the Spot” to the Duke of Bedford, secretary of state for the Southern Department, recommending that Morris be given further employment as a surveyor in Nova Scotia
appointed to the Legislative Council in December 1851. In 1852 he was apparently offered the position of surveyor general by the lieutenant governor, Sir Edmund
STEWART, WILLIAM JAMES, engineer, hydrographic surveyor, and civil servant; b. 23 Jan. 1863 in Ottawa, son of John Stewart
.
Aquila Walsh’s grandfather, Thomas Leigh (Legh) Walsh, uel, came in 1793 to Upper Canada where he was a provincial land surveyor, and from 1796 to 1810 the registrar of deeds
BOSTWICK, JOHN, surveyor, office holder, militia officer, politician, jp, and
CUNDALL, HENRY JONES, land surveyor, estate agent, and philanthropist; b. 13 Jan. 1833 in New London, P.E.I., eldest child
TURNOR, PHILIP, HBC inland surveyor; b. c. 1751; d. 1799 or 1800
BAYFIELD, HENRY WOLSEY, naval officer and hydrographic surveyor; b. 21 Jan. 1795 in Kingston upon Hull, England, son of John
PEARCE, WILLIAM, surveyor, civil engineer, public servant, and statistician; b. 1 Feb. 1848 in Dunwich Township, Upper
commissioner of crown lands and surveyor general of New Brunswick. The appointment of a young, relatively inexperienced man to a post that was second in importance only to that of the lieutenant governor was
GALE, SAMUEL, surveyor, land claims agent, office holder, and notary; b. 14 Oct. 1747 in Kimpton, Hampshire
-NARCISSE, surveyor, civil engineer, office holder, professor, and promoter of colonization; b. 13 Jan. 1849 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada, son of Jean-Baptiste Gastonguay
which the reformer Robert Baldwin was a member, and a new surveyor general, John Simcoe Macaulay, to succeed
BÉDARD, JEAN-BAPTISTE, carpenter and surveyor; b. 18 May 1761 in Charlesbourg (Que.), son of Thomas
COFFIN, NATHANIEL, surveyor, politician, jp, office holder, and militia officer; b
JANSON (Jeanson), dit Lapalme, DOMINIQUE, architect, land surveyor; b. 2 April 1701 at Quebec, son
LEVASSEUR, PIERRE-NOËL (baptized Noël), wood-carver, surveyor; b. 28 Nov. 1690 at Quebec, son of Pierre
.
Re-elected in 1861, McMillan became surveyor general in Tilley’s administration on 26 July. McMillan’s business partner, Jeremiah Travis, objected to his involvement in politics because it took
Métis resistance of 1869-70 to the transfer of Rupert’s Land to the Canadian government was the stopping of the surveyors on 11 Oct. 1869. Oral history suggests that this event
Architects, Civil Engineers and Provincial Land Surveyors of the Province of Canada in 1860–61 and of its fleeting successor in 1862, the Association of Surveyors, Civil Engineers and Architects. Fourteen
RICHARDS, Sir GEORGE HENRY, naval officer, surveyor, explorer, and
ROY, THOMAS, surveyor, engineer, author, and geologist; d. 28 July 1842 in Toronto
RUBIDGE, FREDERICK PRESTON, surveyor, office holder, and architect; b. 10 March 1806 in London, England, son of Robert
Jean Bourdon, a seigneur and engineer-surveyor, and Jacquelin Potel; d. 1690 at La Rochelle.
Upon finishing his studies at the
BURWELL, MAHLON, surveyor, militia officer, businessman, office holder, politician, and jp
DYAS, THOMAS WINNING, surveyor, engineer, publisher, farmers’ organizer, and businessman; b. 2 Sept. 1845 at Clonturken
of odd jobs such as constable and surveyor. In 1710 he served as a lieutenant-colonel in the expedition against Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) under Francis
), architect, surveyor, civil engineer, and artist; b. 27 July 1803 in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England; m. 7 May 1827 to Jemima Frances Meikle in London, England; d. 3 Feb
KERR, JAMES HOOPER, staff commander in the Royal Navy and hydrographic surveyor; b. in 1828 in Jersey, Channel Islands; m. in March
-surveyor and builder; born at Trois-Rivières in 1654, son of Pierre Lefebvre and of Jeanne Aunois; married Catherine Trottier of Champlain on 3 Nov. 1683, and had eight children; buried at Trois
RANKIN, ARTHUR, surveyor, militia officer, showman, mining entrepreneur, and politician; b. 1816 in Montreal, son of
SNOW, JOHN ALLAN, surveyor; b. 31 March 1824 in Hull Township, Lower Canada, son of John Snow, a wheelwright; m. in 1851
and of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston. He held the rank of ensign when he was surveyor of arms for Saugus in 1637. By 1640 he was a deputy in the General Court of
establishing themselves securely. François became vicar general of the bishop of Quebec; Joseph-Marie, a surveyor and later a merchant, was the father of lawyer
HIBBARD, JEDEDIAH (baptized Jedadiah Hebbard), surveyor and Baptist elder; b. 14 Oct. 1740 in Canterbury
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Jones, who was a freemason while he lived in Charlottetown, seems to have been a respected and practical man. He was appointed surveyor of timber for Prince Edward Island in 1813 and travelled frequently
Davidson*. Julien requested confirmation of his lands on 8 July 1785 and Deputy Surveyor Benjamin Marston* reported on their extent
LAVIOLETTE, GODEFROY (baptized Eustache-Pierre-Godefroy), surveyor
Saint John, and eight years later he was promoted surveyor at St Andrews, an important border customs station. The British customs establishment in New Brunswick was discontinued in 1848, and Lewin
surveyor general. He did not contest Middlesex in 1844 but continued as surveyor general until the abolition of that office in March 1845. His political career was perhaps best summed up by Clarence T
PATTERSON, ROBERT, surveyor, merchant, office holder, and militia officer; b. 1732 in Renfrew, Scotland; d. 30
RICHARDS, MICHAEL, captain and engineer in Newfoundland between 1697 and 1703; later brigadier-general and surveyor
Upper Canada, he appointed Robinson surveyor general of woods and forests there. The Robinsons moved to Kingston that year.
Robinson’s work as surveyor
the historical record. Far more biographical material survives about her husband, surveyor Hugh Paine Savigny (1821–81), though she was the more notable person. From 1866 to 1880 he is listed as living
SHORTLAND, PETER FREDERICK, Royal Navy officer and marine surveyor; b. in 1815, probably in England, the son of Thomas George Shortland
SIMPSON, ÆMILIUS, hydrographer, surveyor, fur trader, and ship’s captain; b. 27 July 1792 in Dingwall, Scotland, son of
member of a family dynasty who were active as architects in Quebec City from 1845 until 1960. His grandfather Christopher Staveley was an architect, engineer, and surveyor in Leicester, England. His father
TACHÉ, EUGÈNE-ÉTIENNE, surveyor, civil engineer, civil servant, and architect; b
, “said to be a considerable Chief,” gathered the band and stopped Augustus Jones*, a provincial surveyor, from proceeding with his survey of the