The British Contribution to the Hydrography of Canada
Almost inevitably, the starting point for an account of “The British Contribution to the Hydrographic Surveying of Canada” must start with Captain Cook. B.C. — or before Cook — most other British visitors to Canadian waters had produced “maps” rather than “ charts” . It is harder to decide on a fini...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/23508 2023-05-15T17:21:59+02:00 The British Contribution to the Hydrography of Canada Haslam, D. W. 2015-07-15 application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/23508 eng eng The International Hydrographic Review https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/23508/27281 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/23508 Copyright (c) 2015 The International Hydrographic Review The International Hydrographic Review; 1984: Vol. LXI, No. 1 0020-6946 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:52:46Z Almost inevitably, the starting point for an account of “The British Contribution to the Hydrographic Surveying of Canada” must start with Captain Cook. B.C. — or before Cook — most other British visitors to Canadian waters had produced “maps” rather than “ charts” . It is harder to decide on a finishing point : although the Canadian Parliament attained authority in 1867 over certain navigational matters and the Canadian Hydrographic Office was formed in 1883, it was not until 1908 that the first Canadian ship Lilloet was available to take over the surveying task and HM ships continued to survey off British Columbia until 1910, off Newfoundland till 1912 — indeed, HMS Challenger was surveying off Labrador from 1932 to 1934. The paper considers the subject in the four sections of Canada’s roughly rectangular boundaries. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Newfoundland Canada British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) |
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Almost inevitably, the starting point for an account of “The British Contribution to the Hydrographic Surveying of Canada” must start with Captain Cook. B.C. — or before Cook — most other British visitors to Canadian waters had produced “maps” rather than “ charts” . It is harder to decide on a finishing point : although the Canadian Parliament attained authority in 1867 over certain navigational matters and the Canadian Hydrographic Office was formed in 1883, it was not until 1908 that the first Canadian ship Lilloet was available to take over the surveying task and HM ships continued to survey off British Columbia until 1910, off Newfoundland till 1912 — indeed, HMS Challenger was surveying off Labrador from 1932 to 1934. The paper considers the subject in the four sections of Canada’s roughly rectangular boundaries. |
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The British Contribution to the Hydrography of Canada |
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