Frank Moberly was a Canadian engineer. Moberly was born at

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on 19 July 1845. Frank was the youngest son of

Capt. John Moberly Captain John Moberly (25 June 1788 – 15 January 1848) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of an English merchant, Edward Moberly, a freeman of the Russia Company. He entered the Navy in 1801 when he was only 12 and by 1815 had become a po ...

. Like his brothers

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and

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, Frank also became a Civil Engineer. Moberly took charge of the government

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under

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, from

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to the Kootenay Plains, at the headwaters of the Athabaska in the

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. As a member of the Canadian Pacific Survey in June 1871 he led a party from the Red River to the Yellowhead Pass, accompanied by photographer Charles Horetzky. According to his brother

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, Frank became an authority on mountain passes. Frank Moberly engaged in a number of transcontinental railway and exploration surveys both in

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, from Newfoundland to

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and in the

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. Both his wives, Georgina Agnes McIntyre and Mary Violet McIntyre, were daughters of John McIntyre, Hudson Bay Company officer in charge and factor at Fort William, Ontario, 1855-1877. At

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, he was elected a councillor of the Municipality of Shuniah 1877/78 for Paipoonge township, and served as reeve of the Municipality of Neebing from November 1883 to June 1884."Moberly, Frank," Thunder Bay Mayors & Councillors, 1873-1945 (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2000), 116-7 He died 13 July 1928 at Barrie, Ontario.

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