recognition of Rogers’s professional ability had led to his securing at least one public office. From about 1827 he was employed by the Midland District Court of Quarter Sessions as street surveyor for Kingston

of New Hampshire and surveyor general of the king’s woods in North America. The incident proved to be a fortunate turn of events since John was chosen to succeed to his uncle’s offices in 1766

PAPINEAU, JOSEPH, surveyor, notary, seigneurial agent, politician, and seigneur; b. 16 Oct. 1752 in Montreal, son of Joseph

. Meanwhile, in December 1813 Viger had replaced Louis Charland* as surveyor of highways, streets, lanes, and bridges of Montreal. At that time local

), architect, land surveyor, civil engineer, and author; b. 29 Sept. 1826 at Quebec, second son of Pierre-Théophile-Ferdinand Baillairgé and Charlotte Janvrin Horsley; brother of

KINGSFORD, WILLIAM, soldier, surveyor, journalist, publisher, civil engineer, businessman, office holder, and author

. The establishment of the new province of Upper Canada in 1791 did not provide any salary for a surveyor general, it being the view of the secretary of state, Henry Dundas, that the three assistant

TRUTCH, Sir JOSEPH WILLIAM, engineer, surveyor, politician, and office holder

HUNTINGTON, HERBERT, teacher, militia officer, businessman, surveyor, office holder, and politician; b. 27

ODELL, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, office holder, notary, lawyer, surveyor, and politician; b. 19 Oct. 1774 in Burlington, N.J., only

RYKERT, GEORGE, militia officer, teacher, surveyor, merchant, politician, and office holder; b. 8 Aug. 1797

TAVERNER, WILLIAM, planter, trader, and surveyor; b. possibly in Bay de Verde, Nfld., about 1680, perhaps the

Character and abilities that will do credit to any recommendation in his favour.” Warren himself corroborated this statement about his military career. In a letter of 1797 to the surveyor general of Upper

surveyor general in the conservative government of John Ambrose Sharman Street*. This would not be the only time he changed sides in politics

. He thus extended his own potential acreage. About this time the government also accepted his practice of claiming and privately allocating land without registering the transfers at the Surveyor

ANDERSON, SAMUEL, royal engineer, boundary surveyor, and map-maker; b. 15 Nov. 1839 in London, England, son

 March 1883 in Montreal, Que. After apparently being educated as a surveyor and army engineer, George Barnston joined the North West Company as an

BELCHER, Sir EDWARD, naval surveyor and explorer; b. in Halifax, N.S., on 27 Feb. 1799, son of Andrew Belcher and

families of both Upper and Lower Canada: Joseph had entered into the employ of an uncle by marriage, the surveyor Samuel Johannes

of Toronto, M. J. Butler served a three-year apprenticeship with the Belleville surveyors and architects John Dunlop Evans and Thomas Oliver Bolger. He qualified as a provincial land surveyor in

CAUCHON, NOULAN (baptized Joseph-Eusèbe-Noulan), surveyor, engineer, civil servant, and town planner; b. 4

Glapion*].By 1788 at the latest, he held the posts of deputy surveyor general of woods and deputy inspector of police at Quebec. The following year his name was listed as one of the owners of the first

DAWSON, SIMON JAMES (baptized James Simon), surveyor, engineer, office holder, and politician; b. 13 June

Charland*, surveyor of highways, streets, and lanes for the town of Montreal, had him build a covered market with 14 stalls and a “weigh-house” on the Place du Vieux-Marché (Place Royale). The following

, 334, 403, 405, 411, 413, 415, 417, 419, 427, 534, 629, 631–32, 646, 679. PRO, PRO 30/55 (copies at PAC); WO 28/4, 28/6, 28/10 (mfm. at PAC). “Book of official instructions to the land surveyors of Upper

KEEFER (Kieffer), GEORGE, farmer, cabinetmaker, surveyor, militia officer, justice of the peace, and businessman; b. 8 Nov

