Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps and Illustrations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgments xiii
7. Contributors xv
8. Introduction 1
9. Hydrography in New France 10
10. Alejandro Malaspina’s Survey Operations on the Northwest Coast, 1791–1792 22
11. The Publication of British Admiralty Charts for British Columbia in the Nineteenth Century 50
12. “The Incarnation of Energy”: Raymond Préfontaine, the Hydrographic Survey of Canada, and the Establishment of a Canadian Naval Militia 74
13. Hydrographic Survey Work of the Departments of Public Works, Railways and Canals, and the Interior, 1867–1914 93
14. HMS Challenger’s Surveys in Labrador, 1932–1934 113
15. Hydrographic Studies of Russia’s Northern Oceans, 1900–1940 142
16. Wartime German Hydrography in Canadian Waters 163
17. Canadian Technical Advances in Hydrography since 1945 178
18. At Sea with Hydro: William Metcalf and USS Edisto’s Arctic Cruise, Spring 1951 201
19. Notes 225
20. Bibliography 253
21. Index 271