Édouard-Gaston Deville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Édouard-Gaston Deville

French surveyor

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1849

Place of Birth: La Charité-sur-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 21-Sep-1924

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Canada, France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Édouard-Gaston Daniel Deville, (February 21, 1849 in La Charité, France – September 21, 1924 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) was the first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry, the making of maps based on photography.
He was the Surveyor General of Canada (1885–1924) and Canada's Director General for the Bureau of Surveys (1922–24).
During his lifetime, Canadian surveyors had used his phototopography to map 83,678 square kilometres, roughly the size of the Ireland (84,421 square kilometres) .