A Guide to Official Canadian Maps, Charts, Atlases and Gazetteers . Archon Books, Shoestring Press, 1981. 0108017828 A very useful handbook when dealing with early federal and provincial government mapping, with sample maps, information on contents of map series, and tables of maps in various series. Includes a section on British Columbia maps. These surveyors field books were used in study of vegetation in the Lower Fraser Valley, but the authors show the variety of information included in the notes and sketches in the field books.
Information is given on the survey system.
Several maps are included. Traces the mapping of British Columbia from the time of the Spanish voyages of exploration in the late 18th century through to the detailed topographic mapping of the 1970s, including hydrographic surveys of the coasts, exploratory surveys inland along river routes, cadastral and topographic mapping. The work of the early surveyors is detailed, and the progress of mapping is detailed through the work of successive Surveyors-General, and the gradual development of provincial government departments. D. L. A History of the British Columbia Lands Service . British Columbia Lands Service, 1971.