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at Quebec with Wolfe, and afterwards spent 

 several years in making a wonderfully accurate 

 survey of the St Lawrence and Gulf. His pupil, 

 Vancouver, after whom both a city and an 

 island have been named, did his work on the 

 Pacific coast equally well. The principal 

 hydrographer of the nineteenth century was 

 Admiral Bayfield, who extended the survey 

 over the Great Lakes, besides re-surveying all 

 the older navigational waters with such perfect 

 skill that wherever nature has not made any 

 change his work stands to-day, reliable as 

 ever. And it should be noted that all the 

 successful official surveys, up to the present 

 century, were made by naval officers — another 

 little known and less remembered service done 

 for Canada by the British guardians of the sea. 



