Surveying The Dominion Lands In Canada

An illustration in the Manual shewing the system of survey of the Dominion lands, with instructions to surveyors:

Township 48, Range 10, West Of Sixth Meridian

East Boundary Of Section 11, Course North

The Dominion Land Survey is the method used to divide most of Western Canada.  The Sixth Meridian at 118° west, near Grande Prairie, Alberta and Revelstoke, British Columbia.