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Fieldbooks [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1883-1909

Reference:

R217-26-4-E, RG139-B

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

181476

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Department of Fisheries and Oceans fonds

Canadian Hydrographic Service

Fieldbooks
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Series includes:

19 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1883-1909

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

57.4 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

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Field notes of Canadian Hydrographic Survey [textual record]

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Sub-series consists of fieldbooks dating from 1883, when Commander J.G. Boulton, Staff Commander in Britain's Royal Navy, was seconded to the Georgian Bay Survey. A forerunner of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada (See Order-in-Council 1904-401), the Georgian Bay Survey was prompted by the loss of the steamship ASIA in Georgian Bay in September 1882.

These fieldbooks are typical of the kind of notebook that Victorian scientists often took with them on field trips and used to record their observations of various natural phenomena. The mathematical notations and computations found in these books were entered in pencil that is now sometimes smudged or faded and, therefore, illegible. Similarly, the scrawled comments and symbols that appear are frequently indecipherable. The numerous sketch maps, however, remain relatively clear. The logs do manage to provide a glimpse of the comparatively rudimentary surveying methods of the day. Included are fieldbooks from some of the first individuals to do hydrographic surveying in Canadian waters, specifically in Lake Huron and, again, in Georgian Bay. Included are the notebooks of W.J. Stewart, J.G. Boulton, D.C. Campbell, F. Anderson, and P.C. Musgrave.

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(Electronic) The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" fields in the MIKAN record, volumes 30-32. 139-1 (90: Open)

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Government

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2004-01484-9
RG139

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RG139-B
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R217] 2581--2864

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [RG139] 30--32

[Consultation 90 Open]

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