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MacLeod and Carre were a firm of engineers and surveyors from Belleville, Ontario.

Henry MacLeod was born in Drynoch, Scotland on 29 May 1832. He came to Canada in 1845 and became a civil engineer and land surveyor. He married Emily Murney of Belleville in 1867. MacLeod died in Ottawa on 28 June 1919.

Established in 1952 and incorporated in 1957 as Marshall Macklin Monaghan Limited (MMM) by Professor Oscar Joseph Marshall, P.Eng, OLS, Professor Harold Lawson Macklin P.Eng, CLS, OLS, and Patrick Anthony Monaghan, OLS.
Today MMM is a "multidisciplinary professional services firm active in program and project management, civil and building engineering, planning and geomatics."

Michael Joseph McAlpine was born on January 13, 1924. Between the years of 1942-1945 he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Throughout his non-military career he worked as an Ontario Land Surveyor (O.L.S.). His wife was Mary Delphine (nee Steenburg) McAlpine (1934– 2013). Michael McAlpine died on August 12, 2001 at an age of 77 years. He was buried in the Our Lady Of Mercy Parish Cemetery at Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.

Frank Chester McKergow was born on January 10, 1912 at Waterloo, Quebec, Canada. He attended University of Bishops’ College in Lennoxville, Quebec and subsequently the Royal Military College and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. McKergow enlisted in the Governor General’s Foot Guards, later the 21st Canadian Armoured Regiment, and travelled overseas in October 1942. He saw action in Holland, Belgium and Germany. He returned to Canada in January 1946. McKergow studied surveying and eventually joined the Department of Lands and Forests, now the Ministry of Natural Resources, as an Ontario Land Surveyor. His main task was to survey base and meridian lines in the far northwest of Ontario.
In 1964 he became Supervisor of Crown Surveys, retiring 11 years later in 1975. His wife was Hazel Pitt Burton. He died on August 18th 2008 at Bolton, Ontario. He was 96.

A licensed Ontario Land Surveyor located in Hastings County, Ontario.

William Murdoch was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 7 August 1836. He died in Bowmanville, Ontario, on 31 July 1918.

John Lawrence Power O'Hanly was born in Waterford, Ireland on 24 June 1827. He emigrated to Canada in 1846 and trained as a land surveyor. He died in Ottawa on 22 March 1912.

Lloyd Parker was born in 1937. He graduated from Queen's University in 1958 with a degree in Engineering Physics. He worked as on Ontario Land Surveyor (O.L.S.). He married Wendy Stewart on May 4, 1974. He died in Perth, Ontario on May 3, 2014.

Around 1773, James Peachey worked in the office of the surveyor general for Quebec. By May 1783, he was employed as a deputy surveyor under surveyor general Samuel Holland. He surveyed lots of land for troops and loyalists in Upper Canada. He died on November 24, 1797 likely due to an epidemic in Martinique where he was deployed.

John Pierce was born at Pembroke, Ontario in 1918. He attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and graduated in 1941 with a B.Sc. (Eng.). The following year he served with the Royal Canadian Engineers Italian and European campaigns (1942-1945). In this role, he received the Military Cross. During his surveying career John sat on many Ontario Land Survey boards and completed numerous surveys of Ontario areas. He died in 2003.

Archibald was born on January 25, 1859 to parents Archibald Sr. and Mary Frances Patterson, at Belleville, Hastings, Ontario. He trained as a land surveyor under Thomas Bolger, P.L.S., and then moved west in 1879 as assistant land surveyor to Bolger. Throughout his career, Archibald was active in Regina and Northwest Territories as a Dominion Land Surveyor and as an architect. He died at Edmonton, Alberta, on 20 January 1915. He was a cousin of Lt. Col. W.N. Ponton.

A land surveying and civil engineering firm led by Onesiphorus Bartley, P.L.S. (b. 4 Apr 1815 - d. 28 Sep 1879), and George Warner Ranney, C.E. (b. 1821 - d. 27 Jun 1907).

John Thomas Ransom was born on August 25, 1889, to parents Giles Sanders Ransom and Margaret Wilson at York, Ontario. He married Lottie Ruth Long on March 19, 1912, at York, Ontario. He was a Provincial Land Surveyor active in Hastings County from the 1940s-1960s. His son, Thomas S. Ransom was also a surveyor in the local area. John Ransom died on October 13, 1962.

Thomas S. Ransom was a Provincial Land Surveyor who was active in the Hastings County area during the 1960s. His father, John Thomas Ransom, was also a provincial surveyor in the area.

Harry Richards was born in 1898 to parents George Richards Sr. and Kate Price. He was baptized on July 8, 1898 at Rolleston, Stafford, England. By 1913, the family had immigrated to Canada, where Harry trained and worked as an Ontario Land Surveyor. He married his wife, Gertrude Mae Montgomery, on July 15, 1925, at Brantford, Ontario. He died in 1966.