George Blanchard Dodge Explained

George Blanchard Dodge (1874-1945) was a civil engineer and a surveyor with the Canadian Department of Crown Lands.[1]

Dodge worked for the British Admiralty conducting surveys in Newfoundland before joining the staff of Surveyor General Édouard-Gaston Deville in Ottawa.[2] He was released from Deville's staff to supervise the first continuing survey of the Pacific Coast of Canada.[2]

Dodge Cove on Digby Island, British Columbia, Canada was named in 1907 by the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, after Dodge who had surveyed Prince Rupert Harbour in 1906 for the Canadian federal government.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dodge, George Blanchard, 1874-1945. BC Archives. Royal BC Museum. 3 March 2016.
  2. Book: Thomson. Don W.. Men and Meridians: The History of Surveying and Mapping in Canada, Volume 2. 1967. Queen's Printer.
  3. Web site: Dodge Cove History 101 . Cheryl K. Ypma . 2008 . Dodge Cove Arts Guild . 20 June 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110710143019/http://dodgecoveartsguild.com/history.html . 10 July 2011 . dead .