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- 12 Aug 1968 (Creation)
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1 mylar sheet 79 x 63cm
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Walter Irvine Watson was born in 1929 to parents William and Nellie Watson. He was authorized in 1960 by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors. He later purchased the notes and records of John T. Ransom, an Ontario Land Surveyor, who had surveyed southern Hastings County since 1948. He soon founded Watson Land Surveyors Ltd., a surveying firm in Belleville, Ontario. He worked on developing the east end of Belleville, the 401, the Quinte Mall, the Sears Warehouse, and subdivision development north of the 401. He died on March 2nd, 2008, at Belleville, Ontario, in his 79th year.
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Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.
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A certified reproduction of the "Registrar's Compiled Plan - being a graphic index of Parts of Lots # 29, 32, 33 Registrar's Comp. Plan 163, Township of Sidney.” The area includes; Lots # 1 to 54, Northerly from Canadian Pacific Railway to near Canadian National Railway and Easterly of Montrose Drive, being line between Lots # 24 and 25, Township of Sidney. Surveyed by Walter I. Watson, O. L. S. and signed August 12, 1968.
Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.
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