- Frank Compton Green (1873-1963) was a civil engineer born in Saint John, NB, and educated at the University of New Brunswick. Upon graduation in 1893, Frank served as an engineer for four years on the railways in New Brunswick. He came to BC in 1897 and became a provincial land surveyor the following year in Nelson. He worked mostly on mining surveys.
- In 1904 in San Francisco, Frank married Myra Hatt (1872-1949), a native of Fredericton, NB, who had just moved out west. In 1911 Frank and Myra moved from Nelson to Victoria, and Frank established a private engineering firm, Green Brothers, Burden & Co (his brother Alfred H. lived in Nelson, while Frederick P. Burden lived in Fort George, BC). This firm became one of the largest of its kind in BC.
- Frederick Burden became Provincial Minister of Lands in the 1928 Conservative Government and Frank served as Surveyor-General of BC from 1930-46, and was responsible for revising many of the provincial administrative boundaries, including judiciary, electoral and educational. He was also a pioneer in the use of aerial photography in topographic mapping. Frank was chairman of the Victoria branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and for 30 years was a member of the board of the BC Land Surveyors Corp. He served as president in 1911-12.
- Born in Fredericton, N.B.
- Active in Victoria Historical Association.
- Buried at Royal Oak Cemetery, Saanich.
- Loyalist Ancestor for F.C. Green: George Linkletter, 1737- 1783, Settled in P.E.I.
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