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DEVILLE, Edward Gaston, Canadian surveyor, born in La Charite Sur Loire Nievre, France, in 1849. He was educated at the naval school, Brest, and afterward joined the French navy, and had charge of extensive hydrographic surveys in the South Sea islands, Peru, and elsewhere. He retired from the navy in 1874 and went to Canada, and soon after his arrival there entered the service of the Quebec government, where he remained until 1879 as inspector of surveys and scientific explorer. He was commissioned as provincial land surveyor in 1877; as Dominion land and topographical surveyor in 1878; in 1881 he became inspector of Dominion land surveys, and in 1885 was appointed surveyor general of Canada. He is a fellow of the Royal astronomical society and of the Royal society of Canada. He is the author of " Astronomic and Geodetic Calculations," and of several scientific papers.
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