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• 1902 or later - first Canadian Chairman of International Waterways Commission.
• November 1905 - resigned from IWC, High Court Justice of Ontario.

K. MacAskill

• 1966 - Electronic Technician - CSS Baffin - Tail of the Bank (16 May to 6 Aug)

A.R. MacCallum

• 1964 - Summer Student from Lawrencetown - CSS Kapuskasing - Chaleur Bay

• 1912 - Hudson Bay survey, MINTO
• 1913 - Lake Ontario survey & Hudson Bay survey, ACADIA
• 1913-15 - Lake Ontario survey.
• 1916 - Lower St. Lawrence River survey.
• 1917 - on staff of Drafting Office (awaiting transfer to Radio Telegraph Service)

D. MacCready

• 1966 - Student Assistant - Rainy Lake survey, Ontario (1 June to 7 Sept) from Ottawa

• 1960 - classification in 1960:  Draftsman 1
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Chart Drafting and Reproduction, Unit 1 A, ( Draftsman 2)

• 1914 - Hudson Bay survey
• November 1914 - accepted a commission in the British Army.

George D.  MacDonald

George joined the CHS on May 23, 1966 immediately after graduating from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology with a diploma in land Surveying Technology.

 He started his career as a junior field hydrographer and like many of his peers he was employed primarily as a Sextant operator.  His knowledge, abilities and excellent work ethic were recognized at an early stage of his career and in 1970 he was Senior Assistant on a Central Region survey.  By 1972 he was Hydrographer in Charge and he remained in an HIC position until 1979 when he assumed the duties of Central Region Hydrographic Development Officer.

 Early in his career, George developed a keen interest in new technology and his duties as Development Officer was a natural fit.  He contributed in a large way to the “automation” and implementation of new technology to the CHS.  He was recognized, not only in the CHS, but also within the International Hydrographic community as a leader in developing automated survey and data processing techniques.  He presented many papers at Hydrographic and Survey related conferences in many parts of the world.

 During his 30 years with the CHS he contributed in a wide variety of activities and to the collection of hydrography at many areas of Central Canada and the Arctic.

 In addition to his many contributions in the fields of technology, he also contributed to the national and international hydrographic community in other ways.  He taught hydrographers in India, he conducted surveys in Senegal, Africa.  He was President of the Canadian Hydrographic Association in 1973 and 1978 to 1980, and was Editor of Lighthouse for editions 37 through 40.

 George assumed the duties of Assistant Regional Director of Central Region in 1989 and remained in that position until 1995 when he accepted a special assignment for the last year of his career with the CHS.

 He retired from CHS on December 2, 1996.

Source: Lighthouse, No. 54, Fall 1996, p. 45.

   1966 - Hydrographer - Rainy Lake survey, Ontario (24 May to 12 Oct)
•  1966/67-Training-Hydro I-
   1967 - Hydrographer - Lake of the Woods, Ont survey
   1968 - Senior Assistant - Lake of the Woods survey, Ont.
   1970 - Senior Assistant - Great Lakes revisory surveys - 4 May to 11 Oct 

• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Electronic Technician, Bedford Institute (Technician 3)
   1964 - 8 Aug - 23 Oct, attached to CSS Kapuskasing - Chaleur Bay
   1966 - CSS Kapuskasing - Gulf of St. Lawrence - (8 July to 18 Oct)

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 5
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Central Region, Field Officer (Technical Officer 6)
   1964 (winter) - Hydrographer, Senior Assistant - CSS Baffin - Aruba and British Virgin Islands survey
   1965 Hydrographer-in-Charge - CSS Cartier - Lake Erie, Long Point Bay to Point Abino
   1966 (Field Program) - Hydrographer-in-Charge, M.V. Brandal - Lake Ontario, Lake Surveillance Program
   1967 Hydrographer in Charge - Lake Surveillance Program.

          Finished his career as Chief of Technical Operations at Canada Centre for Inland Waters. (Obituary)
   died 28 August 2006 at age 80. 

Capt. J. C. MacDonald

• 1923 - Sailing Master, BAYFIELD (II)

G.D. Macdonald

• 1965 - Student Assistant (16 May - 10 Sept) from S.A.I.T. - Trent-Severn Waterway, Ontario
•  1966/67-Training-Hydro I-

• prior to Nov. 1940 - in chart distribution
• 1940 - transferred, listed as Student Draftsman

• 1960 - classification in 1960:  Draftsman 1
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Drafting and Reproduction, Unit 2, Group D (Draftsman Grade 2)

• 1977-Training-Carto I (Class Photo)

S.J. MacDonell

   1967 - Summer student - Shore party #1 - western NS - 17 May to 1 Sept (from EOIT)

• prior to 1867 - wrote Sailing directions for Bay of Fundy.

• 1970 - Hydrographic Assistant (TIRL) 

• 1983 –Strait of Belle Isle survey (FS 4962)

• 1966 - CSS Kapuskasing - Gulf of St. Lawrence (1 Aug to 29 Aug)

• 1939 - Montreal harbour survey
• 1940-41 - St. Lawrence River survey.
• 1941 - Gulf of St. Lawrence surveys (after early June)
• 1942 - Lake St. Peter & Hudson Bay surveys
• 1943 - Conception Bay, Goose Bay & Hudson Strait surveys.
• saw war-time military service
• Dec. 1943 - resigned to join RCAF
• Sept. 1945 - re-appointed to CHS.
• 1945 - Mahone Bay survey.
• 1946 - St. Lawrence River survey
• 1946 - reconnaissance survey Rideau Lakes.
• 1947 - St. Lawrence River (below Montreal) survey
• 1950 - OIC, - CHL Grebe, Chesterfield Inlet, Baker Lake
• 1961 - Headquarters Staff, Engineer (Engineer 3)
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Nautical Geodesy (Engineer 3)

• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Field Officer, Bedford Institute (technical Officer 2)
   1964 - Hydrographer - CSS Maxwell - NS, NB, Que

• 1940 - appointed as Student Draftsman, Victoria Office.
• 1946 - former Student Draftsman, Inside Passage survey.
• 1947 - Queen Charlotte & Smith Sounds surveys

R.J. MacKenzie

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tides and Water Level Section, Tech. Officer 2
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Tides and Water Levels, Processing Compilation (as Technical Officer 3)

H.R. MacKinnon

• 1940 - Northumberland Strait & Botwood surveys

1891 - 1968

  born 24 May 1891 in New Brunswick (1901 census)

• 1913-14 - Lower St. Lawrence River survey.
• 1914 - sent to Lake Superior survey
• 1914-15 – Byng Inlet survey (FS 350)
• 1915-16 - Lower St. Lawrence River survey.
• 1917 - went overseas with Canadian Artillery
• 1918 - commissioned as Lieutenant R.N.R. with the British Admiralty.
• 1919 - returned from military service.
• 1920 - Lake Superior survey
• 1921 - St. Lawrence River estuary survey
• 1923 - Saguenay River survey
• 1924 - Gulf of St. Lawrence survey
• 1925-26 - Mingan Strait survey.
• 1927 - Gulf of St. Lawrence North Shore survey.
• 1928 - Saguenay River survey.
• 1929 - Hudson Bay survey.
• 1930-31 - Officer in Charge of St. John River survey.
• 1932 - writing sailing directions at Headquarters
• 1933 - Officer in Charge of St. John River survey.
• 1934 - writing sailing directions at Headquarters.
• 1935 - Officer in Charge of St. John River survey.
• 1936-37 - Officer in Charge of Charlottetown survey.
• 1938 - Officer in Charge of BOULTON, Toronto, Heron Bay (L. Superior) & Montreal survey
• 1939 - Officer in Charge of Montreal harbour survey
• 1940-41 - Officer in Charge of St. Lawrence River survey.
• 1942-43 - Officer in Charge of Lake St. Peter survey.
• 1944-47 - in charge of Sailing Directions at Headquarters.
                - Superintendent of charts until his retirement in 1956.
• 6 June 1968 - died in his 78^th year

MacKinnon Bank (Lake Superior) 47° 39’ 30"N, 85° 03’ 00"W (possibly)

D.J. Mackinnon

   1967 - taken on strength - compilation unit - Ottawa
   1968 - working level compiler - Ottawa

J. Mackinnon

   1967 - taken on strength - compilation unit - Ottawa
   1968 - working level Compiler - Aids section - Ottawa

F.G. MacLaren (Miss)

• 1961 - Atlantic (maybe Inland) Region, Clerk (Clerk 2).

J.F. MacLean

• 1961 - Atlantic (maybe Inland) Region, Administrative Officer (Clerk 4).

F.R. MacMillan

• 1937 - Transferred from map service to supervise clerical matters at HQ
• 1939 - listed as 'Office-General'
• 1947 - in charge of records and accounts at Headquarters

J.C. MacMillan, C.E.

