Collection search - [Engineering drawings related to geodetic levelling on the St. Lawrence River and the Royal Commission on the Quebec Bridge Inquiry] [technical drawing]

Items 1 and 2 created by R. Steckel, engineer in charge, and H.F. Perley, chief engineer, Dept. of Public Works.

Transferred to Modern Cartography from the Manuscript Division (MG 30 C 60) in 1976 as accession 81202/551 and 81202/552 and subsequently transferred to GCARS in September 1981 as accession 81203/28.

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1. View of Tide Guage as put up for transportation. Geodetic Levelling River St. Lawrence - Water levels, Québec to Montreal and Lachine - R. Stackel Engineer in charge. 1891
2. Sectional Elevation & plan of tide guage in position. 1891 Geodetic Levelling River St. Lawrence - Water levels, Québec to Montreal and Lachine - R. Stackel Engineer in charge. 1891
3. Drawing, 23 of Royal Commission - Quebec Bridge Enquiry. Elevations of the Great Cantilever Bridges including the Quebec Bridge; Blackeville's Island Bridge, New York; and the Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1908

Map available in microfiche format: NMC20041.

Items 1 & 2 related to accession 81202/552 (a map entitled "Geodetic levelling - water levels River St. Lawrence Quebec to Montreal and Lachine", part of the William Charles Henry Wood fonds), call number H1/312/1891/1, which was transferred to the Modern Cartography Section in 1976 from the Manuscript Division (MG30-C60, formerly MG30-D54) along with the drawings in accession 81203/28 (formerly 81202/551).

Items #1 & 2 related to R. Steckel's "Annual report of the Minister of Public Works for the fiscal year 1890-1891. Part II, water levels, River St. Lawrence between Quebec and Montreal, (1893). See Amicus no. 743970.

Item #3 related to drawings and plans documenting the collapse of the Quebec Bridge included in the Royal Commission on the Quebec Bridge Inquiry fonds, accession 78903/63.