Mapping a northern land
Subtitle: the survey of Canada, 1947-1994
By: edited by Gerald McGrath and Louis M. Sebert.
Contributors: McGrath, Gerald.; Sebert, L. M.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 668
Subjects: Cartography -- Canada -- History; Surveyors -- Canada; Canada -- Surveys -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Surveying and mapping : the era of change -- Gerald McGrath and Louis M. Sebert; title: Geodesy in Canada, and international and interprovincial boundaries -- George Babbage and Allen C. Roberts; title: Phtogrammetry and federal topographic mapping -- Leslie J. O'Brien and Louis M. Sebert; title: Provincial topographic mapping ;; title: Military surveys -- Louis M. Sebert; title: Canada's private sector air survey industry -- Donald W. McLarty; title: Cadastral surveys in Canada -- Alec C. McEwen; title: Hydrographic surveying and charting -- David H. Gray; title: Canadian aeronautical charts -- Louis M. Sebert; title: Canadian atlases : national, provincial, educational, and thematic -- George Falconer, Lillian J. Wonders, and Iain C. Taylor; title: Federal, provincial, and private sector thematic mapping -- George Falconer; title: Research in Canada -- Gerard Lachapelle ... [et al.]; title: Education -- Angus C. Hamilton; title: Remote sensing in Canada -- Leo Sayn-Wittgenstein, Robert A. Ryerson, and Frank Hegyi; title: GIS and LIS in Canada -- Roger F. Tomlinson and Michael A.G. Toomey; title: Engineering and mining surveys -- Adam Chrzanowski; title: Marketing spatial information ;; title: Canada's international role ;; title: Retrospect and prospects -- Gerald McGrath.