Bill Text: OR HCR17 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Recognizing achievements of surveyor and geographer David Thompson and commending North American Land Surveyors for participation in 2011 David Thompson Columbia Brigade.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-16 - Filed with Secretary of State. [HCR17 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HCR17-Enrolled.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                 House Concurrent Resolution 17

Sponsored by Representative KENNEMER, Senator ATKINSON (at the
  request of Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon)

  Whereas David Thompson, born in 1770, was an English-Canadian
fur trader, surveyor and map-maker, known to some native peoples
as 'Koo Koo Sint' or 'The Stargazer'; and
  Whereas David Thompson, over his career, mapped more than 3.9
million square kilometers of North America, nearly one-fifth of
the continent, and has been described as the greatest land
geographer who ever lived; and
  Whereas David Thompson, in 1784, entered into an apprenticeship
with the Hudson's Bay Company and left England, never to return;
and
  Whereas David Thompson soon emerged as a rising star in the
company's surveying ranks; and
  Whereas David Thompson joined the North West Company in 1797 to
further pursue his interest in surveying and mapping the interior
of what would become Canada; and
  Whereas David Thompson was charged by the North West Company to
find a route to the Pacific to promote access to the fur trading
territories of the Pacific Northwest; and
  Whereas David Thompson, in 1807, crossed the Rocky Mountains
and surveyed the Columbia basin, and mapped and established
trading posts in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Western Canada;
and
  Whereas David Thompson, in 1811, was the first European to
navigate the full length of the Columbia River; and
  Whereas David Thompson also was chief surveyor for the
International Boundary Survey, establishing the boundary between
the United States and British North America from the Lake of the
Woods to Quebec, for which he was honored as the 'Chief Surveyor
and Astronomer' of the British government; and
  Whereas David Thompson, when he left the Pacific Northwest
after 28 years, 22 of them as a trained surveyor, had traveled
55,000 miles and surveyed 1.9 million square miles of wilderness;
and
  Whereas on June 2, 2011, as part of the David Thompson Columbia
Brigade, approximately 20 Voyageur Canoes will leave Invermere,
British Columbia, on a 1,200-mile trip to Astoria, Oregon, via
the Kootenai, Clark Fork, Pend Oreille and Columbia Rivers and
will arrive in Astoria, Oregon, on July 15, 2011, 200 years to
the day after David Thompson's arrival in 1811; and
  Whereas one of these 25-foot Voyageur Canoes is the North
American Land Surveyors' entry named the 'Koo Koo Sint'; and
  Whereas North American Land Surveyors is an association of
professional land surveyors from British Columbia, Alberta,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana; and
  Whereas North American Land Surveyors is pleased to participate
in the David Thompson Columbia Brigade as a way to acknowledge
and honor one of its own; now, therefore,

Enrolled House Concurrent Resolution 17 (HCR 17-INTRO)     Page 1

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
commend the life and achievements of David Thompson, recognize
his contributions to the history of Oregon and congratulate North
American Land Surveyors and professional land surveyors in Oregon
for their participation in the 2011 David Thompson Columbia
Brigade.
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                                 Adopted by House March 16, 2011

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                                 Ramona Kenady Line, Chief Clerk
                                            of House

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                                  Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

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                                 Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

                                  Adopted by Senate May 2, 2011

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                                  Peter Courtney, President of
                                             Senate

Enrolled House Concurrent Resolution 17 (HCR 17-INTRO)     Page 2