FIRST - Survey Marker Planted - Kingston, Ontario
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N 44° 13.484 W 076° 29.210
18T E 381245 N 4897908
In September 1783, Deputy Surveyor-General John Collins was despatched to Cataraqui to lay out townships for loyalist settlers, and on 27 October 1783, the first survey marker was planted.
Waymark Code: WM14627
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 04/25/2021
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Inscription on a plaque on site:
In September 1783, Deputy Surveyor-General John Collins was despatched to Cataraqui by Governor Haldimand to lay out townships for loyalist settlers. The necessary land was purchased from Mississauga Indians, and on 27 October the first survey marker was planted. By the years end the front concessions of four townwships, stretching from Cataraqui to the Bay of Quinte, had been surveyed. A fifth was laid out the following summer. Collins thus completed the first major survey made under civil authority in what is now Ontario.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 10/27/1783
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