Series consists of records created and accumulated in the Surveys and Mapping Branch. The Branch comprises five lower level sub-series: Legal Services Division, Map Compilation and Reproduction Division, Geodetic Survey of Canada, Board of Examiners for Dominion Land Surveyors and Registry subject files.
The series also contains ca. 6,000 aeronautical maps, 1953-1993, and ca. 500 v. of flight information publications, handbooks, Canadian Air Pilot manuals and amendments, etc., 1944-1993.
Indian treaties and surrenders, consisting of 31 plans ranging from No. 2 to 255. The plans are stamped as true or reduced true copies by W.S. Austin, Surveys Branch, Dept. of Indian Affairs, in 1890.
22 flight line map sheets pertaining to operation "Polaris" from Dept. of Mines and Resources file 15236. Map sheets 39 & 49A S1/2, 67NE&NW, 78SW&SE, and 87SE&SW have been itemized and are grouped with annotated portions of map sheets.
ca. 200 000 remote-sensing images of trimetrogon aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Army Air Force Task Force on a number of operations in Canadian territory. The operations included: the Labrador expedition (1931-1935); the St. Lawrence waterway (1941); the United States - Canada boundary (1941); numbered operations 41, 2-1001, 2-2011, 3025 and 4010 (1941-1943); and Polaris (1946-1948). The images are of the Arctic archipelago and the far northern part of the Northwest Territories (Operation Polaris); vast regions of the country and represent all provinces and territories with the exception of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
A select sampling of seven obsolete glass plate negatives in different sizes connected with arerial photography done by the Survey and Mapping Branch across Canada.
Map related to the 35th federal election, October 15, 1993, consisting of a test map showing the membership of the House of Commons on 25 June 1993; English (MCR 196) and French (MCR 196F) map editions; 3 correction plots prepared Oct. 26 to make negatives used in press run -- shows the unoffical counts as tablulated by Elections Canada.
Records from the Map Resource Centre include 226 sectional maps of Canada at the 3 mile to 1 inch scale and approximately 210 gazetteers and other publications.
Canada referendum 1992 maps. The first item is a provisional map that depicts voting results at approximatley 6:00 a.m. EST on October 17, 1992. It was printed and circulated in limited numbers. The second item is a computer print out of the POSTSCRIPT map and was used to print the second provisional verison showing results at approximately 7:00 a.m. EST. The third map is a printed copy of the second provisional map. Insets of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and others.
The Report on a survey of air photographic and map requirements undertaken by the Interdepartmental Committee on Air Surveys, prior to the vertical and tri camera air survey programme of 1946, has 15 appendicies consiting of 11 annotated maps, representing appendicies D,F,G,H,I,J,K,L.M,N, and O; 3 diagrammatic representations of vertical, tri camera or steep oblique coverage and a letter to the Secretary of the Committee from the Dept. of National Defence. The base map used for the 11 cartographic items were either the "Index to the Map Sheets of the National Topographic Series", provided by the Office of Topographic Survey in 1927 and reprinted in 1943, or Map 870A compiled by the GSGS, DND and printed in 1946.
The Report of Reindeer Lake and Churchill River photographic operations undertaken by Topographical survey and Victoria Beach RCAF station from July 18 to August 14, 1924. The purpose of the operation was to experiment with the use of aircraft and aerial photography to assist the Topograhical Survey in mapping large areas in northern Canada. Robert Davidson of the Topographical Survey took part in the project which produced over 1700 aerial photographs.
