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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20EX_salters-meridian-1856_Sudbury-Ontario.html
While laying out a meridian line (a north-south survey line) in 1856, provincial land surveyor Albert Salter observed severe compass needle deflections some five kilometres north of here. Alexander Murray, assistant provincial geologist, examined …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20EW_whitefish-lake-post_Sudbury-Ontario.html
The Hudson's Bay Company had established a fur trading post on the western shore of Whitefish Lake by 1824. It was hoped that a depot adjacent to the portage route to Wakami Lake would help prevent independent traders in Michigan, Wisconsin and so…
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