Chalmers, R. (1895) Report on the surface geology of eastern New Brunswick, north—western Nova Scotia, anda portion of Prince Edward Island. Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report (New Series, Vol. VII, 1894) 149 pp.

In 7895 Robert Chalmers, a geologist working for the Geological Survey of Canada, published a report that contained a map showing the forest boundaries in the western half of Prince Edward Island. / first became aware of the map in the 7929 dissertation of Flo yd Stilgenbauer on the geography of Prince Edward Island which included a reduced copy of the map (shown below). Chalmer’s original report is concerned almost entirely with New Brunswick — for which there is extensive comment on past and present forest exploitation. The only explicit comment on the forests of Prince Edward Island concerns the distribution of cedar, which / quote below. How Chalmers managed to map the forest boundaries in such detail in the days before aerial photography is not clear ~ all he says is that the field work was carried out over four seasons between 1890 and 7893, though this included also the adjacent parts of New Brunswick, and Cumberland County in Nova Scotia. Chalmers’ forest boundaries do make sense and are not dissimilar to later maps of the island’s forested area produced in the age of aerial photograph y. He even distinguishes on the map between areas of ”old growth” and ”recent growth’. The companion map sheets are too large to include in this report, and so / include instead the small copy made by Stilgenbauer — which even as presented here has been enlarged. Chalmer’s original map had a scale of 7:250, 000 lie. 7 cm. = 272ka.

REFERENCE: Stilgenbauer, F. A. (1929) The Geography of Prince Edward Island. Unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

The cedar (Thuya occidentalis), though common in New Brunswick in all moist low

Cedar grounds, and also met with not uncommonly in Prince Edward Island, is a tree d/StrlbUt/On- restricted in its range, occurring only very sparingly, if at all, in the peninsula of Nova

Scotia. [p. 141 M] Small growth On the map running from near the coast at Burton In Lot 7 to the eastern boundary

in one spot. of Lot 9 are the words: ”Original growth small here’.

The map from Stilgenbauer.

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SAND-DUNK HARRINS

Figure 9. A photocopy of Figure 29(b) from Stilgenbauer (1929), which is derived from Sheet 5 S.W. and part of 4 NW. of Chalmers (1895).

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