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2 items (originally accompanying a letter from Colonel Vavasour to the Inspector...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/1151
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This record is about the 2 items (originally accompanying a letter from Colonel Vavasour to the Inspector... dating from 1849 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPH 1/1151
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1849
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (originally accompanying a letter from Colonel Vavasour to the Inspector General of Fortifications, 12 November 1849) extracted from WO 44/47. Canada West (now Ontario): Bytown (now Ottawa). Two sketch maps: (1) 'Sketch shewing ruins of quarter ... built by the late Colonel By RE ...'; (2) 'Sketch of ground... proposed to give up to the executors of the late Colonel By RE'. Reference table to each item. Scale: (1) 1 inch to 2 chains [1:1,584]; (2) 1 inch to 4 chains [1:3,168]. Compass indicator to item (2). Item (1) signed by Captain Charles E Ford, Royal Engineers. Both items signed by Lieutenant J Bury, Royal Engineers, and by Colonel H Vavasour, Commanding Royal Engineers. Dimensions: (1) 27.5 cm x 43 cm; (2) 45.5 cm x 55 cm.
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See also MPHH 1/700
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS,coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the War Office
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