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Furrows In The Sky – The Adventures Of Gerry Andrews

Gerry Andrews (1903-2005) had many adventures in his 102 years. He was a rural school teacher, a forester, a soldier and a surveyor. His developments in aerial photography dramatically changed forestry in BC in the late 1930s and assisted the Allies in the D-Day landings. As BC’s surveyor-general from 1951 to 1968, he supervised the mapping of the province’s large construction projects, often using aerial photography. He referred to the process of mapping the landscape in an airplane as “ploughing photographic furrows up and down the sky at 16,000 feet”.  B&W photographs throughout.

AUTHOR – Jay Sherwood
PUBLISHER – Royal BC Museum
FORMAT -Softback
PAGES – 157
PUBLISHED – 2012
ISBN – 978 0 7726 6491 4

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Category: Product ID: 6148

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Gerry Andrews (1903-2005) had many adventures in his 102 years. He was a rural school teacher, a forester, a soldier and a surveyor. His developments in aerial photography dramatically changed forestry in BC in the late 1930s and assisted the Allies in the D-Day landings. As BC’s surveyor-general from 1951 to 1968, he supervised the mapping of the province’s large construction projects, often using aerial photography. He referred to the process of mapping the landscape in an airplane as “ploughing photographic furrows up and down the sky at 16,000 feet”.  B&W photographs throughout.

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