ones who were members of both the permanent committee and the improvised judicial and militia organizations. Among the other leaders were notary Berthelot, surveyor Émery Féré, and farmer Jean-Baptiste

Erie Canal. Soon after his arrival Cumberland worked as a surveyor laying out the intersection of Bloor and Yonge streets, as an evaluator for the British America Fire and Life Assurance Company, and as

with a statistical account of Upper Canada (Dundas, [Ont.], 1836), 273–74. “Surveyors’ letters, etc..” AO Report, 1905: 489–94. Valley of Six Nations (Johnston), 46, 49, 51, 54, 58

, however, and he ran successfully for a seat in the House of Commons representing Yale in the general election of 1872. Before leaving for Ottawa he was invited to become surveyor general of British Columbia

Baillie, who had been appointed commissioner of crown lands and surveyor general in 1824. Baillie held a Treasury commission, which made him largely independent of the governor in the financial

surrogate of New York City from 1771 and provincial surveyor general from 1774. On 6 July 1774 the University of Oxford awarded him a doctorate of civil laws. At the outbreak of the American

to destroy him. In 1835 Surveyor General Joseph Bouchette, whom Felton had openly accused of extreme

Boulton*) against the eventual victor, Samuel Street Wilmot (the favourite candidate of the front-township “Yankees” and an associate of Surveyor General Thomas

, while Michael Adams of Northumberland became surveyor general with responsibility for administering crown lands. Both of these portfolios dispensed significant patronage and so were looked upon as

. After being trained, Genest worked as a surveyor on the construction of the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway, a job that led him to discover the Ottawa region. In the early 1880s he joined the federal

. Along with the other political moderates on the Council, Surveyor General Charles Morris*, James Stewart, and Simon Bradstreet

return for fees determined by auction [see Charles Shirreff]. Surveyors general of woods were appointed

Engineers or Surveyors at 2 or 300 a year will use up all the business ex officis, which heretofore has been done by jobs and which has been some of the most profitable employment.” Under the act only the

seasoned officials as deputy minister Edmund Allen Meredith* and surveyor general John Stoughton

descent, was appointed surveyor general. Both offices were desirable because of the broad discretionary powers they conferred. Hanington became minister without portfolio

construction of the canal was an American imperial project run in military style, so Macdonald was right at home. Army surveyors, army engineers, army service corps, and army medical personnel built the canal

* seized control of Red River in December 1869, Machray blamed the Canadian government for not having prepared the colony properly or consulted with local leaders. He also condemned the surveyors under John

later at Niagara. Cockrel, a leading educator in Upper Canada and a land surveyor, taught Merritt mathematics and surveying. He also received some classical education from the Reverend John Burns, a

, Arthur Dobbs, esquire, 1689–1765; surveyor-general of Ireland, prospector and governor of North Carolina (London, 1958), and Williams, British search for the northwest passage

cartographer would praise its “astonishing fidelity” and judge Morice to be a better surveyor than his professionals. In Kamloops he had compiled the Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des Métis

Schultz*, had already formed the nucleus of a Canadian party. Not surprisingly, the Métis population and others in the territories resisted in 1869 when a team of Canadian surveyors, led by McDougall’s

to do with the terms or any thing Else, & was only Employed as Surveyors under him.” McNutt had succeeded in having his name inserted in the list of the grantees for each of the four townships

were met. For 18 years he served as reserve commissioner and, as he had so often done while a judge, spent much time visiting remote areas of the province, accompanied by a surveyor – usually

Arthur Christie Pickthall, a surveyor, and Elizabeth Helen Mary Mallard; d. unmarried 19 April 1922 in Vancouver. During her childhood in

, where he was second clerk of customs until 1850, and then surveyor of shipping. The colonial government appointed him controller of customs and navigation and registrar of shipping at Saint John in 1855

hands. DesBarres felt insulted by the bill because of his past career as a surveyor, and he managed to have the measure rejected by the assembly. As

escheats; in 1810 he was appointed deputy to Wentworth, no longer lieutenant governor but still surveyor general of the king’s woods, succeeding Wentworth on his death in 1820. Wallace also served briefly

international boundary commission in 1796 and 1798, and deputy surveyor of the king’s woods in 1806. Thus he did have considerable public influence. In his first years in New Brunswick he made imaginative

Crookshank, Provincial Secretary Duncan Cameron, Surveyor General Thomas Ridout*, Solicitor General Henry John

home in the summer of 1862, Félicité apparently began seeing Pierre-Alexis Tremblay*, a surveyor and native of La Malbaie, who was then

Sullivan (commissioner of crown lands and surveyor general), John Henry Dunn (receiver general), and John

geological surveyor, angrily called Carter “not simply indifferent but obstructive” on the matter. Nevertheless, in 1875 a loan was raised to finance a survey, which was carried out that year with the advice

Street* and William Dickson*, in Lincoln and of the influential Surveyor General David William

. In Prince Albert a river-lot survey was done in 1878 and the surveyors started on the South Branch as well, completing about one-fifth of the work before the season ended. For reasons that have defied

officer, military engineer, surveyor, colonizer, and colonial administrator; b. November 1721, either in Basel, Switzerland, or in Paris, eldest of three children of Joseph-Leonard Vallet Des

William Dunlop and surveyor Mahlon

Gibson’s chief timber cruiser, surveyor, and adviser. Over the following decade Gibson acquired 30,000 acres of crown land on the upper Nashwaak and purchased other properties including 93,000 acres of

. David B. Quinn BM, Add. MS 38823, ff.1–8 (see E. G. R. Taylor, “Instructions to a colonial surveyor in

Warren and Thomas Welch, was able to secure the election of Surveyor General David William

, a Charlottetown surveyor and land agent. By 1867 he had saved enough. Once in Liverpool, Harris obtained a student pass for the public library and

de Saint-Romain. It was the latter who claimed a certain piece of land from M. de La Pérade, who simply asked the intendant to appoint a surveyor, promising to respect the dividing line to be

Burlington Heights, the second son of Augustus Jones*, a retired surveyor, and Tuhbenahneequay (Sarah Henry), the 22-year-old daughter of Wahbanosay

. Lawrence’s aggressive policy for finding settlers had much to do with his success. He was supported by Charles Morris, the surveyor and council member, who was involved deeply in the settlement plans. Lawrence

Pearce, a surveyor and later a prominent Calgarian. After Lougheed’s death in 1925, Pearce would recall his acquaintance with him in 1869–70: “He was then a very young man, in fact he was

Fidler, the HBC surveyor temporarily in command of the colony, surrendered it and retired with the settlers to Jack River House. Macdonell was taken to Montreal by the Nor’Westers to stand trial

Laidlaw*, chief engineer and general manager James Ross*, and an ambitious young surveyor-office boy, Herbert Samuel

could also be charming and obliging. Joseph Bouchette*, Lower Canada’s surveyor general, wrote that he had received in 1828 the “characteristic

a surveyor general, Thomas Wright*, after complaining that the township boundaries were “merely imaginary, except upon the Map.” Unfortunately

acquitted. Evidence suggests the killer was one Péché (Peshe), who afterwards traded from Slave River among the Chipewyans. HBC surveyor Peter Fidler

condemned the actions of their former colleagues, vowing that if Wilmot was re-elected after being appointed surveyor general, they would resign their own seats in protest. Wilmot was convincingly returned in