Marshland: Records of Life on the Tantramar

Retrieval Number: 0102/3/p.109 Survey of marsh lots A and B next to the LaPlanche River, William Moffat, Deputy Surveyor [1836]. Mount Allison University Archives, Trueman family fonds. May be reproduced only with permission of Mount Allison University Archives.
	Like the 1796 survey document shown in image 3 (8317/8/5), this example, forty years later, shows that survey techniques had changed little. As before the survey provides the bearing for principal lot lines and boundaries, and because it is marsh land, the line of the dyke is carefully plotted so as to provide the basis for determining the useable acreage.
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