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Surveyors Mark Manitoba’s Landscape Through Names and Maps
Manitoba surveyors shaped the province with topography based planning and river lot systems. Names like Allbright Ponton O Hanly and Dennis Lake memorialize these pioneers who mapped the Red River settlement and Hudson Bay lands. The article notes key figures Simon Dawson John Stoughton Dennis and Adam Archibald shaping the Northwest Territories survey framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.N. Allbright
Allbright Lake
Archibald W. Ponton
Ponton
Archie Lake
J. L. P. O’hanly
O’hanly
P.O
Philip Turner
Canada
Peter Fidler
Hudson's Bay Company
River
Lota
Lord Selkirk
Red River
Prairies
George Taylor
William Inkster
Roger Goulet
Herbert Sabine
Hind-Dawson
Palliser
Dominion
United States
Confederation
Hudson’s Bay Company
Rupert's Land
Canadian
Northwest Territories
Simon Dawson
John A. Snow
Fort Garry
Dawson Trail
Snow’s
John Stoughton Dennis
Surveyor General of
St. Paul
Minnesota
Webb
Louis Riel
Hudson's Bay
Adam G. Archibald
J. S. Dennis
Milner Hart
Dennis
Teulon
Hart
Porcupine Hills
Carroll Lake
Gammon River
Lawe Lake
Warrington Lake
Sadler River
Hayward Lake
Manitoba