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Note: Buried in St. Thomas Cemetary, Ontario in a plot surrounded by 5 inch wall. He shares the plot with his wife Elizabeth Agnus Murray, daughter Elizabeth Maude age 12 years 7 months and his grand daughter a Jane Alison Brierley age 7 months the daughter of his youngest child Alice Bosworth Gossage. In the mid to late 1850's through to 1868 Brooks Wright worked as a land surveyer. snippet's from his work as a Surveyer. John S. Dennis retired from his surveying practice and entered the Government Service as Surveyor General of Canada, Wadsworth arranged a partnership with Dennis' former partner B.W. Gossage and established a surveying office on Adelaide Street in Toronto. This partnership only lasted a few years. In 1868, Gossage gave up the surveying business, due to lack of business. Known properties surveyed by Brooks Wright Gossage Dudley: County of Haliburton. 40 chains: 1 inch, 58cm x 58cm, original, surveyed by B.W. Gossage P.L.S. dated Toronto, August 15th, 1862. (Map 7). Map Cabinet - Drawer 11. THE HALIBURTON SCOUT RESERVE Before Becoming the Scout Reserve 1862, Nine townships, consisting of 403,000 acres were surveyed by B. W. Gossage, PLS. National historical park of Strong Wellington The whole and each part of a certain piece or extended of ground located in the town of Prescott, county of Granville and province of Ontario, and comprising lots 29 to 36 inclusively as it is indicated to the plan of the property of Artillery located in the town of Prescott, according to the land surveying which in was made according to the instructions of the ministry for the Grounds of the Crown, on May 11, 1859 and carrying the signature of B W Gossage, provincial land-surveyor-geometrician. 1875, General Manager and Director of the Michigan Midland & Canada Ry, St Clair MI. Witness to marriage of a Berryman, Chas. Valance, 38 years old, born in Cornwall, England to a Brondgeest, Julia E., 22 years old born Montreal on 07-Sep-59.
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