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* -and boundary monuments 1550 BC * Compass was not initially used to tell direction until the 9th century Compasses were used as survey instruments on this continent until the mid 19th century. Even in the last century they were used for rough measurements. * Survey and Mapping developments in the 16th Century expanded the horizons of European settlement. Was largely led by men skilled in navigation – early surveyors. * * * Sextant, chronometer, compass – mostly used astronomical observations * Champlain and his astrolabe – Nepean Point - Ottawa * Peter Fidler – Canada’s Forgotten Surveyor – James MacGregor * David Thompson and Peter Fidler were cohorts with the HBC but Thomson grew impatient with the HBC lack of interest in accurate charting. DT joined the NW Company – His chats were the most comprehensive and most accurate maps of Western Canada and the NW US until the late 1800’s Natives called David Thompson “koo-koo-sint” The man who looks at the stars! * * George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln – all were surveyors in their early careers. * * In the book “North-west of Sixteen” James MacGregor tells of his father in 1904, when seeking out his homestead north of Edmonton, finding the “stake” that marked the southwest corner of his quarter section. Sculpture sits on the main floor of the Provincial Museum in Edmonton * * Most images have been provided by Ken Allred, ALS, CLS and Patrick Ringwood, BCLS, CLS A History of Surveying Eratosthenes 276 B.C. From Eratosthenes to GPD The oldest known topographic map on a clay tablet of a northern part of Mesopotamia 3800 BC Cadastral Plan - Mesopatamia - 1700 BC I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Zechariah 2:1 The Rope Stretchers The Pyramids Pythagoras Flooding of the Nile Early cadastral records to 3400 BC Early Egyptian Civilization Ancient Boundary Stone Compass developed Chinese invention - south pointing sp