This first marker of the Dominion Land Survey is located about half a mile north of the actual site on Highway 1 west of Winnipeg.
The marker was placed on 10 July 1871.
Site Location (lat/long): N49.881622, W97.459340
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It is located on the north side of the highway on Portage Ave frontage road, just west of Headlingly, just outside west of Winnipeg.
Transcript of the plaque
RESEAU TOPOGRAPHIQUE DU DOMINION
The first marker of the Dominion Lands Survey was placed 10 July 1871, on the Principal Meridian, about half a mile south of this site. The system, then inaugurated by Lieutenant-Colonel J.S. Dennis, Surveyor-General, extends across the prairies and to the Pacific coast, embracing more than 200 million acres of surveyed lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and parts of British Columbia.
Le 10 juillet 1871, la premiere borne du reseau topographique fur posee a environ un demi-mille au sud d'ici, sur le meridien principal. Le reseau, inaugure par l'arpenteur general j.S. Dennis, traverse toutes les prairies jusqu'a la cote du Pacifique et s'etend sur plus de 200 millions d'acres de terres arpentees au Manitoba, en Saskatchewan, en Alberta et dans certaines parties de la Colobia-Britannique.
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Commissiondes ileux et monuments historiques du Canada.
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