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- OBJECT TYPE
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- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1986.0347.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- PHOTOGRAPH MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD
Dimensions
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- Length
- 51.0 cm
- Width
- 40.4 cm
- Height
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- Thickness
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- Weight
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- Diameter
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- Volume
- N/A
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- Group
- Astronomy
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
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- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
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- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
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- Canada
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- ELABORATELY SCRIPTED DOCUMENT ADDRESSED: ‘To/ Andrew Russell Esqr./ The Surveyors' throughout the Dominion/ of Canada embrace this opportune time on your retirement from active service for presenting you/ with this Address expressing as it does in but a feeble manner/ the esteem in which you are held by the profession./ During your fifty-four years of public service in the Departments of the old Province of Canada and/ of the Dominion of Canada you have preserved throughout that high standard of public morality, integrity, and fault-/ less character/ SO WORTHY OF EMULATION./ In the Crown Lands Department as well as in the Department of the Interior you have left your ineffaceable/ mark, ever prompted by the sense of duty regardless of personal ends. [A] generation has seen you in harness, unassuming but/ treading the path of honor./ But our gratitiude centres especially upon your professional career. It was you who introduced into Canada the use/ of the transit theodolite upon the public surveys, displacing the less accurate and variable compass. It was you who pointed/ to the star for a sure guide, instead of to the fickle magnetic pole. Through your unceasing efforts, surveying has attained/ its present high standard, every aiming higher and now is an honourable profession./ Rightly may we/ STYLE YOU THE/ FATHER OF/ ASTRONOMIC SURVEYING/ IN CANADA, AND PROUD/ ARE WE OF/ so worthy a progenitor/ May the laurel wreath you have WON resting in its snowy bed/ brighten your remaining days in your quiet retreat/ AND/ will posterity record; HIS WORK IS WELL DONE./ Signed on behalf of the Surveyors by/ [signature]/ Sec. Treas./ [signature]/ President Association of Dom / Land Surveyors/ Ottawa, March 20th, 1884'./ IN SMALL PRINT, IN LOWER RIGHT OF DOCUMENT: ‘W. Bruce Hamilton, Ont.'
- Missing
- From CA of 12/20/1994 by Sue Warren: No - Complete
- Finish
- BLACK & WHITE PHOTO ON BLACK CARDBOARD
- Decoration
- VINE & LEAF MOTIF BORDERS TEXT/ ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE A THEODOLITE, COMPASS, TRIANGLE, TAPE, PLUMB BOB, SURVEYOR'S CHAIN & GLOBE/ TEXT PREFACED BY DRAWING OF AN ARM, WITH A LAUREL WREATH IN HAND.
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Unknown Manufacturer, Photograph, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1986.0347, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1986.0347.001/
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