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The son of a prominent state politician and judge, Nathaniel Hazard Tredwell was educated at Clinton Academy in East Hampton, Long Island, and trained as a civil engineer and land surveyor. He carried
back any administration that would reduce stumpage and provide Northumberland with cabinet representation, joined the government as surveyor general, responsible for crown lands. Stumpage fees were to be
skills and professional values was to be evident throughout Watts’s career.
Watts practised as a draftsman, surveyor, and evaluator in London before
Wentworth*, surveyor general of the king’s woods, reaped results with his appointment by Governor John Parr* as justice of the peace for Halifax
. C. Harvey (Toronto, 1955). Map of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, comprising the latest topographical information afforded by the Surveyor Generals Office and other
, Valentine was sent to open the new branch.
In 1886 Valentine Winkler married Josephine Rombough, the daughter of a dominion land surveyor who had moved to
senior deputy surveyor of woods and forests on the Grand River, assisted by Charles Bain. Blair possessed an argumentative personality and was not entirely happy with departmental policies and the use of
WRIGHT, GUSTAVUS BLINN, businessman, surveyor, and ship’s captain; b. 22 June 1830 in Burlington, Vt; m. 25 Feb
memorial he referred to himself as “a sworn surveyor.” He is known to have married at least twice and to have had at least five children. According to his own account, also dated 1843, he immigrated to “the
] discovered surveyors near the present site of Medicine Hat (Alta); the chief claimed they had no right to survey and sent for Big Bear who was at the Red Deer Forks (Sask.), while the surveyors sent for the
officials did not always conform, however, to the advice he gave to aboriginal people. When in 1889 surveyors began to subdivide Treaty 4 reserves into 40-acre lots without informing or consulting the
of his firms. He was not above using bribery to lure away operators cutting timber for Cunard and for a time in the early 1840s he had a deputy surveyor, Michael Carruthers, completely under his thumb
COOK, JAMES, naval officer, surveyor, and explorer; b. 27 Oct. 1728 in Marton-in-Cleveland (Marton, North
of Thomas Talbot, whom he also supported against his Executive Council in a dispute in 1811 with the surveyor Simon Zelotes Watson over land claims along the Talbot Road. The following year, when Gore
Langley to provide aid, conveyed Moody on his further examination of the river sites. Douglas had had Joseph Despard Pemberton, the colonial surveyor of Vancouver Island, lay out a town site of 900 acres
councillors limited. He dismissed from office and council, as in Dominica, those who questioned his decisions, including Thomas H. Crawley, the long-serving surveyor general, and Richard
.”
Alloway also provided the surveyors with the common “bushed and banded” native carts (so called because of the iron boxing around the axles and the bands on the hubs) and shamelessly lined his pockets
the Executive and Legislative councils and the county lieutenancy of Kent. Surveyor General David William Smith* noted the probable
received no pay, Hind, under the misapprehension that he was to be appointed provincial geological surveyor, viewed their activities as a threat and attacked them scurrilously in the press. He cited Bailey’s
Hugh Baird’s death in 1827, Nicol unsuccessfully sought a situation in the army and an appointment as a surveyor. In the spring of 1828, having obtained letters of recommendation from the Duke of
.
The son of a civil engineer and land surveyor in Trois-Rivières, Joseph Barnard came from a family that had been living in the Mauricie region since the arrival of his grandfather, Edward Barnard. Of
, a farmer and land surveyor, and Keziah Wheeler; d. 23 Aug. 1809 in Kingston, N.B.
John Beardsley was baptized by the Reverend
outbreak of war in June 1812, Bentley was assisting Surveyor General Thomas Ridout* with a project of some sort in Markham. The war
of Hugh McKay, his predecessor in the office. In December 1798 Bentley had been appointed surveyor of the city and suburbs of Quebec, and in May 1801 he replaced William
Thompson* as principal surveyor. In August they linked up with Delafield’s party at St Joseph Island in northern Lake Huron and, after leaving the Americans, surveyed Manitoulin, Drummond, and other
Mahlon Burwell, land surveyor ([Toronto, 1899?]); and “Agricultural vs. manufacturing profits,” Canadian Magazine, 23 (May–October 1904): 523–24
Chaleurs, and a property on the site of present-day Charlo. Since he never received the title-deeds, his heirs later encountered many difficulties; in 1806 surveyor George
marriage for an ambitious young man: Marshall was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Cape Breton. By 1838 Bourinot had been made a justice of the peace, and in the 1840s he was appointed surveyor
Tweedie*, became the surveyor general, two reaped a public works reward, but Burchill was content with a reduction in stumpage fees. The press and the opposition were vicious in their condemnations
company. A third daughter, Adélaïde, married Joseph Bouchette*, surveyor general of the Canadas
roll would be drawn up on even sounder bases.
Thus in 1832 Chandler gave surveyor Jean-Baptiste Legendre, from Gentilly (Bécancour), the task of laying
(Menasha, Wis.), new ser., 26 (1924): 108–19. C. Æ. Shaw, Tales of a pioneer surveyor, ed. Raymond Hull (Don Mills [North York], Ont., 1970). H. W. G. Stocken
became a provincial surveyor in 1790, he himself went into business. By November 1782 he was established in Montreal, where he sold, among other things, West India rum, French and English brandy, port
Aulte,” during her minority. When she reached 21, the balance of the estate of £5,000 was to pass to her.
James Colnett was a capable officer, surveyor
councillor who alternated his residence between New York and Upper Canada, to Surveyor General David William Smith*. On 30 Sept
applying to become surveyor general of Newfoundland. The post went instead to Joseph Noad* in 1832
surveyors [see Samuel Anderson*], but reports of fighting near the border between natives and the United States army caused Ottawa to
(such as engineering or land surveying). At the request of the president of the Land Surveyors of the Province of Quebec, Joseph-Narcisse
and Surveyor General Charles Morris, as members of the association the previous December. In July
Wentworth, surveyor general of the king’s woods in North America, and soon to be, in 1792, lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia. Always ready to help Blair and Glenie in fulfilling their contracts
May 1783 Governor Haldimand ordered Surveyor General Samuel Johannes
Irish descent, in 1848. In addition to Mary Ellen, the couple had five sons, one of whom died in infancy. Initially a surveyor, Thomas became a civil engineer. In 1861, while her parents resided
Manufactures for Upper Canada and was secretary of the Association of Architects, Civil Engineers, and Provincial Land Surveyors of Canada. An ardent freemason, he was associated with many masonic organizations
HORETZKY, CHARLES GEORGE, HBC clerk, photographer, surveyor, author, engineer, and office holder; b. 20 July 1838 in
the engineer and surveyor Jean Bourdon to draw up a plan for the future town, and himself chose the names of the
IRWIN, THOMAS, teacher, surveyor, philologist, and author; d. 1847 near Naufrage, P.E.I
shortly to be Augusta Township. He served briefly as a commissary for the loyalist settlers, thereby gaining the sobriquet “Commissary Jones,” and in late 1784 Surveyor General Samuel Johannes
Halifax with Bangor, Maine [see Edward Barron Chandler*]. He was first a telegrapher and then a surveyor before his abilities
acquisition was a valuable one and, although remaining in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, he exploited it fully. By 1815 Surveyor General Joseph Bouchette