannon to arbitration; and plasterers and fellow Irishmen James Sharp (who had apprenticed with Cannon) and Michael Quigley successfully sued him for

commissions as deputy surveyor of woods in 1803 and, at the death of William Woodfall in 1806, chief justice. Soon after the last appointment, however, Dodd

, and Michael Lane, who was to follow James Cook* as surveyor of Newfoundland, was the schoolmaster in the ship

buildings. He was probably related to the Joseph Dufour of Montreal who signed up in 1797 as a voyageur for Todd, McGill and Company. The Joseph Dufour who was surveyor of roads at La Malbaie in 1807–8

in transit by salt water. The following year he was among eight surveyors elected to oversee the newly established procedure. In 1786 Ellice presided over a gala dinner held by London merchants trading

Tarascon, dept of Bouches-du-Rhône, France, son of Jacques-Michel Faillon, surveyor, and Claire Raoûx; d. 25 Oct. 1870 in Paris. Étienne-Michel

. Hendry moved west in 1872, arriving in British Columbia to find the lumber industry in a slump. For two years he worked as a log and timber surveyor and millwright for sawmills on Puget Sound. In 1874 he

expedition, including the serious illness of surveyor Simon James Dawson, Hind was able to make geological

HOOD, ROBERT, naval officer, explorer, painter, and surveyor; b. c. 1797 probably in Portarlington

considerable resources of waterpower and a large potential hinterland. The area was already known to travellers and surveyors, among them Hyatt’s friends Jesse

, intending to become “a permanent Settler.” Surveyor General Charles Burton Wyatt described him as “a gentleman

Liberal government of Oliver Mowat* often appointed surveyors and land agents whom Jamot recommended and who he thought would encourage settlement

and Jarvis families came to a head when Samuel quarrelled with 18-year-old John Ridout, a son of Surveyor General Thomas Ridout*. On 12

Edward, which, surveyor Roswell Mount* observed in March, was being operated by Jones’s “People.” The wharfs and storehouses which he erected about

of much Capacity and vast Influence” and found him “very useful on such Occasions.” When a group of Shawnees appeared at Fort Pitt in the spring of 1773 with a complaint about Virginia surveyors, it

. The first loyalists had reached Port Roseway in May 1783, including a party of blacks who set to work clearing the town-site and preparing roads. At a discreet six miles from Shelburne, surveyor

, rapacity, and deceit; on his reputed paternity of his associate in villainy, deputy surveyor Roswell Mount; and even

resources in keeping with the adage of his time: “To govern is to foresee.” At the start of the 1920s he had a hand in setting up a seaplane station in Roberval that was used by surveyor-pilots whose

marriage to surveyor Edgar Dewdney* in March 1864, Glennie deserted the family. In 1865 Susan

acres of crown land. In most of these transactions he worked closely with his brother-in-law “Honest” John McAdam, who was surveyor general of New Brunswick when many of the acquisitions were made. He and

, served as a surveyor and school teacher, and John undoubtedly acquired both his general education and his penchant for statistics from his father in the Covehead school

. In June 1813 he acquired from Young some 7,200 acres in the same township for £1,672. His interest in Sherrington stemmed from its potential for immediate production of grain. Surveyor General

Parr for the land grants to which all loyalists were entitled. In response, the government surveyor, Charles Morris

brother William was by then surveyor at Liverpool for Lloyd’s of London and there may have been other relatives in the city. Pope appears in city directories as shipbuilder and merchant. In Liverpool, he

interpreter. This last was an unhappy union, and after Hertel disappeared Elizabeth incurred her father’s ire by “living in adultery”; some time before February 1806 she married Theodore Davis, a surveyor

extremely doubtful.” Rogers blamed Surveyor General Thomas Ridout for repeated delays and continual frustration in his

. Samuel Ryerse was thus part of a regional élite based on office-holding and dominated by the local assemblyman, Surveyor General David William

. Smyth, who was old-fashioned and conservative in his politics, did his utmost to place Shore in a highly paid permanent position. He failed in efforts to make him surveyor general and receiver general

Robinson*’s bill to extend slavery within the province. On 5 June 1800 he was elected speaker, replacing Surveyor General David William

surveyor Philip Turnor* reported to London that without Tomison the inland activity of the company “would intirely loose its present spirit.” But

* gaining experience towards his licence as a land surveyor. It is likely that Kivas Tully came well recommended. In his first year, practising on his own

mother brought up seven children in impecunious circumstances. Wolseley attended a day-school in Dublin and then worked in a surveyor’s office. On 12 March 1852 he was commissioned ensign in the

Pope who were accustomed to helping themselves. About the time that the surveyors were doing their work for Peters in eastern Kings a blacksmith named Martin Heaney, illegally occupying a

Macaulay, and Sullivan. In June 1838 Sullivan assumed the additional office of surveyor general. During Robinson’s long absence in England from 1838 to 1840, Arthur tended to ignore his law

, as a result of Russell’s influence, he became receiver and payer of fees in the Surveyor General’s Office. Willcocks petitioned successfully for a town lot in York on 15 July; on 12 August

. Andrew Blair’s father, a native of Halifax and about 57 years of age when Andrew was born, was referred to in the 1851 census as a carpenter, and elsewhere variously as surveyor, road commissioner

*, a qualified surveyor in the service of the HBC, whom he happened to meet at Cumberland House (Sask.) in June 1790. Turnor noted at the time: “Mr McKensie says he has been at the Sea, but

Roy-Audy, and Surveyor General Joseph Bouchette; important British merchants in the colony

. Addison did write on at least two occasions to the former surveyor general, Charles Burton Wyatt*, who left Upper Canada in 1807 to seek

province of Quebec under the authority of Charles Stewart, surveyor general of a customs district that included New York and Pennsylvania. For this imperial function Ainslie received a salary of £300, and on

Kendall*, the surveyor, in the 24-foot boats Dolphin and Union, explored the coast eastward to the mouth of the Coppermine River; Franklin and Back, in the 26-foot boats Lion

burdened with debt. Responding to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s call for engineers, in 1882 he made a decision that would change his life: to work as a surveyor and engineer on the railroad’s

an experienced ex-governor of New Hampshire who had lived in Nova Scotia as surveyor general of the king’s woods. He did not need to depend on the opinion of Bulkeley, whom he described as “from his

development. The surveyor general paid little attention to Foucault, Gaspé, and Saint-Étienne, which had more wood than people, but he underlined the advantages of the seigneury of Lauzon. It was near Quebec

and his son-in-law George Wright*, son of Thomas Wright*, the surveyor