• Ontario Government Railway
• 1912 - had taken soundings through the ice at Moose Factory

• 1983 –Strait of Belle Isle survey (FS 4962)

Capt. Alex. MacNab

•  born 20 April 1860 in Scotland (1901 census)
• April 1908 - appointed Sailing Master of BAYFIELD (II).
• June 1908 - grounding of BAYFIELD on a known rock at the eastern entrance of Nipigon Bay, blamed for incident and replaced by Capt. J.F. Lunan.

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech. Officer 1

Stephen B. MacPhee

 Steve MacPhee was born in 1939 at French Road, Cape Breton, where his father was a carpenter and farmer. He was educated at Sydney Academy, St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish and Nova Scotia Technical College. After obtaining a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1960, Steve was employed by E.M.I. Cossor Electronics on the design and evaluation of underwater acoustics instrumentation for military applications. During this period, he spent a considerable amount of time on Canadian and American naval ships in various areas of operation.

After a period with Sperry Rand Canada Ltd. from 1964 to 1967, engaged in the design and operational aspects of naval sonar, radar, communications and fire control systems, he joined the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in 1967. While there, he was involved in the design and testing of hydrographic and oceanographic sensors and data acquisition and processing systems. He was also engaged in the development and evaluation of echo sounder digitizers, correlation systems for signal enhancement, and narrow beam echo sounders.

In 1975, he joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service in Ottawa as Manager, Planning and Development. In this capacity, he was responsible for cartographic and hydrographic training and standards, hydrographic planning, nautical geodesy and geoscience mapping and GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans).

Steve MacPhee was appointed Dominion Hydrographer early in the summer of 1979.  Steve MacPhee was appointed, for his second tenure, to the position of Dominion Hydrographer as of January 3, 1995.  He had spent the previous seven years at Bedford Institute where he had been the Regional Director, Science for the Scotia-Fundy Region of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.  He retired from the Public Service in December 1997.

He met Judy Cole, a Halifax schoolteacher, at a Boat Club dance and they were married in 1966. They have five children: Timothy (b.1968), Michael (b.1969), Erika (b.1972), Elizabeth (b.1979) and Rebecca (b.1981), and lived east of Kemptville.

Sources: 
Lighthouse, Nov. 1979, p. 30.
The Canadian Surveyor, June 1980, p. 179-180.
The Canadian Surveyor, December 1982, p. 174-5.
The Canadian Surveyor, Spring 1986, p. 52.
Lighthouse, Fall 1994, p. 37.

Capt. John MacPherson

• 1911 - Sailing Master, icebreaker MINTO, Hudson Bay survey.

M.S. Madden

• spring 1931 - hired as Junior Hydrographer (Grade I).
• 1931 - Hudson Bay survey.
• 1932-35 - North Shore of Gulf of St. Lawrence survey.
• 1936-37 - tidal-current survey, Lower St. Lawrence River.
• 1940 - transferred to Dept. of National Defence for war duty at Lindsay.

Robert J. Mahaffy

ROBERT MAHAFFY - EMPLOYEE WORK HISTORY

BIRTH DATE: 28-Nov-44
MARITAL STATUS: Divorced
JOINED: 16-Jul-64
TRANSFER TO CHS Oct 15 1966
EDUCATION: Grade 12 - Ontario
Hydrography I - 1966 - 1967
Hydrography Il - 1971
Focal HAAPS - 1975
French - 1975
Dynamics of Supervision Course -1981


ROBERT MAHAFFY - EMPLOYEE WORK HISTORY 

WORK YEAR  WORK ASSIGNMENT                                             HIC, MANAGER/SUPERVISOR      VESSEL

Jul 64 - Oct 66  Topo Surveys of Canada - draftsman
Oct 66 - Mar 67 Hydrography I                                                             S. van Dyck                                 CSS BAFFIN
1967                 Trent Severn Survey                                                      I. Robichaud
1968                 P.C.S.P.                                                                       G. Yeaton and N. Anderson
1969                 Lower St. Lawrence                                                      I. Robichaud
1970                 Lake of Two Mountains                                                Ab Rogers
Sep '70 - Oct -'70Thousand Islands                                                        R. Courtnage
Mar '71 - May '71 P.C.S.P.                                                                   Gerry Wade
May 71 - Jun 71 Hydrography ll                                                             S. van Dyck
Jul '71 - Aug '71 Lower St. Lawrence River                                           Bruce Wright
Sep '71 - Mar '72 Lake of the Woods                                                   Ed Thompson
Apr '72 - Aug '72 HDC - Chart Distribution                                          Ab Rogers
Sep '72 - Dec '72 Lake of the Woods                                                   Vern Crowley
1973                 James Bay Survey                                                        Robert Marshall
May - Jul 1974  Lake Huron Survey                                                      F. L. DeGrasse                             CSS LIMNOS
Aug '74 - Dec '74 Lower St. Lawrence River                                        Ed Thompson
1975                 Lower St. Lawrence River, Sr Asst                              Reg Lewis
Apr '76 - Jun '76 P.C.S.P.                                                                    Ed Thompson
Jul '76 - Dec '76 Rotation - Cartography                                               J. Elliott
1977                 HIC - Lake Huron Limnogeology                                Earl Brown
1978                 HIC - Georgian Bay Limnogeology                              Earl Brown
1979                 St. Lawrence River, Sr. Asst.                                       Reg Lewis
1980                 St. Lawrence River, Sr. Asst.                                       Reg Lewis
Apr '81 - Mar '82 Rotation - Cartography                                             Boyd Thorson
Apr '82 - Apr '83 Hudson Bay Coastal, Sr. Asst.                                   Jack Wilson           CCGS SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER
1983                 HIC - Revisory Survey                                                 Bruce Wright
1984                 HIC - Revisory Survey                                                 Bruce Wright
1985                 Rotation - Tides                                                           Dennis St. Jacques
1986                 St. Lawrence River, Sr. Asst.                                       Jack Wilson
1987                 Harbours Survey, Georgian Bay                                   Paul Davies
1988                 Bay of Quinte/Napanee River                                       Paul Davies
1989                 HIC - Revisory Survey                                                George Macdonald
Apr '90 - Aug '90 Field Sheet Q.C.                                                      George Macdonald
Sept '90 - March 'Hudson Bay Coastal, Sr. Asst.                                  Ed Thompson                                     CSS BAFFIN
1991                 Georgian Bay Survey Sr. Asst.                                     Paul Davies
1992                 Georgian Bay Survey                                                   Paul Davies
1993                 Lake Huron Survey                                                     John Medendorp
1994                 Lake Huron Survey                                                     John Medendorp
1995                 Rankin Inlet Survey, Hudson Bay                                Paul Davies                                         CSS HUDSON
1996                 Hudson Bay Survey                                                    Paul Davies                                         CCGS HUDSON
1997                 Hudson Bay Survey                                                    Paul Davies                                         CCGS HUDSON
May '98 - Jun '98 Georgian Bay Survey                                               John Medendorp                                 CCGS GRIFFON
Jul '98 - Dec '98 Hudson Bay Survey                                                   Jon Biggar                                           CCGS GRIFFON
1999                 Georgian Bay Survey                                                  John Medendorp                                 CCGS GRIFFON
Jan 00 - Jun 00 Georgian Bay Survey                                                  John Medendorp                                 CCGS GRIFFON
Jul '00 - Apr '01 Western Arctic                                                         Andrew Leyzack                CCGS SIR WILFRID LAURIER
May '01 - Jul '01 Georgian Bay Survey                                                John Medendorp                                 CCGS GRIFFON
Aug '01 - Dec '01 Western Arctic                                                        Jon Biggar                                           GGGS NAHIDIK
2002                 Lake Timiskaming Survey                                           John Medendorp
2003                 Eastern Arctic Survey                                                Tim Janzen                                            GGGS LARSON
2004 - Mar '05 Eastern Arctic Survey                                                Tim Janzen                                            CCGS LARSON
Arp 05 - Dec 05 ENC                                                                       Brian Power
Jan 06 - Dec 06 ENC                                                                        Brian Power
Jan 07 - Dec 07 ENC                                                                        B. Power and C Fisher

• 1966/67-Training-Hydro I (Class Photo)
   1967 - Hydrographer - Trent Severn Waterway (Ont)

M.J.L. Major

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Asst. Technician 1
• April 1963 - Chart Correction (Assistant Technician 2)

K.T. Maloney

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 1

Capt. Manby

• 1808 – surveyd Port Manvers, Labrador (chart BA1422)

• 1851 – OIC of HMS DAPHNE, surveyed Beaver Harbour, BC

• surveyed Newfoundland in 19^th Century
•Marechal Island (chart 4518) possibly named after him

Dr. Marcellinus, M.D.

• 1910 - icebreaker STANLEY, Hudson Bay survey

D. Marcotte

• May-July, 1910 - Chief Engineer, CARTIER

Capt. A.R. Markham, R.N.

