Return: Answer to an Address of the House of Commons of the 22nd March, 1909 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Return: Answer to an Address of the House of Commons of the 22nd March, 1909

Sun - The following Memorial is respectfully submitted for your consideration by the Association of Dominion Land Surveyors.

The Dominion has arrived at that stage when the wants of the country demand a more exact system of survey than has been in vogue in the past. With the increase in the value of real property - the boundaries of which in the older provinces are in most cases entirely dependent for their stability on the durability of a piece of wood, a few marks on trees or the testimony of a few of the oldest inhabitants, thus often leading to expensive litigation, of which the result is dependent mainly on the preponderance of evidence on one or the other side, which may be, and is often wrong - increases also the necessity for such a survey. Now, were the boundaries - especially those of large areas, such as concessions, townships and counties - connected with, and defined by a geodetic survey, similar to that made by the countries mentioned herein, all doubt as to their true position would be forever set at rest. Also the demands for marine pur poses of more accurate charts of our coast, and waters, show that an accurate coast and geodetic survey of the country is urgently needed.

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