Marker part, survey

Marker part, survey

Exploration and Survey

Landmarks

IN 1836 INDIAN TITLE TO MANITOULIN ISLAND WAS SURRENDERED TO THE CROWN

IN 1862 AN AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED CREATING A RESERVE FOR OTTAWA, CHIPPEWA & OTHER INDIANS THERE. IN 1877 GEORGE B. ABREY, D.L.S. PERFORMED THE MANITOULIN ISLAND RESERVE SURVEY, ONE OF THE EARLIEST RECORDED POST-CONFEDERATION RESERVE SURVEYS (REF.2)

TO IDENTIFY THE PRECISE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF A SPECIFIC SITE, AS DETERMINED BY A SURVEYOR. WOODEN POSTS WERE USED EXTENSIVELY AS SURVEY MARKERS UNTIL C.1908. TYPICALLY THE TOP WAS POINTED TO SHED WATER & SO RETARD DECAY. THIS POST WAS PLANTED IN 1918 AND ILLUSTRATES THE CONTINUING USE OF WOODEN MARKERS. PART OF CDN LANDMARKS COLL, EST'D IN 1952 BY R.W. CLARK. D.L.S. THESE MARKERS SPAN OVER 200 YRS. OF CANADIAN SURVEYING & INCLUDE ITEMS FROM EVERY PROVINCE & TERRITORY EXCEPT NFLD.

*SOURCE: HISTORIC MONUMENTS COMMITTEE, MR. R.O. SEMPER, CHAIRMAN/ ORIGINALLY POST MOUNTED WITH MARKER 730790 ON DISPLAY BOARD, REMOVED BY NMST 1994.02.00/ SEE ALSO MARKER 730815/ CEDAR POST PLANTED AT TRUE CORNER OF LOT 111, WEST BAY VILLAGE, WEST BAY INDIAN RESERVE NO.22, MANITOULIN ISLAND, ON BY T.J. PATTEN, O.L.S. IN 1918/ IRON POST 730790 PLACED NEAR CEDAR MARKER NOV.25, 1918 BY SAME SURVEYOR/ CEDAR POST REPLACED BY C.L.S. STANDARD POST MAY 24, 1963 BY W.F. QUINSEY, O.L.S./ SEE ALSO 940446-940450/

1918-1963

1918

1963

Government of Canada Open Government Licence https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

1973.0789

Ontario

WEST BAY VILLAGE, WEST BAY INDIAN RESERVE NO.22 MANITOULIN ISLAND