Английская Википедия:Charles Morris (surveyor general)

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Charles Morris St. Paul's Church (Halifax), Nova Scotia
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Chaining Pin and Plaque marking original Charles Morris House Location, VIC Suites on Hollis & Morris Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia[1]

Charles Morris (8 June 1711 – buried 4 November 1781) army officer, served on the Nova Scotia Council, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1776–1778) and, the surveyor general for over 32 years, he created some of the first British maps of Canada's maritime region and designed the layout of Halifax, Lunenburg, Lawrencetown, and Liverpool.[2] In Halifax he laid out both the present-day down town core and the Halifax Common.

History

He was born in Boston and when he first came to the colony he fought in the Battle of Grand Pré. The maps he produced and information he gathered about the disposition of Acadians villages during his surveying of the colony was later used by the Military authority in Halifax to initiate the Expulsion of the Acadians during the French and Indian War.

He was named to the Council 30 December 1755, and did not directly participate in the expulsion decision that July.[3]

He fought for and won the establishment of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1758). Morris was instrumental in establishing New England Planters in the colony.

As chief justice, his most famous trial was of those who participated in the Eddy Rebellion (1776) at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

Publications

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Site of First Court House Plaque, Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Scotia Square, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Charles Morris map. A CHART OF THE SEA COASTS OF THE PENINSULA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1755

Legacy

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Morris was preceded in his mapping by Nathaniel Blackmore's work of 1711 & 1712, published by Herman Moll, Geographer, of London. Morris may have been the first observer/surveyor to produce and publish his own maps of the region. Like Blackmore, Morris surveyed portions of the region and then combined his work with information from other mapmakers' maps to produce his larger regional maps.
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite DCB
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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