CA-K808Places & geography

Édouard Deville, Surveyor General and photogrammetry pioneer

Édouard-Gaston Deville, 1914. Édouard-Gaston Deville · Unknown author · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

Factual accuracy review: No recorded challenge

No recorded challenge is not proof of accuracy. A challenge under review is not a finding that the item is false.

Édouard-Gaston Deville, a former French Navy hydrographer, came to Canada in 1874, took part in the Dominion survey of the North-West, and became Surveyor General in 1885. A pioneer of photogrammetry, he used it to map the Canadian Rockies between 1888 and 1896 and earned an international reputation for his writing, instruments and map reproduction methods. Mount Deville in Yoho National Park bears his name.

Scope & context

Deville as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Édouard-Gaston Deville National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text