Transit and case
Small surveying transits like this were carried into the field to make precision observations and sightings. This E.R. Watts & Sons unit was used by John Anderson-Thomson, an engineer and land surveyor in the NWT for 38 years from 1944 to 1982.
Accession No.
998.026.001 a-j
Maker
E.R. Watts & Son, London, England
Culture
Non-Indigenous
Region
North Slave
Location
Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife
Date
c. 1915