1. Most images have been provided by Ken Allred, ALS, CLS and Patrick Ringwood, BCLS, CLS A History of Surveying

2. Cadastral Plan - Mesopatamia - 1700 BC

3. The Rope Stretchers

4. The Pyramids Pythagoras Flooding of the Nile Early cadastral records to 3400 BC Early Egyptian Civilization

5. Compass developed Chinese invention - south pointing spoon (lodestone) Used as a divining tool in the practice of feng shui Magnetized needles used as direction pointers in the 8th century AD in China Ca. 850 and 1050 common as marine navigational aids 1 st Century – 11 th Century

6. Leonard Digges Invented the Theodolite - England 1571

7. The Sextant - 1730

8. Samuel de Champlain Peter Fidler David Thompson Captain James Cook Early Explorers

9. Samuel de Champlain 1608 Samuel de Champlain

10. Philip Turnor & Peter Fidler Lake Athabasca - 1791 From the book: Canada’s Forgotten Surveyor by Peter Fidler

11. David Thompson Columbia River 1806 David Thompson

12. Peter Fidler Elk Point, Alberta From the ALS News Magazine

13. Technological Revolution 1950 –Geodimeter –Tellurometer 1970 –Desk Top Computer –Total Stations 1990 –Geographic Information Systems –Satellite Positioning Systems 2000 –High Resolution Imagery