Charting northern waters : essays for the centenary of the Canadian Hydrographic Service / edited by William Glover.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glover, William.

Canadian Hydrographic Service.

Canadian Nautical Research Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian Hydrographic Service.

Hydrographic surveying--Canada--History.

Hydrographic surveying.

Canadian Hydrographic Service--History.

History.

Canada.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xviii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for the Canadian Nautical Research Society and made possible with financial support from CARIS by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

Contents:

1 Hydrography in New France / James Pritchard 10

2 Alejandro Malaspina's Survey Operations on the Northwest Coast, 1791-1792 / Andrew David 22

3 The Publication of British Admiralty Charts for British Columbia in the Nineteenth Century / Andrew S. Cook 50

4 "The Incarnation of Energy": Raymond Prefontaine, the Hydrographic Survey of Canada, and the Establishment of a Canadian Naval Militia / Richard H. Gimblett 74

5 Hydrographic Survey Work of the Departments of Public Works, Railways and Canals, and the Interior, 1867-1914 / Christopher Andreae 93

6 HMS Challenger's Surveys in Labrador, 1932-1934 / G.S. Ritchie 113

7 Hydrographic Studies of Russia's Northern Oceans, 1900-1940 / Vladimir Sergeevich Sobolev, Translated by George Bolotenko 142

8 Wartime German Hydrography in Canadian Waters / Michael L. Hadley 163

9 Canadian Technical Advances in Hydrography since 1945 / David H. Gray 178

10 At Sea with Hydro: William Metcalf and USS Edisto's Arctic Cruise, Spring 1951 / Gary E. Weir 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-269) and index.

ISBN:

0773527109

OCLC:

53252076