He is historically most notable for having discovered magnetic abnormalities at what is now Creighton Mine in Greater Sudbury, while surveying a baseline westward from Lake Nipissing in 1856.
•
The later construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the area, however, made mineral exploration more feasible and finally resulted in the development of a mining settlement in 1883.
In 1856 while surveying a baseline westward from Lake Nipissing, provincial land surveyor Albert Salter located magnetic abnormalities in the area that were strongly suggestive of mineral deposits.
Albert Einstein | Royal Albert Hall | Victoria and Albert Museum | Albert Camus | Prince Albert | Albert Park | Albert Speer | Albert Schweitzer | Albert, Prince Consort | Albert Campion | Albert | Albert Park, Victoria | Albert II, Prince of Monaco | Albert Bierstadt | Albert Finney | Johann Albert Fabricius | Albert R. Broccoli | Albert Lee | Eddie Albert | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Albert Bandura | Albert Watson (photographer) | Albert Watson | Albert King | Albert II of Belgium | Albert Brooks | Albert I of Belgium | Albert Gleizes | Mount Albert | Albert, Somme |