Saint-Paul, made over to him by his wife’s brothers and valued at 1,500 livres. On 16 Oct. 1721 Couagne was commissioned as a surveyor, but he does not seem to have practised this

securing the position of city surveyor for John George Howard in May 1843. Craig was, as well, an early member of the St Patrick’s Benevolent Society and of the Emigrant Society of Upper Canada

Breton Island, where his father held the position of crown surveyor. In 1816 Crawley entered King’s College in Windsor, N.S., and was graduated ba in 1820. He then studied

to go. Attorney General Archibald, Colonial Secretary James Crowdy, and Surveyor General Joseph

favourite of the Niagara merchants, Surveyor General David William Smith*, who was running for election in Welch’s area. In 1807 Dickson

natural increase. Moreover, according to surveyor Joseph Bouchette*, between 1815 and 1820 six schooners transported to the Quebec market

land, and he even joined a group of surveyors to carry out a detailed evaluation of the site. By agreement with the Canadian government 50

fend off the threat. The spokesman of the group, Duncan tried on 2 July to enlist Surveyor General David William Smith* as a

Browne*, but also in that of Joseph Rielle, a surveyor. He noted that this latter experience would prove beneficial to him. He ended his training by spending some time in Detroit, an unusual step for a

five years. Three years later, along with Francis Mackay, surveyor general of the king’s woods, and the Montreal merchant Samuel McKay, Finlay was granted Lot 55 on St John’s (Prince Edward

Wentworth, surveyor general of the king’s woods. When Wentworth became Nova Scotia’s lieutenant governor in 1792 he used his authority to promote the interests of Forsyth, whom he termed “my most

was the only one who refused to give this assurance. The defeat of the surveyor general, James Brown*, at the polls in June left

 1806 he successfully applied for 200 acres on the island near Castalia. The following July he helped deputy surveyor Donald MacDonald survey sections of Grand Manan, and around 1811 he moved to Wood

surveyor, notary, and replacement for the priest. Some of the missionaries accused him of possessing dangerous books and hence giving insidious advice to people. Gueguen did have an impressive library, which

settlement and acted on several occasions in favour of petitioners from the region, supporting their requests for land. In 1814, for example, he intervened with Surveyor General George

five years later it was brought up to date by the city surveyor, Joseph Hamel. In April 1837 Hawkins founded the Morning Herald and Commercial Advertiser, which was published in Quebec

HOWLEY, JAMES PATRICK, geologist, surveyor, museum curator, and author; b. 7 July 1847 near St John’s, son of Richard

: contrary to statements often made, there is no evidence that he was an engineer or even a land surveyor. He belonged to the class, already disappearing by the mid 19th century, whose members might expect to

and a new prison at Quebec. In 1808 he received the post of surveyor for the preservation of woods and timber for Lower Canada. His loyalty to the crown also brought him appointment to the Legislative

they put it, that “settlement lands in Ontario were already exhausted.” To do this they drew upon the reports of surveyors, land agents, and others to show that “millions of acres” of cultivable crown

of Longueuil increasing rapidly, she had part of the domain divided into lots in 1835 and got a street plan drawn up by surveyor Joseph Weilbrenner

, commandant of Chambly, and road surveyor. On 5 May 1700 the minister of Marine, Pontchartrain, wrote to the intendant, Champigny

, and they had one daughter and two sons; d. 13 Feb. 1907 in Ponoka, Alta. Samuel Lucas became a surveyor in his youth and practised that

corruption, including dominion lands agent Gilbert McMicken* and surveyor general John Stoughton

. L’Hermitte was recognized as a good draftsman, surveyor, and cartographer. In 1698 he was sent to Acadia to survey potential harbour facilities and natural resources (especially timber for the navy) on the

, harbours, and navigable water routes. Although the report bears the signature of John Collins*, deputy surveyor general of Quebec, it is

offices such as immigration agent and surveyor of shipping, and busied himself in community work, especially in the local Presbyterian church. Elected to

1849. Quebec Gazette, 3 Dec. 1818, 5 July 1821. J G. MacGregor, Peter Fidler: Canada’s forgotten surveyor, 1769–1822 (Toronto and Montreal, 1966). C. W. Mackenzie

’Arsac* de Ternay]. Once the 77th was disbanded in 1763, McKinnon went on half pay, and some time afterwards he accompanied a party of surveyors to southwestern Nova Scotia, where they were to lay out

necessitated by his becoming surveyor general. Wilmot’s success brought immediate resignations from Tilley, Ritchie, and Simonds, but Needham decided not to follow their lead and remained in the assembly until

secretary and treasurer of the committee set up to advance the scheme. He was largely responsible for supervising the work of the surveyors of the proposed routes; as treasurer he collected subscriptions and

Sandhurst, England. In 1849 he sailed for India, where he qualified in native languages and became a surveyor and engineer. He saw service during the mutiny, and in 1861 went to Ceylon as assistant military

Marston* in the salaried position of deputy to John Wentworth*, surveyor general of the king’s woods, a post he filled

have his reserve at Leech Lake, where the band had been residing. Surveyor William Wagner* was instructed to lay out the required amount of

claim to one of his former lots in Grantham to a resident of Halton County, Lemuel Brown. Unfortunately Pierpoint had given the wrong concession number for the Grantham property and the Surveyor General’s

he became a wealthy man. A plan of Montreal published by the surveyor general, Joseph Bouchette, in 1815

 – as an accountant, real estate agent, and surveyor. In 1914 Quigley was in Winnipeg, and when World War I broke out he enrolled in the army. He

population was mainly Cree. While there, he became disenchanted with the Church of England and began to question its tenets. Through William Augustus Austin, a surveyor, he learned of the Plymouth Brethren, a

Ridout*, surveyor general of Upper Canada, and of Mary Campbell; d. at Clinton, Ont., 24 Feb. 1871. George Ridout attended John

of the town’s 1st Militia Battalion; the following year he was promoted lieutenant. In 1818 he quit his position as librarian and formed a general agency at Quebec in partnership with surveyor Robert

. A year later Joseph-Thomas Saint-Aubin, “Indian chief,” appears in a document of 4 Aug. 1818, when he complained to Surveyor General George

, consisted of Schwatka; William Henry Gilder of the New York Herald; Heinrich Wenzl Klutschak, an artist and surveyor; Frank F. Melms, an experienced Arctic traveller; and Ipilkvik (Joe Ebierbing

*, and was admitted to the bar in January 1821. The following May he married Frances Elizabeth, the daughter of Surveyor General Thomas

AO, Map coll., “Plan of the township of Otonabee . . . with the locations therein made at the Surveyor General’s Office prior to the 6 Jan. 1820; surveyed by Richard Birdsall, Comd

it opened at York in 1807. In 1810 he entered the office of the lieutenant governor, was transferred to the surveyor general’s office in 1811, and in 1812 was a copying clerk to the assembly

the work of others – he received his first appointments in 1784, as deputy surveyor of pines for the Island and deputy mustermaster of the disbanded troops and loyalists both on the Island and in

investment by Moxley, but a report in 1790 of John Wentworth, surveyor general of the king’s woods in North

although she may have been just a close relative. Then, in 1798, Brant’s friend Augustus Jones*, a white surveyor, married Tekarihogen’s

council convened by Tonené on Bear Island proposed a reserve of some 100 square miles around Cross Lake and the south end of Lake Temagami. Dominion land surveyor George B. Abrey visited the area that

affairs was extensive. At various times he served as justice of the peace, custos rotulorum for Hants, justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Hants, and provincial surveyor or