• 1884 - surveys in Hudson Bay and Churchill

D.W. Marshall

• 1967 - Student Assistant - Murray Trent Canals survey, Ont (9 May to 13 Sept)

H.J. Marshall

   1970 - Great Lakes revisory surveys - 10 May to 2 Sept

Robert A. Marshall

1936 - 

Born in Scotland in 1936, Bob Marshall came to Canada in 1952. He served on Canadian Merchant Ships before joining the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1960. He successfully completed the Hydrography I and II courses and received a Commission as A Canada Lands Surveyor in 1981. In 1983 he transferred to Ship Division and served as Regional Marine Superintendent – Central and Arctic Region in Burlington until retirement in 1995.

Assignments with the Canadian Hydrographic Service Central Region included:

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 1
• 1960 - 64 Assistant Hydrographer on surveys in Hudson Bay, Baffin Island, Labrador, Newfoundland, MacKenzie River, C.S.S. ACADIA, Charter Vessels
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Central Region, Field Officer (as Technical Officer 2)
• 1965 Tides and Water Levels
•  1966 Senior Assistant - Rainy Lake Survey
• 1967 Sub-party Chief - Lake Ontario Limnology - M. V. THERON
• 1968 Hydrographer-in-Charge - Revisory Survey - Lake Ontario (1968)
   1969 Hydrographer in Charge - CHL Verity - Revisory Survey - Kingston (Ont) to Quebec City (PQ)
• 1970 Field Sheet Checking
•  1971 H.I.C. Georgian Bay Survey
•  1972 H.I.C. Lower St. Lawrence Survey
• 1973 H.I.C. James Bay Survey - C.C.G.S. NARWHAL
• 1974 H.I.C. St. Lawrence River - Current Survey - C.S.S. BAYFIELD
• 1975 Office Assignments
• 1976 H.I.C. Senegal Offshore Survey - C.S.S. BAFFIN
•   H.I.C. Hudson Bay Offshore Survey - C.C.G.S. NARWHAL
• 1977-78 Acting Assistant Regional Hydrographer, Atlantic Region - April 1977 to June 1978. Central Region - July 1978 - September 1978
• 1979 H.I.C. Kingston Survey
• 1980 H.I.C. North Channel Survey
• 1981 Scientific Authority Lake Manitoba Contract Survey; Field Sheet Checking
• 1982 Scientific Authority Lake Manitoba Contract Survey; H.I.C. Rideau Sweep Survey

Miss Helen Martell

• 1964 – joined CHS, Compilation Section

Colin H. Martin

1912 - 1999

Colin H. Martin, assistant dominion hydrographer, retired on December 27, 1973, from the Canadian Hydrographic Service at the age of 61.

He was born at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1912. Shortly after, his parents moved to Stony Mountain, Manitoba, where he received his primary school education. His ancestors on his father's side were among the early settlers of Nova Scotia having come to Annapolis Royal from France in the year 1638. His mother's parents came from Iceland to Selkirk in the late 1800s.

Colin graduated from the University of Manitoba in civil engineering in 1934. During his summer semesters commencing in 1930, he worked on a geological survey, carried out work with a provincial land surveyor at Selkirk, drew the initial copyright plans for the Selkirk chimney, became assistant engineer with Anthes Foundry at Winnipeg, then was assayer at Berens River Mines and from there became engineer for three Newmont Corporation mines in the Geraldton, Ontario, area. He resigned from this position in July 1938 and joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service at Ottawa where he has been continually employed until his retirement.

His hydrographic field assignments have been in many areas of Canada including Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie River, Lake Winnipeg, the Great Lakes, the Ottawa River and a variety of locations along Canada's eastern seaboard including lake Melville and Battle Harbour in Labrador and the coastal waters of Newfoundland.

In 1944, he conducted the initial bathymetric, temperature and water current investigation, on a high priority and secret basis, that culminated in the building of the atomic plant Chalk River.

He charted many strategic areas on Canada's eastern seaboard, and the important junction and dangerous area of Hardisty Island on Great Slave Lake known then as the graveyard for Great Slave Lake shipping. From 1950 until 1955, he was officer-in-charge of three east coast ships, but primarily the famous CSS Acadia, now decommissioned and part of the Museum of the Atlantic, in Halifax.

In 1956, he was promoted to superintendent of charts and additionally was designated as assistant dominion hydrographer in 1960. From 1956 to 1968, he directed the expansion of Canada's chart coverage from 600 to 1000 charts and has overseen the increase in annual distribution services of some 100,000 charts to the present [1974] 500,000. He also established a distribution agency system, national and international, of 300 dealers including an annual inspection system.

He successfully defended the Canadian Hydrographic Service charts and surveys in Canada's most major marine litigation in history, involving two days of grueling cross examination by Canada's leading marine lawyers. The case involved a ship collision between the German freighter Transatlantic and the Dutch freighter Hermes in April 1965 in Lake St. Peter area of the St. Lawrence River. The damages involved are between five and thirteen million dollars. The case went to the Supreme Court of Canada.

He has played a leading role in international aspect of hydrography, in modernizing Canada's navigational charts, and developing small craft, fishery, bathymetric, metric and other charts. He also laid the foundation for the present cartographic development program.

He has always been active in athletics, and in fact was one of Ottawa most outstanding curlers in the 1960s, a sport he started playing at the age of 12.

Colin H. Martin died August 20, 1999 in Ottawa, predeceased by his wife, Dorothy, and survived by his daughter Jo-Ann Mitchell of Chester, N.S., and grandchildren, and his sister, Eileen, who also worked for CHS for many years.

Sources:  The Canadian Surveyor, March 1974, p. 97.

            Geomatica, Vol. 53, No. 4, 1999, p. 472.

• 1930 - Playgreen Lake survey.
• 1933--34 - seasonally employed as 'seaman' rating but doing hydrography
• 1935 - seasonal assistant Lake Winnipeg survey.
• 1938 - Cape Breton & Northumberland Strait survey (temporarily)
• 1938 - hired permanently
• 1939 - NE arm of Gulf of St. Lawrence
• 1940 - Port Hebert survey
• 1941 - Bay of Fundy surveys.
• 1942-43 - Conception Bay survey.
• 1944 - confidential surveys at Parry Sound and Deep River for NRC
• 1945-46 - MacKenzie River survey.
• 1947 - Great Slave Lake & Great Bear Lake survey
• 1950 - Officer in Charge of CARTIER (II)
• 1950 - replaced S.R. Titus as Officer in Charge of ACADIA
• 1950 - surveyed Bell Island, Conception Bay, Nfld. (chart 4566)
• 1950 - Officer in Charge of Battle Harbour & C. St. Charles, Lab. survey (chart 4713, 4714)
• 1951 - Officer in Charge of St. Lewis Sound (Lab.) survey (FS 2274)
• 1951-52 - surveyed Conception & Trinity Bays (chart 4563, 4572)
• 1952 - Officer in Charge of Lake Melville survey (chart 4725)
• 1952-53 - Officer in Charge of ACADIA, Cape Spear, Nfld.
• 1952-53 - surveyed approaches to St. John's, Nfld (chart 4574)
• 1953-54 - Officer in Charge of ACADIA surveyed Outer Bonavista Bay (chart 4562, 4569)
• 1955 - Officer in Charge of FORT FRANCES (replaced G.E. Lowe as OIC in August) surveyed Trinity Bay, Nfld. (chart 4571, 4577)
• 1961 - Headquarters Staff, Engineer (Engineer 7) 
  1962 - Superintendent of Charts 
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Superintendent of Charts (Engineer 7)
• 20 August, 1999 – died in Ottawa

• April 1943 - appointed as student draftsman at Headquarters.
• 1947 - listed as Student Draftsman in chart drafting section
• 1960 - classification in 1960:  Draftsman 2
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Drafting and Reproduction, Unit 2, Group E (Draftsman Grade 3)

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 4
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Central Region, Field Officer (Technical Officer 4)
   1964 - Hydrographer - assisted in Halifax Harbour survey
   1965 - Hydrographer - CSS Baffin (Shore Party) - south shore of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
   1965 - October 4 - resigned from Service

• 1964 – joined CHS, Drafting Section
   1967/68 - working level draftsman - Ottawa

• 1872-89 - As a Staff Cdr., survey of S Nfld. - under Maxwell (chart BA 2141, 2142)
• 1873 - survey of C. St. Charles-Sandwich Bay, Lab. (chart BA 263)
• 1873 – survey of Curlew Harbour – under Maxwell (chart BA251)
• 1873-75 survey of Sandwich Bay to Nain – under Maxwell (chart B!375)
• 1873-76 – survey of Boulter Rock to Domino Run – under Maxwell (chart BA112)
• 1874 – survey of Port Charlotte, Mecklenburg & Sophia Hbrs – under Maxwell (BA 133)
• 1874 - survey of Domino Run – under Maxwell (chart BA226)
• 1874 - survey of Occasional Harbour – under Maxwell (chart BA225)
• 1874 – surveyed Long Harbour, Placentia Bay, under Maxwell (chart BA3266)
• 1875 – survey of Entrance to Hamilton Inlet – under Maxwell (chart BA222)

• 1904 - came from Public Works upon amalgamation.
• 1904 - Lake St. Francis survey.

