secretary. One of his sisters married the powerful surveyor general Thomas Baillie*. His wife was a daughter of Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge

postponed until a surveyor’s report had been submitted. Eight years later, on 28 March 1800, Panet made a new request for 1,200 acres, but it was turned down

Grammar School under Francis H. Wright, ma, of Trinity College, Dublin. In 1842, at which time his father, a reformer, was provincial surveyor general, Parke managed to

the payments in kind promised by the treaty, it took longer to survey the reserves. On 11–12 Sept. 1852 surveyor John Stoughton

also, with Daniel Robertson of Montreal, the subject of a petition to Carleton from Samuel MacKay, deputy surveyor for the navy. MacKay had claimed for the navy 200 trees in the Lake Champlain area, cut

RAIMBAULT, PIERRE, cabinet-maker, clerk of court, notary, surveyor, king’s counsellor, king’s attorney, acting

, then in 1826 to York (Toronto), where his uncle Thomas Ridout*, the surveyor general, secured for him a position in the government service. His

1798, the year his father died. As a loyalist and surveyor general of woods and forests, Christopher Robinson left his wife and six children an established place in York society. Unfortunately, he left

, a paper on the curing of fish, and an account of the island of Menorca (now also British). In September Dartmouth nominated Roope as surveyor of Newfoundland, but William

Laforce, royal surveyor and former king’s storekeeper at Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.); he thus allied himself with a prominent family in the colony. Shortly after, probably through his relatives

Thomas Baillie*, Saunders held the lucrative post of surveyor general. After the death of the provincial secretary, William Franklin

in 1812, the year Alexander was born. Educated in the public schools of Saint John, Alexander became a lumber surveyor and in 1834 entered the employ of Thomas McMackin of Indiantown (now part of Saint

strained his eyes, he did not proceed to ordination but worked for five years as a government surveyor. In 1882 he was engaged as assistant master at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont. He was ordered

became a king’s revenue collector and surveyor. At the time of the American revolution, Sterling’s denunciation of the administration of Lieutenant

, according to surveyor Joseph Bouchette*’s observations, it had about 5,500 inhabitants, who made their livelihood primarily from farming. Besides

. Details of Thompson’s activities are scarce. When applying to Surveyor General George Sproule* for a grant of land in 1817, he indicated that he

Turnor to the company as the first of its proposed inland surveyors, a recommendation well worth the five guineas it paid to Wales “for his trouble.” In the early 1780s Wales helped with the

to Quebec. Five years later she married Captain Bayfield, surveyor of the St Lawrence River and Gulf. Bayfield, in a letter to a friend, described his bride as “handsome, amiable, religious, and

Merrick* and J. Flieger of the surveyor general’s department. The result, St George’s Round Church, still stands – an architectural landmark of downtown Halifax. Wright officiated at the

YOUNG, THOMAS, artist, teacher, architect, politician, civil engineer, and surveyor; b. c. 1805 in England, son of Thomas

Legislative Council, which was announced in May 1835. The possibility of the surveyor generalship was mentioned indirectly but nothing happened initially. There were rumours that Macaulay might not take

, engineer, surveyor, cartographer, businessman, procurator-syndic of the village of Quebec, head clerk of the Communauté des Habitants, explorer, attorney-general in the Conseil Souverain; b. c

had been seized earlier, be released. It also recommended an investigation into the conduct of the deputy surveyor in the area, Michael Carruthers, some of whose actions seemed designed to damage

further increased his holdings as a result of lawsuits against debtors. On such occasions, it was not unusual for him to seek advice from the surveyor general about the quality and value of the lots in

fish there. He decided to bring out a surveyor to begin charting the largely unknown coasts of his station. Although Hugh Palliser* is usually

two sawmills, and erecting a manor-house at present-day Iberville. An appointment by Murray in 1765 as deputy surveyor of the king’s woods

assisted the surveyor general of the province in improving the standard of surveying. Jack has, however, the distinction of being the first Canadian astronomer, with contributions to this field in four

Plessis, a determined opponent of the Royal Institution, and in the end clerical influence aborted the project. By 1815 Surveyor General Joseph

McDONALD, ARCHIBALD, colonial administrator, author, fur trader, justice of the peace, and surveyor; b

difficulties for the surveyor general and the deputy superintendent general of Indian affairs. McGill was held accountable to the commissary general at Quebec, John

ports, Pagan’s lumbering operations prospered. During the course of them he and his brothers were accused by the deputy surveyor of the king’s woods, James

PLAW, JOHN, architect and surveyor; baptized 8 Jan. 1746 in Putney (London), England, son of John Plaw and

SMITH, TITUS, farmer, surveyor, office holder, botanist, author, and journalist; b

and process-server those of prison keeper at Trois-Rivières, clerk of court, and sworn surveyor: enough to keep him busy! Adhémar had married

drafting of surveyor’s reports. In 1797 Antrobus took his family to live at Trois-Rivières, on a property purchased for £1,200. That year he was appointed

-là-Crosse (Sask.), he travelled up the Beaver River to build at Green Lake. En route he encountered HBC surveyor Peter

education and stimulated his theological interests. Nathan became a teacher and surveyor, skills he practised near Niagara after he came to Upper Canada in 1799. There he met many Methodists, and through

northwestward, but it suffered starvation and ambush and produced little of value; meanwhile the vessel, commanded by the expedition’s surveyor, Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev, went back to explore the Aleutians

surveyor general, receiver general, and auditor general, and the appointment of his son George Pidgeon Bliss to those posts. Douglas was unable to confirm the appointment, but to pacify the ex-administrator

Parr* and Charles Morris, the surveyor general. In Conway, as well, a group of dissatisfied

entry into confederation, and after his election in March of that year he became surveyor general in the anti-confederate government of Albert James

BOULTON, CHARLES ARKOLL, army officer, militia officer, surveyor, businessman, politician, author, farmer, and office holder; b

Erie. On 17 June he moved to Winnipeg, where he worked as a surveyor. In 1871–72 he was an assistant in charge of federal survey parties in and around Winnipeg. He succeeded Alexander

. Burn left White Creek for Queenston, Upper Canada, in early September 1803 and spent the autumn with a surveyor exploring lands on Lake Erie and the Thames River. After consulting with the earl about

on privateering raids in the West Indies. The Wylloby was owned by his fellow Welshmen, Sir Robert Mansel, who became treasurer of the navy in 1604, and Sir John Trevor, surveyor of

, surveyor of the highways, streets, and lanes for the town, ordered 700 to 800 square toises of paving stones for Rue Saint-Pierre. Cannon was to receive “the sum of five shillings and ten pence in

surveyor’s commission. But through force of circumstance he was soon involved in managing his father’s seigneuries. While in France his father had added to his seigneuries of Lotbinière and Alainville those of

Shefford Township and Missisquoi Bay. After buying a lot from surveyor Jesse Pennoyer* in 1800

development. Although Major Ross and Deputy Surveyor General John Collins* have received many of the laurels for laying the foundations of

commissioners – Nicholas Cox, lieutenant governor of Gaspé, John Collins, deputy surveyor general of Quebec, and Abbé Bourg – were at Restigouche village from 29 June to 1 July. On 30