Both triangulation stations were monumented along the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern railway, the Canadian subdivision of the Great Northern Railway which ran from Laurel to Hope, BC in three separate sections. This section, the shortest of the three, ran in Canada from Laurel to Grand Forks, then dipped across the border. The railway reentered Canada at Midway, continuing westward to Molson, WA, where it exited Canada, reentering at Chopaka, WA and continuing on to Hope.
Danville E Base consists of a copper bolt with a cross cut into its top, set in a 10" X 10" granite post set nearly four feet in the ground. It is about 15 metres west of Esouloff Road, 6 metres south of the tracks and <650 metres north of the U.S. border.
This station is accompanied on the granite post by a benchmark, marked U.S.C.B. Survey.
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Danville East Base (triangulation station) (British Columbia, Yale District; C. H. Sinclair, 1904; 1930).—On the right-of-way of the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern branch of the Great Northern Railway about 2 miles E of the railroad station at Danville. The station is on a bank 6M S of S rail of the track, 275M E of road crossing, 900M E of the E switch to Grand Forks and 1,800M E of "Danville W Base".
Station mark: A cross on a copper bolt set in a 10 by 10 by 48 inch dressed granite block, placed 3-4 feet underground. The surface mark is a cross on a copper bolt set in the top of a granite post 10 by 10 by 48 inches, set in concrete to a depth of 3 feet. The top 12 inches of this post are dressed, and the letters "U. S. C. B." are cut in the four corners of the top surface. A bench-mark disk is set in the top of the post at one side of the copper bolt."
From the International Boundary Commission
Report, 1937, Page 382
Name Province NTS map sheet Municipal
Danville East Base British Columbia 82E.008.2.1 - -
Grand Forks
Marker Type
COPPER BOLT
SIT ON R/W OF V.V.& E. BRANCH OF G.N.RLY, ABOUT 2 MILES E'LY FROM RLY. STA. AT DANVILLE, WASH. REPORT - INT. BDY. COMMISSION. PAGES 274 & 382. MKD BY CROSS ON COPPER BOLT SET IN TOP OF 10X10X48 IN. GRANITE POST SET IN CONCRETE OVER UNDERGROUND STATION MARK.
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