The Association Story

 

1905 The Birth of Alberta
1910-1911 The Birth of the ALSA
1912-1913 The Urban Land Boom
1914 "The Hoodooed Year"
1915 A Family Rift
1916 Town Planning
1917-1918 ALSA Becomes a Landowner
1919-1920 A Protest over Pay Scales

1921 The Debate over Tariffs
1922-1923 Growing Enthusiasm
1924 Mr. Cote Goes to the Senate
1925 Adverse Possession
1926-1928 Poor Attendance
1929 Things Were Looking Up

1930 Recording Monuments
1931-1934 Hard Times
1935 The Old Mistrust of Ottawa
1936-1939 An All-Time Low

1940-1942 Difficult to Believe
1943-1945 Land Surveying in Rehabilitation
1946 Beyond Capacity
1947 Oil and the Land Surveyor
1948 New Members
1949-1950 Preoccupied with Examinations

1951 Desk-Pounding Responses
1952 The Big Leap Forward
1953-1954 "New Lines of Thought"
1955 A Break with Tradition
1956 New Grist for the Mill
1957 Professional Business Practice
1958 Water Boundary Struggles
1959 The 50th

1960 A Professional Outlook
1961 Persistent Rumours
1962 On Top of Scientific Advancements
1963 The Corporate Image
1964 Borderline Ethics are not Enough
1965 Planners and Land Surveyors Acts
1966 The Four Responsibilities
1967 Profound Advances
1968 The First ALSA Office
1969 The Possibilities of a University Survey Program

 

1970 Survey Control Areas
1971 The EDM Baseline Established
1972 Errors & Omissions Insurance
1973 Legislative Changes
1974 Charging Articled Students
1975 The Erosion of the Surveyors' Position
1976 Continuing and Unremitting Pressure
1977 Metric Measurements
1978 The First Full-time Registrar
1979 A Record 42 New Members

1980 Formal Approval of the University Program
1981 The First Graduates
1982 The First Survey Corporations
1983 Competitive Bidding and a New Tariff of Fees
1984 It's All Under Review
1985 The Absence of Adequate Written Standards
1986 Maintain the Survey Fabric
1987 RPRs and a Lively Debate
1988 Delayed Posting
1989 A New Manual Come Hell or High Water

1990 A Cadastral Professor
1991 Eliminate Redundancy and Provide Consistency
1992 A New Era
1993 The Implementation Stage
1994 The Establishment of Systematic Practice Review
1995 Unauthorized Practice and Federal Competition
1996 Vision 2000
1997 High on Energy
1998 No to Mandatory Continuing Education
1999 Digital Submissions

2000 The Perception of Land Surveying at the University of Calgary
2001 Bagpipes Around the Lake
2002 Labour Mobility
2003 Private Members Bills
2004 Something Has To Be Done
2005 Laying Down the Lines
2006 Building Relationships
2007 New Acronyms
2008 The David Thompson Bicentennials
2009 The Credit Crunch

2010 Dual Plan Registration


 

 

The Association Story from 1910 to 1959 was written by Jack Holloway.

The Association Story since 1959 was written by Brian Munday.

 

Click here for a summary of where the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association's annual general meetings were held.

 

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