• 1905 - St. Lawrence River survey.

Capt. Howie Matheson

• 1964 – Captain, Wm.J. STEWART

P.M. Mathews

• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Chart Revision Standards and Names (Map Compiler and Computer 3)

• 1946 - appointed as Student Draftsman, Headquarters
• 1947 - listed as Student Draftsman in chart drafting section
• 1960 - classification in 1960:  Draftsman 3
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Drafting and Reproduction, Unit 2, Group C (Draftsman Grade 3)

• January 1923-27 - in Automated Gauges section.
• 1928-47 - in Precise Water Levels division.

• 1862-71 – (Nav. Lt.) surveyed C. Bonavista to Bay Bulls, Nfld. – under Kerr (chart BA296)
• 1866 – surveyed Carbonear to Brigus Bay – under Kerr (chart BA297)
• 1869-71 – survey of Gander Bay to C. Bonavista, under Kerr (chart BA293)
• 1872-90 - Officer in Charge of H.M. Newfoundland survey.
• 1872 - OIC (Lt.) of survey of Burgeo Islands (chart 4637)
• 1872-85 - survey of S Nfld. (chart BA 2141, 2142)
• 1873 - (Nav. Lt.) survey of C. St. Charles-Sandwich Bay, Lab. (chart BA 263)
• 1873 - Surveyed Port Hood, N.S.
• 1873 – survey of C. Greep to C. Porcupine, Curlew Harbour (chart BA251)
• 1873-75 survey of Sandwich Bay to Nain (chart B!375)
• 1873-76 – survey of Boulter Rock to Domino Run (chart BA112)
• 1874 – survey of Port Charlotte, Mecklenburg & Sophia Hbrs (chart BA133)
• 1874 - survey of Domino Run (chart BA226)
• 1874 - survey of Occasional Harbour, Indian Tickles (chart BA225)
• 1874 – As a Nav. Lt., surveyed Long Harbour, Palcentia Bay (chart BA3266)
• 1874 - surveyed Beaujeu Channel & Bank.
• 1874-78 – surveyed Placentia to Burin Harbour, Nfld. (chart BA290)
• 1874-80 – surveyed St. Lewis Sound & Inlet, Labrador (chart BA133)
• 1875 – As a Staff Cdr., survey of Entrance to Hamilton Inlet (chart BA222)
• 1875 – surveyed Holton Harbour, Lab. (chart BA222)
• 1875 – surveyed Souther Harbour, La Manche, Nfld. (chart BA290)
• 1876 - surveyed Mortier Bay.
• 1877-81 - survey C. St. John-Toulinguet (chart BA 285)
• 1879 – surveyed Virgin Rocks (chart BA2666)
• 1879 – As a Cdr., surveyed Little Bay Islands to League Rocks, Notre Dame Bay (chart BA3091)
• 1880 - surveyed Pictou Harbour, N.S.
• 1880 – surveyed Caribou Channel & Assizes Harbour, Lab. (chart BA133)
• 1881 - survey Fortune Hbr (Notre Dame Bay) (chart BA 285)
• 1882 – OIC of survey of Femme Bay & Harbour Breton, Nfld. (chart BA292)
• 1882 – surveyed Crapaud Road (Chart BA2034)
• 1882-83 - OIC of survey of Fortune Bay, Nfld. (chart 4607, 4608, 4609)
• 1882-85 - surveyed Burin Hbr to Devil Bay (chart BA893)
• Feb. 1883 - instructed by the Hydrographer of the Navy to go from Charlottetown to Ottawa to meet the Minister of Marine and Fisheries about the conduct of the survey to be undertaken in Lakes Superior and Huron.
• 1883 - OIC of survey of Mercer Cove, Gaultois & Picaire Harbours (chart BA292, 4609)
• 1884-5 - OIC of survey of Bonne Bay, Great Jervis Harbour (chart BA292, 4609)
• 1885 - surveyed Miramichi Bay, Shediac Bay & Harbour
• 1885 – surveyed Shediac (chart BA1941)
• 1885-88 – surveyed Goose I to Quebec, St. Lawrence (chart BA315)
• 1885-89 - surveyed River St. Lawrence between Quebec and River Ouelle, made a plan of the channel opposite Hare Island.
• 1886-87 – surveyed Orignaux Pt. To Goose I, St. Lawrence  (chart BA314)
• 1887 - resurveyed Quebec Harbour.
• 1887-89 – surveyed South Channel Saguenay to Orignaux Pt. St. Lawrence (chart BA313)
• 1889 - resurveyed Halifax Harbour. (chart BA311, BA2320)
• 1889 - OIC of survey of Wreck Cove (s. coast of Nfld.) (chart 4638)
• 1889 - started survey of Bradore Bay (Str. of Belle Isle)
• 1890 - OIC of survey of Garia & Le Moine Bays (s. coast of Nfld.) (chart 4639)
• 1890-91 - OIC of survey of C. Ray to Garia Bay (chart BA 2143)
• Maxwell, N.B. (unincorporated area) 45º 54’ 00”N, 67º 42’ 00”W possibly named after him.
• Maxwell Point, Manitoulin 45º 58’ 00”N, 81º 34’ 00”W possibly named after him.
• Maxwell Rock, Parry Sound 45º 06’ 00”N, 80º 08’ 00”W possibly named after him.
• Maxwell Shoal, Stormont 44º 59’ 00”N, 74º 56’ 00”W possibly named after him

• 1928 - Saguenay River survey.
• 1928 - resigned before end of fiscal year.

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Asst Tech 3 • 1963 (CHS org chart)- in charge of Chart Correction Section. (Assistant Technician 3)
• 1964 – transferred to Dept. of Transport

Lt. R.C. Mayne, R.N.

• 1858-62 – surveyed Trail I to Cadboro Head, B.C., under Richards (chart BA577)
• 1860 – surveyed Strait of Georgia, under Richards (chart BA579)
• Mayne Island, B.C. One of the Gulf Islands, east of Saltspring Island, was named about 1859 by Capt. George Richards, after Lt. (later Rear-Admiral) Richard Charles Mayne (died 1892), who served on Richards’ survey vessels, 1857-61. [Rayburn] 

J. McAlister

• 1967 - Student Assistant - Georgian Bay survey, Ont - June 1 to Aug 31 9from Saskatoon

Joe F. McCarthy

Central Region [CHS] regrets to announce the untimely death by cancer of former Central Region hydrographer, Joe McCarthy.  Joe died at age 57, at McMaster Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, September 11, 1996.  Many hydrographers, especially of the boom time 1960 to 1970 era, will remember Joe for his aggressive personality, dynamic drive and colourful social agenda both off and on the playing surface of many surveys.  Joe served on surveys on the Lower St. Lawrence River with Adam Kerr or Bruce Wright (Tadoussac, Rivière-du-Loup, St. Jean Port Joli), on the Georgian Bay survey of 1966 with Earl Brown, on the Lake of the Woods survey 1967, and on several Arctic surveys including James Bay, Hudson Bay and Chesterfield Inlet.  He was also on a noteworthy CSS Hudson Greenland oceanographic program, and on the CSS Baffin Caribbean training cruise of 1967.  Joe remained with the CHS hydrographic until the latter part of the seventies, when he married and broke ranks to become a very successful operator/owner of three Dairy Queen stores.

 Source: Lighthouse, No. 54, Fall 1996, p. 50.

• 1965/66-Training-Hydro I (CHS Class Photo)
   1966 - Hydrographer - Entrance to Georgian Bay, shore party
   1967 - Hydrographer - Lake of the Woods, Ont. survey (July 25 to Oct 23)
   1968 - Hydrographer - Georgian Bay survey, Ont.
   1968 - Hydrographer - Trent-Severn Survey, Ont. (15 Oct to 22 Oct)
   1969 - Hydrographer - Lower St. Lawrence Survey (survey control) 1 Apr to 27 Sept
   1970 - Senior Hydtrogapher- Lower St. Lawrence Survey-Chief of sub-party - 13 Apr - 3 Nov

D.H. McCauley

• 1961 - Chart Production, Clerk (Clerk 1)
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Chart Distribution (Clerk 4)

• 1947 - appointed as Student Assistant
• 1947 - Halifax survey.
• 1947-March 1948 - loaned to Tidal section

J.E. (Earl) McCloskey

• 1961 - Headquarters Staff, Supervising Clerk (Supervising Clerk).

