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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Furrows in the Sky

The Adventures of Gerry Andrews

by (author) Jay Sherwood

Publisher
Royal BC Museum
Initial publish date
Apr 2012
Category
Personal Memoirs, Post-Confederation (1867-), History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780772665225
    Publish Date
    Apr 2012
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

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."

About the author

Jay Sherwood is the author of two other books about Frank Swannell: Surveying Northern British Columbia (a 2005 BC Book Prize finalist) and Surveying Central British Columbia (second-prize winner in the 2007 BC Historical Federation Writing Competition). He now lives in Vancouver, where he works as a teacher-librarian.

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