the Story of COGS

Why Lawrencetown ? Why the Survey school ? [Feb. Update]

February 9, 2013 | By b_maher | Reply More

Lawrencetown was selected because it was the birthplace of JB Hall. Hall recognized the need for this type of education in rural Canada based on his experience of technical education in Germany. He set aside funds for the establishment and operation of this type of facility.

Major Church, who retired to Lawrencetown as a gentleman farmer, after a career in the military and as a civil engineer, recognized the need to train surveyors after the Second World War.

Also read about, my article contribution to GoGeomatics, Scrapbooks and photographs in the Library, Slides of GIS Summer Institute 1987, Georgetown Letters and the Kings County Cultural map.

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Join the COGS Alumni Network on Google+

December 21, 2012 | By t_mackinnon | Reply More

The COGS Alumni Network is now on Google+ Join our Google+ community and help share your stories, photos and other information about your COGS experiences, memories, what you are doing now and much more. https://plus.google.com/communities/107280222910964034354

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Welcome

December 7, 2012 | By b_maher | 1 Reply More

to the Story of COGS, a place for reporting on staff and access to archival material related to COGS such as photographs, newspaper articles or papers on the curriculum. The web site should be regarded as a resource for COGS graduates. It will contain class lists, a directory of staff, and a road map of …

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Photo Galleries

NSLSI 1967/68 Combined Class of Surveying and Photogrammetry

Programming Class of 82

Slides of GIS Summer Institute 1987

NSLSI 1982

The Myth of COGS & Rethinking Rural

Jonathan Murphy has published ‘The Myth of COGS’ on his web site (www.gogeomatics.ca) . It includes an interview with Gary Gaul, a report on a meeting in Annapolis Royal with a group of retired SCP instructors, and a contribution by Val Thomas, COGS graduate and now RS faculty at Virginia Tech. It is interesting that [...]

April 11, 2013 | By b_maher | 1 Reply More

March BLOG – The Story of COGS

Last month, we completed an article on the Story of COGS for Jon Murphy, which he published on the GoGeomatics web site. This led him to ask me to clarify the ‘myth of COGS’, which has taken up some of my time in March. We interviewed Gary Gaul, Head of Maintenance at Lawrencetown and asked [...]

March 19, 2013 | By b_maher | Reply More

Applied Research Projects: Where Technology Meets Purpose

David Colville has an interesting article posted in the NSCC ‘Innovations in Applied Research’ blog that showcases the opportunities, experiences and outcomes of applied research at NSCC. He explains in about 500 words or less how he arrived with a dual role of GIS Faculty and Research Scientist with the Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) after enrolling in the Scientific Computer Programming (SCP) diploma program thirty years ago (1983). Continue Reading Here…

March 4, 2013 | By t_mackinnon | Reply More

the Story of COGS featured in February GoGeomatics Canada magazine

John Murphy of GoGeomatics Canada magazine invited Bob to share his experience and ongoing work with “The Story of COGS” project to the GoGeomatics community.

The February article is about that progress and hurdles experienced during the project as well as an effort to reach out into other Canadian geomatics communities to find past COGS graduates.

Continue Reading the article …

February 27, 2013 | By t_mackinnon | Reply More

The Story of COGS January Update

It has been a pretty busy month over the holidays and I thought that today it was time to provide everybody with a “Big Picture” update on how things are going. For those of you that I have not been in contact with over Christmas, welcome to 2013! Heather and I have returned from snowy British Columbia and are back in the Valley.

Just before Christmas, I worked along with Ted MacKinnon to put together this web site in support of ‘The Story of COGS’ and although the site exists, there is still lots of work to do and we will be adding more material during the months ahead. So take a few minutes to read my my first blog post, explore what has been posted so far and check back often as time goes on.

January 14, 2013 | By b_maher | Reply More

1993 GIS/RS Alumni Newsletter

Today we have the GIS/RS Alumni Newsletter to share with everybody. It was created and sent out to COGS alumni in the spring in 1993.

I believe it was the first and only issue that was created had although Dave Colville said that they had great aspirations to keep it going. We think that it is an interesting historical piece that many would enjoy reading and reminiscing about their time at COGS.

January 14, 2013 | By t_mackinnon | Reply More