• 1966

C.D. (may be K.) McCooeye

• 1961 - Chart Production, Storeman Helper (Stores Assistant 1)
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Chart Distribution (Storeman 1)

1939-

• Sept-1957 Joined Canadian Hydrographic Service
• Sept 1957- Oct 1964- Nautical Chart Compiler, New Charts Ottawa
• 1960 - classification in 1960: Map Compiler and Computer 2
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Compilation Services & Training (Map Compiler and Computer 3)
• Oct 1964- Feb 1972 Assistant Quality Control Officer Ottawa
• Feb 1972-June 1977 Chart Production, Unit Supervisor Ottawa
• June 1977-78,1980-81 Acting Chief, Chart Production, Atlantic Region Dartmouth
• June 1978-79, 1981-90 Chart Production Unit Supervisor Dartmouth
• Sept 1990- March 1994 Hydrographic Data Validation officer Dartmouth

Autobiography

I was born and educated in Ontario and trained as a cartographer by the CHS.

From 1957 to 1964, I compiled several new charts in the New Charts section.

From 1964 to 1972, I was promoted to assistant Quality Control Officer

In 1972, I was promoted to a unit supervisor in the chart revision section where new editions were compiled and a maintenance program conducted for charts within the Atlantic Region. In 1977 I was appointed to interim production chief for the first marine cartographic presence in the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth NS, the start of a three- year decentralization program,1977-79. I also was the acting chief of production during 1980-81. During this period the first regional cartographic contracts were awarded to private firms.

1981-90, I was a Chart Production Unit Supervisor and a Contract Monitor on several cartographic contracts.

I was assigned as a data validation officer from 1990-1994

Throughout my career I participated on survey duties as listed next.

• 1960-Moose River, Moosonee Ont.
• 1973- revisory survey of 69 charts on the northeast coast of Newfoundland.
• 1989-90 after completion of Basic Hydrography course in 1989,assisted on sweep vessel, FCG Smith, surveys in PEI and NS; and ship based navigational surveys, Lauzier and Baffin, in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland

During my career I was admitted to the Ontario Institute of Chartered Cartographers(CC) in 1967 and was active in the Ontario Institute of Chartered Cartographers organization both as a member of the Board of Directors, and as Secretary for the Institute in mid 1970s.

I retired from CHS in 1994 and I am presently employed as a bus operator for the Halifax Regional Municipality, Transit Services.

W. McCree

• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Tides and Water Levels, Data Collection, Field Officer (as Technician 1)

Thomas Duncan Wyness McCulloch

1925-

Tom McCulloch was the director general (Ocean Science and Surveys) of the Central Region, CHS, situated at the Bayfield Laboratories for Marine Science & Surveys in Burlington, Ontario.

He was born in Greenock, Scotland and obtained his elementary and high school education in Greenock. He served in the Merchant Navy from 1941 to 1945 during World War II, serving in the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. He remained with the Merchant Navy on the conclusion of hostilities, and served as navigating and chief officer on merchant ships until 1952. He joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1953 as a hydrographer in Victoria, B.C. From then until 1967, he was a hydrographer and ships master on the Pacific coast and Western Arctic. During this period, he became hydrographer-in-charge, running survey parties in B.C. and Western Arctic waters, including work on the USCA Storis in support of the resupply of the Western DEW Line stations.

From 1960 to 1965, he became increasingly responsible for all hydrographic surveys in the Western Arctic, but at the same time managed to obtain first-class diploma in administrative management from the University of British Columbia.

He attended the senior survey officers course in Ottawa during the winter of 1964-65. During his years at Victoria, he initiated the formation of a Hydrographic Development Section in the Pacific Region. In 1967, he developed a brief on the education and training of hydrographers, which became an essential part of the framework of the CHS policy. He served as acting regional hydrographer during the absences of Mr. Young on matters of national importance and took over the duties of regional hydrographer of the Central Region in Ottawa in 1968, moving to Burlington when the region was relocated there in 1970.

Sources: The Canadian Surveyor, December 1973, p. 375.
The Canadian Surveyor, Annual Report 1975, p. 363.
The Canadian Surveyor, December 1977, p. 372.
The Canadian Surveyor, December 1982, p. 180-181.

• 1958 - on charge of Western Arctic surveys
   1961 - Officer in Charge - RCMP Spalding - Western Arctic
• 1963 - Officer in Charge of RICHARDSON, Tuktoyaktuk - Western Arctic
   1964 - OIC, RICHARDSON - Pelly Island to Cape Parry, Western Arctic
   1966 - Field assignment, Pacific Region - Wm. J. Stewart, April 18 to May 7
   1966 - Staff assignment, Pacific Region - Education 
   1967 - Officer in Charge - CSS Richardson - West Coast revisory and western Arctic surveys

Lloyd Charles McDonald (or MacDonald)

•  29 October 1921 – born
• 1939 - listed as clerical assistant at Headquarters in Chart Distribution.
• 5 December 1939 – student draftsman
• 1941 - left to join the RCAF.
• 4 Dec. 1941 – 29 April 1946 – joined Navy
• saw war-time military service
• 1 May 1946 – returned to CHS
• 1957 – transferred to Personnel

R.R. McGee

   1966 - Assistant Hydrographer - Trent Severn Waterway Survey,Ont (6 Sept to 7 Oct) 
• 1966/67-Training-Hydro I (Class Photo)
   1967 - Hydrographer - Ottawa River, Chats dam to Bryson dam (1 Apr to 28 July)
   1967 - Struck off strength

W.R. McGee

• born 31 July 1884 in Ontario (1901 census)
• 1905 - appointed as secretary to Mr. Stewart (ship's clerk' in summer).
• 1906 - clerical assistant to Mr. Stewart.
• 1907-08 - Lower St. Lawrence survey.
• end of the field season 1908 - resigned. 

Capt. Henry J. McGough

• 1907 - appointed Sailing Master of LA CANADIENNE, at end of field season.
• 1908 - Sailing Master LA CANADIENNE, Lower St. Lawrence survey
• 1910-15 - first Sailing Master of CARTIER
• 1919-20 - Sailing Master of CARTIER

• born 7 April 1860 in Quebec (1901 census)
• 1904 - came from Public Works upon amalgamation.
• 1904-06 - St. Lawrence R. survey.
• 1907 - astronomic and magnetic observations, Montreal to Cornwall.
• 1908-09 - Officer in Charge of Cumberland Basin (Bay of Fundy) survey.
• 1909 - Officer in Charge of Tatamagouche survey
• 1910-11 - Officer in Charge of Lake St. Francis survey.
• 1911 - Officer in Charge of ERIK, resupply of Hudson Bay survey.
• 1912 - in charge of small survey St. Lawrence R. above Montreal, YINKIN
• 1914-16 - "Assistant Hydrographer" (routine administrative matters)
• 1917 - Current surveys St. Lawrence R.
• 1918 - listed as general assistant to Mr. Stewart.
• 1922-28 - 'Assistant Hydrographer', in charge of Chart Distribution.
• October 1931 - retired.
• McGreevy Harbour (Lake Superior) (48° 40’N, 87° 00’W)

Captain Alexander Murray McGregor

(1828 - 1903+)

• born 22 September 1824 in Ontario (1901 census)
• 1882 – captain of the tug FRANCIS SMITH
• 1882 - was one of the first to sight wreckage of the ASIA,
• 1882 - lost a son in the ASIA sinking,
• 1884-1902 - Sailing Master and Pilot BAYFIELD (I).
• Alexander Passage (46° 38'N, 80° 34'W), McGregor Bank ( 45° 54'N, 81° 51'W), McGregor Bay (46° 05'N, 81° 40'W), McGregor Bay (46° 18'N, 84° 04'W), McGregor Island (46° 05'N, 81° 36'W), McGregor Rock (45° 31'N, 80° 24'W), Murray Point (45° 24'N, 80° 05'W), Murray Rocks (45° 52'N, 80° 48'W) named after him.
•  Captain McGregor was captain of the 181 foot palace steamer (not a tug) Frances Smith - a side-wheeler out of Owen Sound. He replaced William Tate Robertson who took 2 years off to go to Manitoba.         (email from Scott Cameron, 3 June 05)

H.D. McGuirl (Miss)

• 1961 - Headquarters Staff, Clerk (Clerk 3).

