land surveying

Art installation commemorating the work of Augustus Jones (1797-1836), the Land Surveyor who set out the first Loyalist settlement tracts and government roads such as Yonge St. and Dundas St. Installed in 2009 at Jones/King St. E., Stoney Creek. The so-called Jones Baseline road extends from Burlington Bay to the Conestoga River at Arthur where a wall mural complements this tribute. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, Feb 2014

“Spera House”, 228 Ridge Rd. atop the Niagara Escarpment, built 1874, and what is left of the extensive Montmorency Farm, once the largest Montmorency cherry producer in the area. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, May 2014

The David Gibson House, rebuilt in 1851 partially of stone from Lockport, New York. (There’s a story.) Gibson was the public land surveyor responsible for the laying out of townships and colonization roads in the counties of Bruce, Dufferin, Grey, Huron, Ontario, Wellington and Wentworth before 1856, and in the northern districts thereafter. In its original location at 5172 Yonge Street with development all ’round in 2013. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, April 2013