e/Charles Rankin

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has gloss	eng: Charles Rankin 1797 - 1886, born in Enniskillen, Ireland, died at Owen Sound, Ontario. Charles Rankin moved to Upper Canada in his early years, in 1820 he was appointed deputy provincial surveyor and worked in the Southwestern Ontario area. He began work in Nottawasaga Bay in 1833 and settled on some of land west of the present town of Thornbury. His more important surveys included; several townships in the present county of Grey; the Garafraxa Colonization Road; the town plot of Sydenham (now Owen Sound); the Toronto-Owen Sound Road; the Muskoka Road; and the town plot of Southampton.
lexicalization	eng: Charles Rankin
instance of	c/Canadian surveyors