Thanks, Jay, for your speedy & helpful reply Carol Norman cgnorm@earthlink.net > [Original Message] > From: <jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: <newbrunswick@rootsweb.com>; <cgnorm@earthlink.net> > Date: 8/3/2011 2:38:32 PM > Subject: Re: [ NB ] Training to be a Surveyor > > In 1851 there was no formal training for surveyors. Young men would be apprenticed to licensed surveyors and earn their papers from the Crown Lands Office. > > Lists may have been published in the annual legislature reports, which can be accessed through Early Canadiana Online. You might try to find details by entering the surname and keywords "surveyor" and "New Brunswick" at > http://www.canadiana.org/ECO > > Snilarly, the surname and "surveyor" might yield results fom Fred Johnston's site: > http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/Search.aspx?culture=en-CA > > Jay Underwood > Elmsdale NS > > Coming soon: > "Fleming's Army: The civil engineers who built the Intercolonial Railway" >From Railfare*DC Books. > Contact author for details > Also from Railfare: > "Ghost Tracks" supernatural stories from Nova Scotia's Railways. > http://www.railfare.net/Ghost%20Tracks.html > http://www.railfare.net/FromFollyToFortune.html > http://www.railfare.net/builtforwar.html > From Pennydreadful Publishing: > "Confederation Conspiracy: The curious career of a civil engineer" > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1617638 > "Kings of the Iron Road: The men who made Nova Scotia's railways work" > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2084740 > Or see author for details > www.Pennydreadfulpublishing.com > > ---- Carol Norman <cgnorm@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Hello List, > > A man on our family tree appeared in the 1851 census of Saint John with the occupation of surveyor. Does anyone know what kind of training one would have to have to pursue this trade? Was there any sort of official certification or licensing for surveyors at that time period that might be on record somewhere? Thanks much > > > > > > Carol Norman > > cgnorm@earthlink.net > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > List Announcements can be found at > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > > List home page at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/CAN/NewBrunswick.html > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEWBRUNSWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message