Ordnance Department Stone Marker XVII - Burritts Rapids, ON
Posted by: elyob
N 44° 58.869 W 075° 47.735
18T E 437275 N 4981164
Tip-To-Tip Trail, east of Grenville Street
Waymark Code: WM117CX
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 08/30/2019
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The Rideau Canal was constructed between 1826 and 1832. Before construction could begin, the British Ordnance Department (OD) was charged with surveying Crown Lands alongside the canal. Stone survey markers from this period survive in Burritts Rapids.
This stone marker is near the property line in the back yard of 22 Centre Street. The marker is near a mature maple tree. There is a chiseled broad arrow on one vertical face, the mark of the Ordnance Department. An identifying mark is chiseled in the horizontal top face, XVII.