• 1964 - Hydrographer in Charge ,Wm.J. STEWART, Burrard Inlet, Dixon Entrance, Queen Charlotte Isl., Hecate Str., Juan de Fuca Str.
   1965 - HIC - Marabell - Ballenas Isl range, Saturna Isl, Granby Bay/Alice Arm, Trial Isl, Quatsino Sd.
   1966 - Staff assignment, Pacific Region - On rotation from field work
   1967 - Senior Assistant (TO 6) - Css Wm J Stewart - BC Coast (17 April to 25 Aug)
   1967 - Hydrographer - Western Arctic survey  (2 Sept to 23 Sept)
• 1968 - Hydrographer in Charge, RICHARDSON, Western Arctic, Sachs Harbour (28 May to 17 Sept)
   1969 - Hydrographer in Charge - Richardson, western Arctic (off Tuktoyaktuk, Darnley Bay, Cape Parry), 
            (May 29 to Sept 12)
   1973 - Hydrographer in Charge, Wm J. Stewart, Howe Sd, Strait of Georgia, Malaspina Strait

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 1
•  April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Central Region, Field Officer (as Technical Officer 1)
   1964 - Hydrographer - CSL Cygnet - Ottawa River survey
   1965 - Hydrographer - Rainy Lake Survey - Ontario
   1966 - Staff assignment, Central Region - On rotation from field work

• B.Sc.
• 1894 - assistant to Dr. W. Bell Dawson, on current work.

N. McKenzie

• 1947 - Chief Engineer, Wm.J. STEWART

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Engineer 1
• 1961 – Survey at Byng Inlet

• 1913 - water level studies, St. Lawrence River.

Hon. A.W. McLelan

• 1882-84 - Minister of Marine and Fisheries
• McLelan Strait (near Cape Chidley) named after him

Bruce McLellan

• 1946 - Student Assistant on Strait of Canso survey
• [same person as T.B. McLellan?]

• 1945 - appointed as 'Seaman Technical'
• 1945-47 - Northumberland Strait survey.
• 1946-47 - surveyed Boughton Harbour & Cardigan Bay, PEI (chart 4421, 4422)

Earl R. McManus

Information from E. McManus (2008):

   1944 - Seaman - Wm J, Stewart - On board when ship struck Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows 11 June 1944
   1944 - Seaman - Pender - Seymour Narrows survey after transfer from Wm J Stewart
   1945 - Quartermaster - Wm J Stewart 
   1946 - Senior quartermaster - Wm J Stewart

P. McMillan

   1963 - Joined CHS
   1967 - working level compiler - Ottawa

S.J. McMullin

• 1968 – Casual Employee - Shore party - Ship Harb. to Sheet Harb. eastern NS - 2 July to 20 Sept

Capt Alex McNab

   1908 Sailing Master on the Bayfield (when she grounded on McGarvey Shoal)

Capt. William J.  McQuade

• born 18 November 1858 in Ontario (1901 census)
• 1910-16 - Sailing Master, BAYFIELD (II)
• 1917 - Lake Superior survey (shore party)

• 1930-36 - west coast Vancouver Island survey.
• 1937 - Rivers Inlet survey.
• spring 1938 – resigned

• 1995 – Officer in Charge of survey of Goderich Harbour
   2007 - Retired from active service, Central Region - (from 2007 Lighthouse)

• 1960 - classification in 1960: St. Draftsman
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Chart Drafting and Reproduction, Unit 1 A, (Draftsman 1)

R.M. Meredith

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 4

• 1927 - graduated from engineering form St. Mary’s College, Halifax
• 1930 – graduated in Engineering from Nova Scotia Technical College
• 1930 - Upper St. Lawrence survey.
• 1931 - Lake Winnipeg/Playgreen Lake survey.
• 1932 - writing sailing directions at Headquarters
• 1933 - shore party, Hudson Strait.
• winter 1933 - loaned to Tidal section.
• 1934 - Magdalen Islands survey
• 1935 - Tidal-current surveys, Lower St. Lawrence River
1937-38 – seriously ill for 1 ½ years
• 1938 - observed tidal streams in Main à Dieu Passage.
• 1939 - built tide gauge at Harrington Harbour.
• 1940 - North shore of Gulf tidal stations.
• 1941 - current survey in Montreal Harbour
• 1943 - rebuilt Father Point tide gauge.
• 1943- tidal survey in Saguenay River.
• 1946 - inspected Atlantic coast tidal stations
• Feb. 1948 - transferred out of Tidal section
• 1961 - Headquarters Staff, Engineer (Engineer 3)
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Special Projects (Engineer 3)
• 1968 - retired 16 Feb

D.B. Mehlman

   1965 - Summer Student - CSS Acadia - PEI and NFLD - May 20 to Sept 4 (from NS Land Survey Institute) 
• 1967/68-Training-Hydro I
Photos: Hydro I 1967/68
   1968 - Hydrographer - CSS Acadia - Isle Aux Morts, Hamilton Sound, Nfld (13 May to 7 Sept)
   Sept 68 - Transferred to Inland Waters

J.P. Mein

• 1966/67-Training-Hydro I (Class Photo)
   1967 - Hydrographer - Murray Trent Canals survey, Ont (9 May to 19 Oct)

• born 4 September 1875 in Quebec (1901 census)
• 1904 - came from Public Works upon amalgamation.
• 1904 - Lake St. Francis survey.
• 1905-06 - St. Lawrence River survey.
• 1906-07- compiling St. Lawrence River charts.
• 1914-30 - part of staff of Drafting Office/Chart Construction.
• 1939 - listed as a Senior Map Draftsman
• March 1940 - retired.

Russ Melanson, Regional Hydrographer, Atlantic Region, retired on Dec. 28, 1978 after a long and colourful career with the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

Russ joined the CHS in April 1948 taking part in surveys of the Atlantic Provinces, Sub-Arctic, High Arctic, and the west coast for 16 consecutive seasons. Many of the establishments with which he served are long gone - either retired, sold or sunk. Some of these were CSS Kapuskasing, Acadia, Henry Hudson, Cartier, M.V. Terra Nova and Theron.

His first assignment as HIC was on the CHL Anderson in 1953. Following this assignment, he was given charge of the Cartier, M.V. Arctic Sealer, CSS Baffin and William J. Stewart.

In 1963, Russ transferred from Ottawa to the Atlantic Region. He was appointed Regional Hydrographer, Atlantic Region in 1964. He held this position until his retirement.

Source: Lighthouse, Apr. 1979, p. 21.

Russel Cameron Melanson, 79, Broad Cove, passed away peacefully July, 4 2002, in South Shore Regional Hospital.  Born in Mill Village, he was retired from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, where he was Atlantic Regional Hydrographer for the Canadian Hydrographic Service.  He served in the Second World War as a member of the First Canadian Parachute Battalion, and was a past vice president of the First Canadian Parachute Battalion Association.  Russel was a son of the late Alexander and Cassie (Boland) Melanson.  He is survived by daughter, Laurie (David ) Ewer, Sackville; sons, Russel Jr. (Sandra), Charlottetown, PEI; Garron (Gay), Bible Hill; Ronald (Tina Newcombe), Upper Tantallon; brothers, Rod (Estelle), Mill Village; Rex (Muriel), Bridgewater; Royce (Shirley), Liverpool; seven grandchildren.  Russel was predeceased by his wife, Shirley (Hall), to whom he was happily married for 53 years; infant son, Stanley Alexander; sisters, Sandra, Muriel, Madge, Merlene; brother, Robert.

 Source:  Halifax Herald, July 8, 2002

 Upon retirement, Rus and Shirley moved to Broad Cove, where they could enjoy a beautiful panoramic view of the Atlantic and the adjacent landscape.  Ironically, their home overlooked a large rock formation where the Baffin had run aground year earlier.  After years of spending more time away than at home, Rus was quite content to spend his time in and around Broad Cove.  And probably his favorite pass time was travelling over the back roads of his youth along the Medway river, reminiscing about a time which many of us were never privileged to experience.

Source: Rus’s son, Rus Melanson, Charlottetown (quoted in Lighthouse, Ed. 62, p. 38.)

• 1950 – survey of Coral Harbour (FS 2100)
• 1956 - HIC - Cartier, surveyed Gethsémani Anchorage (north shore of Gulf) (chart 4475)
• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech Off 7
• 1962 - Officer in Charge of Alexis River survey (chart 5179)
•  April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Central Region, Field Officer (Technical Officer 8) will be transferred to Bedford Institute in1963-64

• 1977-Training-Carto I (Class Photo)

• 1904 - came from Public Works upon amalgamation.
• 1904 - Lake St. Francis survey.

R.M. Meredith

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech. Officer 4

J.A. Meunier

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tech. Officer 2

• 1947 - appointed as Student Assistant
• 1947 - Northumberland Strait survey.

