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George Blanchard Dodge
George Blanchard
Dodge
was a
civil engineer
and a surveyor with the
Canadian
Department of Crown Lands
.
Dodge
worked
for the
British Admiralty
conducting
surveys in
Newfoundland
before
joining
the
staff
of
Surveyor General
Édouard-Gaston Deville
in
Ottawa
. He was
released
from Deville's staff to supervise the first continuing survey of the
Pacific Coast
of Canada.
Dodge Cove
on
Digby Island
,
British Columbia, Canada
was named in 1907 by the
Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries
, Ottawa, after Dodge who had
surveyed
Prince Rupert Harbour
in 1906 for the
Canadian federal government
.