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Goderich garden to feature surveyors’ monuments
How does your garden grow?
Vicky, left, and Doug Culbert, members of the Ontario
Land Surveyors Association Archive and Historical
Committee, have started planning a garden featuring
survey monuments of the past. The monuments can
appear in many different forms including the objects
beside them. The garden will be kept beside Doug’s office
on 49 North Street in Goderich. (Denny Scott photo)
Wife and husband Vicky andDoug Culbert will be growing a
garden beside Doug’s surveying
office on 49 North Street in
Goderich, and while plants will play
a part, the real focus is on
monuments.
Both Doug and Vicky are
members of the Association of
Ontario Land Surveyors Archive and
Historical Committee, a group
established in 1892 that is
responsible for licensing and
governing professional land
surveyors according to the
Surveyors Act – a provincial act
that outlines the rights and
responsibilities of surveyors.
The group has found they have an
abundance of monuments that
stretches beyond their current
archiving capacity and need some
place to put them and that was when
Doug and Vicky stepped in.
Monuments are markers that show
surveyors’ work and can, depending
on the time they were used, look
very different.
“Monuments take many different
shapes,” Doug said. “They started
with a blazed tree and can be found
all across Ontario. Most of them are
unknown and are removed or
damaged without people realizing
what they are. The vast majority of
them are collected by surveyors.”
Doug added that, by law, it is
illegal to remove the markers unless
the person removing them is a
surveyor or working under the
supervision of a surveyor. He said
that most that are found through the
course of replacing and upgrading
existing markers.
“They can be the blazed tree, awooden post, concrete monumentsor stone monuments, as well as ironmonuments,” he said.More recently surveyors have
begun using metal markers to survey
land.
The collection of survey
monuments outgrew the existing
space when an individual who had a
personal collection donated his to
the association.
“The archives ran out of space,”
Vicky said. “They needed some
place to put them and we decided to
start working on it.”The wooden markers are harder tocome by due to destruction,according to Doug, and they hadGoderich-area woodworker and
former Maple and Moose vendor
John Hazlitt work on reproducing
the items.
Vicky explained the project as
being a blend of horticulture, history
and Doug’s profession as well as a
project they could tackle together.
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