Admiral Bayfield : pioneer nautical surveyor / Ruth McKenzie. : Fs4-31/32E-PDF
"Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield pioneered hydrography in Canada. From 1816 to 1856 he surveyed the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River and Gulf (islands, inlets, and bays) and the coasts of the Maritime Provinces. Admiral Bayfield provided navigation charts, detailed maps of shorelines, and the first Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence. This is the biography of the man who surveyed practically the entire shoreline from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, and who retired 11 years before Confederation"--Introduction.
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| Ministère/Organisme | Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service, issuing body. |
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| Titre | Admiral Bayfield : pioneer nautical surveyor / Ruth McKenzie. |
| Titre de la série | Miscellaneous special publication ; 32 |
| Type de publication | Monographie |
| Langue | [Anglais] |
| Format | Électronique |
| Document électronique | |
| Note(s) | Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada]. Issued also in French under title: L'amiral Bayfield : pionnier de l'hydrographie marine. Includes bibliographical references (page 13). |
| Information sur la publication | Ottawa : Environment Canada, Fisheries and Marine Service, 1976. ©1976 |
| Auteur / Contributeur | McKenzie, Ruth, author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (14 pages) : photographs, map. |
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| Descripteurs | Bayfield, H. W.,1795-1885. Surveyors, Marine -- Canada -- Biography. |