Albert Salter
Canadian surveyor
About Albert Salter
Lived 1816 – 1874 (aged 57–58). Albert Salter was a Canadian.
Albert Pellew Salter (1816–1874) was a provincial land surveyor in Upper Canada then Ontario in the mid-19th century. He is historically most notable for having discovered magnetic abnormalities at what is now Creighton Mine in Greater Sudbury, while surveying a baseline westward from Lake Nipissing in 1856.
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Who was Albert Salter?
Canadian surveyor (1816–1874)
When was Albert Salter born?
Albert Salter was born in 1816.
When did Albert Salter die?
Albert Salter died in 1874.
What nationality was Albert Salter?
Albert Salter was Canadian.
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