1869 - 1917

•  born  17 Oct 1869
•  1901-04  - As a Lt., surveyed Nanoose, under Parry (chart BA3517)
• 1904 - on HMS EGERIA, Active Pass (chart BA 3520)
• 1905 - last season as First Assistant HMS EGERIA.
• 1905 – surveyed Moresby Pass & Gabriola Pass, under Parry (chart BA3618, BA3619)
•  1906 - on loan to Canadian Government hydrographic office
• 1906-09 - Officer in Charge of LA CANADIENNE, Lower St. Lawrence survey.
•  1907 - joined Canadian Hydrographic Service.
• 1907-09 - survey of Ile du Bic to Ile Verte (chart 1204)
• 1910 promoted to Commander
•  1910 - retired from Royal Navy
• 1910 - in charge of icebreaker STANLEY, Hudson Bay surveys.
• 1910 – surveyed Port Burwell,, Labrador (chart BA1221)
• 1911-13 - survey of Rivière Betsiamites to Ile du Bic (chart 1210)
• 1912 - Officer in Charge of Lower St. Lawrence River survey
• 1912 - wrote 1st sailing directions of River St. Lawrence
• 20 March 1913 - resigned  from CHS, returned to the Admiralty as a Commander.

Commander I.B. Miles retired from the Royal Navy and joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service about 1907, to conduct surveys in the Lower St. Lawrence.  In 1910 he was temporarily released from there to take the first survey parties north with the icebreaker Stanley to Churchill and Port Nelson.  He was one of a group in the British Navy known as the “Hungry Hundred”.  In a brief description of that Hudson Bay voyage, it is written:

“A former group of navy navigators, half a century ago, had been lightly dubbed by the seagoing fraternity as the ‘Hungry Hundred’.  In 1895, at a time of international crises, arms race, the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, the British Navy was rapidly expanding.  The strength in ships and men doubled in a ten-year period.  As naval schools were not turning out officers equal to the demand, the Admiralty provided for the entrance into commissioned ranks of one hundred young qualified Mercantile Marine navigators.  Three years later they welcomed fifty more.  Commander Miles retired from the navy about 1906, to join the Canadian Hydrographic branch for six years and then returned to England.” 

For the record, it might be noted that “Admiralty Orders in Council No. 19, dated 9^th August 1898, SUPPLEMENTARY LIST – ADDITION OF FIFTY OFFICERS TO .” containing the following:

“Whereas Your Majesty was graciously pleased by Your Order in Council of the 29^th June 1895, to sanction the entry of One Hundred Officers of the Mercantile Marine as Sub-Lieutenants and Lieutenants, on a Supplementary List of the Royal Navym to meet the requirements of Your Majesty’s Fleet … it has again become necessary to obtain additional Officers who have some experience, and are capable of at once learning the work of Executive Officers, etc, etc.”

Requirements, qualifications, remuneration, etc, were generally, “as Sub-Lieutenants, of or over 22, and under 25 years of age … as Lieutenants, of or over 25, and under 35 years of age … Candidates who have not served in the Royal Naval Reserve will be required to produce a Board of Trade Certificate for Master … serve a year on probation, service in the Navy as Royal Naval Reserve Officer counting as such … Sub-Lieutenants to be eligible for promotion after two years’ service.”

Rates of Pay, Hal-Pay, Retired Pay, as in Tables.  “Pensions for Hurts and Wounds, Widow’s Pensions, Compassionate Allowance to Children, to be at the same rate and nd under the same conditions as those granted to Officers of the Royal Navy or corresponding rank."

“Full Equipment Grant of 30 Pounds to Sub-Lieutenants and 40 Pounds to Lieutenants.”

(This recalls the acceptance of Canadian Hydrographic surveyors into the war-time RNVR by the Admiralty, for hydrographic duties.  Pay and allowances were as for Royal Navy officers, plus the regular hydrographic pay according to grade and classification.  Some were taken on the strength of a ship as Navigation Officer.  Had they had a Canadian master’s or mate’s ticket they could have been paid additional Navigating Officer’s pay.) [R.J. Fraser ought to know; he was one who went this route.]

In the time of Mr. W.J. Stewart and Captain Fred Anderson, we assistants were always signed on the Ship’s Articles along with the crew, in order to accumulate sea-going time, in case anyone later wished to go up for a certificate by examination.

Source: R.J. Fraser's "Hydrographic Notes"

W.B. Millar

• 1968/69-Training-Hydro I
Photos: Hydro I 1968/69

   1965 - Summer student - CSS Baffin (23 June - )
   1966 - Assistant Hydrographer - CSS Kapuskasing - Gulf of St. Lawrence ( 27 June to 13 Oct)
•  1966/67-Training-Hydro I (Class Photo)
   1967 - Hydrographer - Shore Party # 2 - Ship Harb to Sheet Harb, NS (15 May to 5 Sept)
   1970 - Hydrographer - CCGS Labrador - Eastern Arctic - 7 July to 14 Oct.

• 1977 Training-Carto I (Class Photo)

Ian A. Miller

   1955 - Senior Assistant - CGS Kapuskasing - Gulf of St Lawrence - Instrumental in first two-range Decca survey
   1956 or 57 - transfered to Decca Navigator Canada Ltd

P.C. Miller

   1970 - Student assistant - Wm J Stewart - BC, various locations (24 May - 22 Aug) from BCIT.
 

•  born 23 December 1890 at Edinburgh, Scotland
• September 1913 - appointed to Automated Gauges section
• August 1914 - granted leave to join First Canadian Expeditionary Force.
• Enlisted as a lieutenant 23 September 1914 at Val Cartier
• 1919 - returned from military service to Automated Gauges Section.
• 1922-27 - in Automated Gauges section.
• 1923 - in temporary charge of Automated Gauges during Mr. Price's absence (field duties)
• 1928-39 - in Precise Water Levels division.
• 1941 - transferred to Tidal and Current Survey section.
• 1946 - retired

Paul Millette

PAUL MILLETTE - EMPLOYEE WORK HISTORY

• 1947 - student Assistant, Queen Charlotte & Smith Sounds surveys

M.H. (Maggie) Milloy

• 1961 - Headquarters Staff, Clerk (Clerk 2).

Peter Milner holds a Diploma of Technology in Surveying and a Bachelors of Science in mathematics. He has worked as a hydrographer for the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Pacific Region for the past seventeen years [in 1992].

Source: Lighthouse, Spring 1992, p. 28.

M.J. Miners

   1964

• 1970 - Hydrographic Casual - Baffin - Arctic Survey (13 June - 16 Oct)

Don G. Mitchell

                                                                                                            1934-
• Joined CHS January 1958.
• 1958  - First field trip, Tides Currents and Water Levels, MV Theta, Causeway Investigation Northumberland Strait.
• 1959-1960 - Tides Currents and Water Levels- Installed and inspected tide gauges from Quebec City to Port aux Basques.
• 1961-1962 - In office concentrating on tidal analyses and predictions for the Canadian Tide Tables.
• 1963-on - Tidal gauge yearly inspection trips.
• 1964 - Became part of Central Region when it formed in December.
• 1965-1966 - Tidal related field trips to Central Region¹s areas.
• 1967 - Back to HQ Tides & Water Levels. St.Lawrence River tide and current survey in co-operation with Coast Guard.
• 1968 - Survey and measurement of tidal bore in Pedicodiac River.
• 1969-on - Tidal section transferred to (MEDS) Marine Environmental Data Service. Continued working in close association with CHS; preparing the series of Canadian Tide and Current Tables. In MEDS, was head of Information & Publications Section then Analyses & Predictions Section.
• Retired at end of 1992. Now living near Lanark Village.

from CHS records:
• 1958  - First field trip, Tides Currents and Water Levels, THETA, Causeway Investigation Northumberland Strait.
• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tides and Water Level Section, Technician 1
• 1960 - Tides Currents and Water Levels- Installed and inspected tide gauges from Quebec City to Port aux Baques.
• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Tides and Water Levels, Technical Information (as Technician 2)

• April 1963 (CHS org chart)- Central Region, Field Officer (as Technical Officer 1)

• 1968 - Hydrographic Assistant - Trent-Severn Survey, Ont. (13 May to 11 Oct) 

Dave has been Director, Marine Cartography (now Marine Geomatics) with the CHS in Ottawa, since 1985.  Since 1991, he has been concentrating on CHS's efforts in Electronic Charting.  Earlier work with CHS included heading up the Ocean Mapping Group, leading CHS’s involvement in GEBCO, developing the Natural Resource Mapping program and sundry development projects.  He has also worked for the Geological Survey of Canada, Nova Scotia Research Foundation, Imperial Oil and Dalhousie University. 

Sources: Lighthouse, Fall, 1993, p. 20.

            1998 Canadian Hydrographic Conference Proceedings, p. 8.

• since 2000 on special assignment/ educational leave at UNB to participate in definition of Continental shelf under article 76, UNCLOS

• Retired 2004/05?

• 1860 - As a Master, survey of Bay of Fundy (chart BA 353)

• 1905 - Lake Superior survey.

