York” in 1796 and enjoyed a long career as surveyor and office holder, as did his son James Grant. After entering Upper Canada College in 1837, William Cameron attended King’s College (later the
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In 1879 a surveyor arrived at Morleyville to lay out the reserve. Of the Stoney chiefs, only Chiniquay was present, and John McDougall, who seems to have been eager to have all the Stoney close to the
for fuel.” The petition requested 250 additional acres but Dalhousie suggested that he be given 100. A note on the petition signed by Surveyor General Charles
performed a multiplicity of functions. By 1799 he had become a salaried judge of the surrogate court of Newfoundland, and at other times he acted as a magistrate, surveyor, and collector of customs. An active
surveyor, 1769–1822 (Toronto and Montreal, 1966). Morton, Hist. of Canadian west.
of the House of Assembly in 1852 and surveyor of roads in 1853. However, Delaney’s lack of enthusiasm for responsible government had cost him the support of the powerful Roman Catholic politician
. The agents were sent with Surveyor General Charles Morris* to view the lands and they selected a township of 100,000 acres at
DESHAYES, JEAN (he sometimes signed Deshaies), marine surveyor and royal hydrographer of New France; d. 18
1796. In the 1796 elections he withdrew his candidature before the poll was held.
In 1797 Digé was surveyor of roads for Sainte-Anne-de-la
, commissioner of highways, surveyor of highways, assessor, and overseer of the poor.
Like the majority of the Yorkshire settlers in Nova Scotia and New
Mary’s Bay. During the summer of 1768 this area, given the name of Clare, was surveyed by John Morrison, deputy provincial surveyor, and divided into lots. The lands surveyed later became known as the
EATON, DANIEL ISAAC VERNON, civil engineer, surveyor, and militia and army officer
of Lloyd’s surveyors of the port of Bideford in the National Maritime Museum (London), LYY (mfm. at PAC). His years as a shipbuilder and landholder on Prince Edward Island can be followed in PAPEI
simply to adjudicate claims and grant certificates for land, England himself did much to encourage immigration into the area. He had difficult relations with “that infamous fellow,” deputy surveyor Patrick
military élite, who coveted this prestigious post with its highly attractive remuneration. D’Estimauville had charge of 58 surveyors, and 275 overseers, of highways and bridges. Their responsibility
Antler and Davis creeks, acting as a mining and land surveyor in the Cariboo district, and cherishing the vain hope that “sooner or later something may turn up.” But he was never able to send for the wife
surveyor, or civil and military engineer (Glasgow, 1815); New method of finding the true length of a base line for trigonometrical surveys (Glasgow, 1822); Report to the president and
his widow, Mary, moved with her two children to the head of Lake Ontario, where her brother, Augustus Jones*, was already working as a surveyor
Surveyor General David William Smith*’s election to the speakership. Gray led the resistance to Macdonell’s contempt proceedings in 1803
, appointed by Governor Sir John Harvey* to the Executive Council as surveyor general, though he sat only for a short period between the years 1845
1835 he served as post office surveyor, or inspector, for that portion of British North America between Kingston and Fredericton. By 1838 he had also become clerk to Deputy Postmaster General
, traced its lineage back to Nicolas Guy of Paris, grand chamberlain to Louis XIV. Louis originally trained as a land surveyor. He spent the winter of 1791–92 at the College of New Jersey, in Princeton
archives at Warwick, England, from the Nova Scotia surveyor Charles Morris to one John Butler, agent for John Pownall, at that time proprietor of Lot 13 on St John’s (Prince Edward) Island. The previous
, and methodical young man. He completed his studies as a surveyor in 1859 and later returned to British North America as an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company
three surveyors for Close Brothers and Company of London, a British financial house that had undertaken to build the White Pass and Yukon Railway from Skagway to Whitehorse, Y.T. As a result of this
to view the proposed lands. The surveyor general, Charles Morris, accompanied them to aid in the choice
surveyor Philip Turnor* on a summer trip to Gloucester House (Washi Lake); and from March to August 1783 he took charge of Severn House (Fort
uncle, who was surveyor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
Hooper sailed back to Canada in 1880 and settled in Emerson, Man., working as a stone carver and
to Canada to visit a cousin, Cecil Armitstead, at Onoway, near Edmonton. After three years exploring and working in the Lac Ste Anne area of Alberta, he freighted for surveyors
. Howard, aware of suspicion against him, had written on 9 December to Charles Berczy*, surveyor of the post office, asking for an
appointed to no office. He was a prominent supporter of the Church of England in St John’s – one of a desperately small band in those irreligious times. He was also the first surveyor of roads
influence on the management of penal institutions. Jebb opposed transportation of convicts in favour of employing them on public works in England. Appointed surveyor general of prisons in 1837, he served in
century Andrew’s father established himself as a farmer and surveyor at Mud Creek (Wolfville). Andrew attended the nearby Horton Academy with the intention of pursuing a college education, but because of
JONES, JOHN (Thayendanegea, Tyantenagen), surveyor, schoolmaster, Methodist exhorter, translator
. Although his salary was only £208 per annum, he supplemented it by collecting “fees on Marriage, Medical, and Surveyor’s Licences, Certificates, Commissions, and all Instruments, &c. under the Seal of
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On 16 July 1725, in Montreal, Paul-Raymond Jourdain, dit Labrosse, had married Françoise Gaudé. One of his sons, Dominique, was interested in carving; another, Paul, was a surveyor
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Fabian O’Dea
PANL, Nfld., Dept. of Surveyor General, W. R. Noel
. She drew up the land roll of the seigneury herself and hired a surveyor to determine its boundaries officially. She also had to stand up to the Indians of nearby Caughnawaga (Kahnawake), who were trying
LOUNT, SAMUEL, blacksmith, surveyor’s assistant, businessman, politician, and rebel; b. 24 Sept. 1791 in
Smith*, and Smith’s subsequent appointment to the post of surveyor general permitted Mackintosh in turn to assist his business friends in their land acquisitions. Occasionally, Mackintosh also sought
his father, Eliakim (or “Liak”) Malcolm laid out the village of Scotland and served as surveyor and as a justice of the peace. He married Samantha Sexton in 1822 and became the father of eight children
-François concessions in the seigneury of Île-Jésus. In March Martineau granted three censives with a total frontage of 58 arpents to the surveyor Joseph Turgeon. In the course of the next
grants to all his children, and in 1798 Merritt successfully petitioned for two town lots in Newark. Late that year he received the appointment of deputy surveyor of the king’s woods, and on 5 Oct
in Nova Scotia with his parents as part of the 1783 loyalist migrations. His father, a major in the New Jersey Volunteers, became a deputy surveyor of Nova Scotia, served in the House of Assembly, and
Fisher*]; he had, however, been re-elected in the 1854 elections. In July 1856 he was appointed surveyor general with a seat on the Executive Council in the administration of John Hamilton
Morris* (1759–1831), surveyor general of Nova Scotia, and Charlotte Pernette; m. 12 Nov. 1863 at Lunenburg, N.S., Janet Maria (Jessie) Solomon; they had no children; d. 4 Sept
, daughter of Captain Guy Morris and Sibylla Amelia Maria Sophia Leggett, and descendant of Charles Morris*, chief surveyor of land and
subsequently complained to the commissioner of crown lands, Peter Robinson, who in January 1830 instructed the surveyor
Nawahjegezhegwabe learned to fish and hunt. In 1801 or 1802 the Reverend Joseph Sawyer, a Methodist preacher, baptized Nawahjegezhegwabe as “Joseph Sawyer.” At that time the Indian lived with surveyor Augustus