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connected with that department ever since. He was appointed 

 Director of Surveys in 1878, which position he still fills. He was Sec- 

 retary of the Board of Examiners of Land Surveyors from 1869 to 

 1886 when the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors was formed. 

 He was the first president of the Association and has since its organiza- 

 tion been Chairman of the Board of Examiners and Chairman of the 

 Board of Management. In 1890 he devised for the government a 

 system of exploration of Northern Ontario which resulted in making 

 available for settlement and mining operations sixteen million acres 

 of valuable agricultural and mineral lands. 



The following gentlemen have also 'been connected with the civil 

 service of the province since 1867 : C. H. Sproule, Assistant Treasurer; 

 D. G. Ross, accountant of the Department of Lands, Forests and 

 Mines.; T. P. Edwards, Accountant and Law Clerk of the Department 

 of Public Works and J. M. Ridley of the Provincial Secretary's De- 

 partment. 