Bill Montgomery

BILL MONTGOMERY - EMPLOYEE WORK HISTORY 

WORK YEAR      WORK ASSIGNMENT                               HIC, MANAGER/SUPERVISOR
07-May-73
1973 - 1974       ETS - Field Tech                                   WW Smith
1975 - 1979       ETS - Special Projects, Field R               Ed Lewis, WW Smith
1980 - 1984       ETS - Development Tech                       Ed Lewis
1985 - 1987       ETS - Dev Tech - Computer Syste           Ed Lewis
1988 -1990        ETS - Dev Tech - Computer Syste           Ed Lewis, Buster Waldock
1991                Engineering & Technical Support             Buster Waldock
1997                Technical Services                                 Keith Weaver
1999 - 2004      Technical Services                                 Bob Langford

• 1920 - contracted as Pilot to sail LILLOOET [sic, more probably RESTLESS], to Quatsino Inlet.

• 1946 - Student Assistant on Bras d'Or lake survey.

Capt. J.J. Moore

•  1919  - Rejoined Hydrographic Service after discharge from Navy.
• 1922-32 - Sailing Master, LILLOOET
• 1932-44 - Sailing Master, Wm.J. STEWART

Moreau (French Navy)

• surveyed Newfoundland in 19^th Century

Morfee

• 1930 - in RCAF, pilot on first air photo mission for CHS on Pacific coast.

• 1943 - hired as 'seaman technical'.
• 1943 - LaHave River survey.
• 1944-45 - Mahone Bay survey.
• 1946 - student assistant on St. Margaret's Bay & Halifax survey.
• 1947 - Halifax survey.

J.E. Morrier, D.L.S.

• 1908 - topographic map survey of Churchill, Man

• listed as serving in [British] Hydrographic Office during WW1

B. Morrison

   1967 - taken on strength - compilation unit - Ottawa
   1968 - working level compiler - Aids section - Ottawa

I.E. Morrison

• 1960 - classification in 1960: Tides and Water Level Section, Tech. Officer 2

R. Morrison

• 1944 - gasolene engineer, Northumberland Strait survey, paid-off.

Robin Morrison

• contractor with CHS before 2000

• 2000-hired permanent-Digital Chart Analyst in Ottawa 

S. Morrison

• 1940 - Coxswain, Botwood survey
• fall 1940 - resigned, to joined RCAF

Tony Mortimer works for the Canadian Hydrographic Service Pacific Region as manager of hydrographic surveys. He has surveyed and managed hydrographic survey operations in eastern Canada and in the Arctic as well as on the British Columbia coast. Before joining the CHS, he served for ten years as an officer on Merchant ships trading mainly in the western Pacific. Tony Mortimer is a master mariner, has a B.Sc. in mathematics and holds a commission as a CLS.

Source: CISM Journal ACSGC, Winter 1992, p. 485.

From Victoria Times-Colonist (9/22/2009):
   Antony Ridge "Tony" Mortimer, born on September 17,1938, passed away at home on September 15, 2009.

•  1966/67-Training-Hydro I-
   1967 - Hydrographer - CSS Richardson - BC Coast revisory and western Arctic surveys (1 May to 2 Sept)
   1967 - Hydrographer (Tech 1) - CSS Wm J Stewart, BC Coast (9 Sept - 12 Oct)
   1967 - Hydrographer - Sooke Harb. and Approaches, BC (16 Oct to 20 Oct)
   1968 - Hydrographer (Tech 1) - Wm J Stewart - BC Coast, numerous locations
   1969 - Hydrographer - CSS Marabell - B.C. (15 April to 6 June)
   1969 - Hydrographer - CSS Richardson - western Arctic (July 16 to Sept 12)

  Frank Rayner Mortimer

• born 11 March, 1889 at Cedar Grove, Ontario, the son of John & Ida Mortimer
• 5 foot 10 inches tall

• 1912 - James Bay survey
• 1913-16 - Lake Superior survey
• 1914-15 – Byng Inlet survey (FS 350)
• 1917 - enlisted with the heavy artillery in Ottawa and went overseas.

• Gunner, with 5th D.A.C. [Books of Remembrance]
• 1918 - invalided home, he died in the Military Hospital, London, Ontario
• Buried at London (Woodland) Cemetery

• Mortimer Island (Lake Superior) (48° 41’N, 87° 02’ W)

• 1964 - Student Assistant (Hydrographic) - CSS Marabell - West Coast - 20 May to 27 August

R, Moses

• 1968/69-Training-Hydro I
Photos: Hydro I 1968/69

                                                                          Eric Robert Mott

    Born in Dartmouth , Nova Scotia on February 9, 1921 . Died January 18, 2006 , in Burlington , Ontario .   Eric joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939 and proudly served through to 1945 in the North Atlantic and European theatres, seeing action at Dunkirk .  After the war he moved to Hamilton and worked for Canadian Westinghouse for twenty years.  He then joined the Canada Centre for Inland Waters where, for 18 years until retirement in 1983, he again fulfilled his love of life on the water.

Obituary from The Hamilton Spectator, Friday, January 20, 2006

F. Mourilyen, R.N.

• 1860 - As a Master, survey of Bay of Fundy (chart BA 353)

R.L. Moulton

• 1968/69-Training-Hydro I
Photos: Hydro I 1968/69 
   1969 - Hydrographer - CHL Verity - Revisory survey - Kingston (Ont) to Quebec City (PQ) - (to 19 Sept)
   1969 - Hydrographer - Ottawa River survey (from 22 Sept)
   1970 - Hydrographer - Lake of the Woods survey ( May 11 - June 14) transferred to Polar Shelf  
               Project

B.J. Moyles

• 1965 - Student Assistant - CSS Cartier - Lake Erie (21 May - 4 Sept)

Captain P.K. Mukherjee us a master mariner who began his sea-going career as a cadet on the training ship Dufferin in Bombay, India. After several years of service as a merchant marine officer on ships of many types and under various flags, he joined the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, as Navigator and Chief Officer of the Canadian scientific ship Hudson. He later served as Chief Officer of the CSS Baffin and Master of the CSS Dawson. Capt. Mukherjee received the degree of LL.B. from Dalhousie University. He is a member of the Ontario Bar and is presently [1984] employed as Senior Advisor, Maritime Policy and International Affairs with the CHS in Ottawa. In that capacity he is a member of the Environmental Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

P.K. Mukherjee was in Trinidad and Tobago for almost two months during 1987 as a maritime law consultant for the IMO, to draft the Trinidad and Tobago Shipping Act in collaboration with the Chief Parliamentary Council. In 1989, P.K. spent three weeks in Jamaica on an IMO assignment to advise and assist the government of Jamaica in preparing their maritime legislation. He then had a short assignment in Ghana for the same purpose. P.K. Mukherjee accepted a two year assignment with the International Maritime Organization as the Senior Deputy Director of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta.

Sources: The Canadian Surveyor, Spring 1984, p. 50.
Lighthouse, Nov. 1987, p. 22.
Lighthouse, Spring, 1989, p. 41.
Lighthouse, Fall 1989, p. 55.

W.G. Mundell

• 1961 - Pacific Region, Clerk ( Clerk 4).

Norman C. Munro

• 1913 - promoted from 2nd to Chief Engineer, LA CANADIENNE at end of field season.
• 1913-16 - Chief Engineer, LA CANADIENNE.
• Is Port Munro (near Marathon) named after him? 

Capt. Murcheson

• 1912 - replaced as Sailing Master, icebreaker MINTO, Hudson Bay survey by Capt. S.W. Bartlett

1891-1965

Born in McKillop Township, Ontario, 1 July 1891, William Campbell Murdie received his elementary and high school education in that area before graduating from the University of Toronto in civil Engineering about 1913. He then went on for his Master's degree specializing in astronomy, geodesy and stereo-photogrammetry. He was articled as a Dominion Lands Surveyor in 1913, and was commissioned March 1916. In June 1914, Mr. Murdie was appointed to the Geodetic Survey of Canada, and in 1916 went overseas with the Canadian Artillery where he served with distinction in France and Belgium until 1919. For his gallantry in World War 1, he was awarded the Military Cross, and when the war ended he returned to the Geodetic Survey.

With the aid of the Tidal and Current Survey steamer Gulnare, he carried out reconnaissance geodetic surveys along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, east of Seven Islands, from 1920-23. With the outbreak of World War 2, Mr. Murdie re-enlisted in 1941 in the military service of Canada, and was appointed a Staff Major at Canadian Engineers Training Centre at Petawawa. When World War 2 ended, he as a staff member of the Directorate of Engineer Development in Ottawa.

Upon his return to civilian life in June 1945, Mr. Murdie was re-assigned to the staff of the Legal Surveys and Map Service where he supervised higher mathematical work in this Division, and in the Division of Map Compilation and Reproduction. In December 1951 he was transferred to the Canadian Hydrographic Service to organize and take charge of its Nautical Geodesy Section. Here he remained until his retirement from active duty in July 1957. In addition to be a Dominion Land Surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Mr. Murdie was a Life Member of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He died after a prolonged illness in an Ottawa Hospital April 15th 1965, aged 74 years.

Source: Soundings, August 1966.

Larry P. Murdock