Otto Klotz Diary - August 16, 1887 (Vol 10)
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Title
Otto Klotz Diary - August 16, 1887 (Vol 10)
Creator
Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923.
Source
Part of R6645-0-4-E (LAC)
Publisher
Stakeholders Project
Date
1887-08-16
Contributor
University of Ottawa Library
Faculty of Arts
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Diary entry
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Klotz_Vol10_1887_08_16
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Finished the examinations + Char T. [Lymunces] passed very creditably. In afternoon I called on Mr. Deville Surveyor General. We talked over my work. He is very undecided about anything, or rather very easily upset but meeting with any obstacle. Unfortunately as Surveyor General he cannot have carte blanche in his own sphere as Denis + Russel his predecessors had. I believe that I in that position would give more prestige to the position than he does. My programme of work is evidently hap-hazard and made by myself and working in the dark, not knowing for certainty what the next move will be. It had been my intention to connect Winnipeg with Montreal, the latter being established in longitude but Mr. D wants this determination made with the new transit which has not yet arrived, and hence suggested Rat Portage at noon to us, this afternoon he changed it to [Jufolf], the meridian of the Northwest angle an important international point.
I called don Mrs. Burgess but she was not in. In the evening was at McKing’s and at 11 P.M. left for home.
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Finished the examinations + Char T. [Lymunces] passed very creditably. In afternoon I called on Mr. Deville Surveyor General. We talked over my work. He is very undecided about anything, or rather very easily upset but meeting with any obstacle. Unfortunately as Surveyor General he cannot have carte blanche in his own sphere as Denis + Russel his predecessors had. I believe that I in that position would give more prestige to the position than he does. My programme of work is evidently hap-hazard and made by myself and working in the dark, not knowing for certainty what the next move will be. It had been my intention to connect Winnipeg with Montreal, the latter being established in longitude but Mr. D wants this determination made with the new transit which has not yet arrived, and hence suggested Rat Portage at noon to us, this afternoon he changed it to [Jufolf], the meridian of the Northwest angle an important international point.
I called don Mrs. Burgess but she was not in. In the evening was at McKing’s and at 11 P.M. left for home.
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Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923., “Otto Klotz Diary - August 16, 1887 (Vol 10),” stakeholders, accessed November 12, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/stakeholders/items/show/458.