Charles Morris St. Paul's Church (Halifax), Nova ScotiaChaining Pin and Plaque marking original Charles Morris House Location, VIC Suites on Hollis & Morris Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia[2]
He was born in Boston and when he first came to the colony he fought in the Battle of Grand Pré. The maps he produced and information he gathered about the disposition of Acadians villages during his surveying of the colony was later used by the Military authority in Halifax to initiate the Expulsion of the Acadians during the French and Indian War.
He was named to the Council 30 December 1755, and did not directly participate in the expulsion decision that July.[4]
Morris, Charles (1964) [1764]. "Observations and remarks on the survey made by order of His Excellency according to the instructions of the 26th June last, on the eastern coasts of Nova Scotia and the western parts of the island of Cape Breton". PANS Report (Halifax): app.B, 20–28.
Morris, Charles; Bulkeley, Richard (1933) [1763]. "State and condition of the province of Nova Scotia together with some observations &c, 29th October 1763". PANS Report: app.B, 21–27.
^This image is not contemporaneous. Given the era of the clothing, the clothing may be simply a mistake by the artist or the image is actually of Charles Morris III, who lived during the Regency Era.
^Morris was preceded in his mapping by Nathaniel Blackmore's work of 1711 & 1712, published by Herman Moll, Geographer, of London. Morris may have been the first observer/surveyor to produce and publish his own maps of the region. Like Blackmore, Morris surveyed portions of the region and then combined his work with information from other mapmakers' maps to produce his larger regional maps.