Keefer*, working on channel and harbour improvements, on waterworks in Montreal, Ottawa, and Hamilton, and on other projects. In 1863 he was appointed assistant city surveyor in Montreal and a few

Simcoe. Informed by the Lower Canadian deputy surveyor general, John Collins*, of salt springs in Upper Canada, in 1792 Simcoe

infant sister, Susan Elizabeth, and her mother, Martha. The trio had sailed from Belfast to be reunited with the children’s father, sent to the colony the previous year as a surveyor with the Royal

Holland, surveyor general of Quebec, asking for the land in the Madawaska region that Haldimand had suggested for him and 24 heads of families. He must have made a similar request to Thomas

of the British army’s medical department; following his reduction he became, by 1816, a clerk in the office of the surveyor general in York. In 1818 he married the sister of William Poyntz Patrick, a

represented his constituents’ interests in the assembly and, on land matters, at the surveyor general’s office. Prone to attacks of pleurisy and pressured by commercial problems, he sold his mills in September

. After the initial emergency, Parr had to locate the clamorous loyalists and disbanded soldiers on grants of land throughout the province. Aided by Surveyor General Charles

PERLEY (Pearley), ISRAEL, miller, office holder, and surveyor; b. 21 July 1738 in Boxford, Mass., first son of Thomas Perley

effective leader and peacemaker. In 1801 and 1802 he drew maps for Peter Fidler*, Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor at Chesterfield House on the South

, when he was retired because of poor health on a pension of $667, many times what he would have received on the teachers’ pension plan. He subsequently worked as a land surveyor and, after World War I

, daughter of Gilbert Barbier (known as Le Minime), master carpenter, surveyor, seigneurial attorney, and churchwarden of the parish of Ville-Marie, and of Catherine de La Vau; d. 19 May

years with the survey before beginning a career with the city of Montreal; he became city surveyor in 1900. A third son, Alfred Ernest, worked for the survey from 1883 to 1907 and achieved some prominence

orientated; and they do constitute the first maps in a new phase of English cartography of America. It is not certain that Beare was principal surveyor on

. Chandler*]. At the same time, the Council itself was divided about giving support to the controversial commissioner of crown lands and surveyor general, Thomas

), OH, 24: 27. “Surveyors’ letters, etc.,” AO Report, 1905: 467. “U.C. land book C,” AO Report, 1931: 75. Armstrong, Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology, 58. Reid

breakwater in West Arichat; in 1896 he became a commissioner for taking affidavits. He also served as the local fishery inspection officer, deputy returning officer, and surveyor

and a controller of customs and surveyor of shipping. On his mother’s side, during the last half of the 19th century, were six city councillors, one mayor of Charlottetown (Henry Beer), and two

, note A: 5, 13, 17. “Surveyors’ letters, notes, instructions, etc., from 1788 to 1791,” AO Report, 1905: 463. U.C., House of Assembly, Journal, 1829–30. Colonial Advocate, 26

joined the Snap as sailing-master’s mate and assistant surveyor. The ship did extensive hydrographic surveys around the coasts of Newfoundland, where Bullock was disturbed by the apparent neglect

when the colony was attacked in November by New England privateers. Charlottetown was looted and Callbeck, together with Surveyor General Thomas

. Instead, Casey was sent. Within a month he and a surveyor had produced a map of the proposed line. In late November the company was formally organized and Casey’s plan approved. By January 1835 the

general reader, secondly to enable “surveyors, farmers, and others” to recognize Canadian minerals, and thirdly, to serve as an introduction to the publications of the Geological Survey

at Quebec, as a judge of bailiffs court for Lauson, which had been without seigneurial justice since 1712. That year Étienne issued an ordinance appointing surveyor Ignace Lafleur, dit

Dennis*, surveyor general of Canada. Under the agreement, known as the “Half-Breed Adhesion to Treaty No.3,” the Métis, by virtue of their “Indian blood,” were to have two reserves set aside for them