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Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis (19 October 1820 – 7 July 1885) was a Canadian surveyor, militia officer, and civil servant.

In 1866, Dennis led an ill-fated militia attack against the Fenians at Fort Erie. Dennis is noted for his role in precipitating the Red River Rebellion by his 1869 surveys of the Red River Colony. He was the father of Colonel John Stoughton Dennis Jr., who also became a noted surveyor and militia officer.[1] In 1882 he was created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Dennis had apprentices who became prominent surveyors themselves, including Charles Unwin, and Vernon Bayley Wadsworth.[2]

References

  1. "John Stoughton Dennis Jr". Government of Alberta. Archived from the original on 2013-08-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.landsurveyinghistory.ab.ca%2FCharacters%2FDennis_JS.htm&date=2013-08-21. "His father was John Stoughton Dennis Sr., who became the first Surveyor General in the Department of the Interior. J.S. Dennis Jr. was educated at Trinity College School and Upper Canada College and also attended the old Military School at Kingston." 
  2. "Mapping Toronto's First Century: 1787-1884". Toronto Public Library. http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/maplib/gta/mapping.html. Retrieved 2013-08-21. "Vernon Bayley Wadsworth (1842-1940) and Charles Unwin (1829-1918) were prominent surveyors in Toronto in the latter half of the century. Both were pupils of J.S. Dennis. They were in partnership from 1868 to 1876 when Wadsworth left the firm to work for the London and Canadian Loan and Agency Company. Unwin also held the position of an Assessor for the City from 1872 to 1905, when he was appointed City Surveyor. The firm from which he retired in 1896, Unwin, Murphy, and Esten, is still in existence today." 
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