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Charles Grimes: The Surveyor-General Who Mapped the Frontier

Charles Grimes: The Surveyor-General Who Mapped the Frontier

MacKenzie, Gordon J.

Paperback

Series: Shadows on the Map, Book 12

Historical FiguresAustralia & OceaniaGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798248986323
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Charles Grimes arrived in a colony still improvising its own survival. Before New South Wales could become permanent, it needed more than ships and rations. It needed records, boundaries, and a way to turn occupation into enforceable property.

Grimes became the colony's Surveyor-General at the moment when land stopped being a vague promise and became the central prize. From the Hawkesbury and Parramatta to the expanding edges of settlement, his office became the bottleneck through which power had to pass. Survey delays created queues, favours, grudges, and quiet corruption. A signature on a grant could reshape fortunes, while a line on a plan could decide which futures were possible and which were erased.

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