1st Year Board Musings members and students. After many years Dave Hardwicke stepped down as a member and chair of the PRM; we will miss Dave’s passion and steady leadership of this Committee over the years. In light of the recent COVID pandemic it seems that every day and at times every hour things are changing. Our hospitals and healthcare system are under stress,
workplaces are closing down with many co-workers and friends under quarantine or self-isolation. There is widespread worry about physical health, mortgage payments, kids’ safety, and the like. The world does not seem to be the same safe place it did just a few weeks ago. In times of uncertainty, upheaval or disaster, there is a time where there is sober reflection of this temporary new
normal. My first year on the board will be one I will never forget! I look forward to another year of service on the board. I am hopeful that our economy will recover shortly after the COVID chaos and we will all return to a more normal lifestyle. I know I will have learned to appreciate the many things I have taken for granted over the years; a good life lesson. ✥
Book Review
Surveying the 120th Meridian and the Great Divide by Jay Sherwood Reviewer: Robert Allen, BCLS (Life Member), CLS (Ret)
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gain, as with all of Jay Sherwood’s books, he has written another well researched and illustrated part of British Columbia and Alberta history. This is the companion book to his earlier book Surveying the Great Divide, The Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917 (See the April 2018 issue of The Link for a book review). The remainder of the Great Divide had to be surveyed up to its intersection with the 120th meridian of west longitude. As with the first part surveyed, it was funded by the Dominion Government as well as the British Columbia and Alberta Governments through the same tripartite agreement. Arthur Oliver Wheeler continued as the commissioner for British Columbia and Richard William (Bill) Cautley continued as the commissioner for Alberta.
Wheeler was to be in charge of the topographical portion of the survey and the establishment of boundary monuments on the peaks adjacent to the passes. Cautley was to be in charge
of the surveying party required to take levels and make the preliminary survey of the boundary in the various passes, and the erection of permanent boundary monuments therein. Cautley was also required to survey the 120th meridian both south and north of the starting point located east of Pouce Coupe, British Columbia. Throughout each summer season a number of the field party members kept diaries and good field notes.
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