Charles Morris (surveyor general)
Charles Morris (8 June 1711 – buried 4 November 1781) army officer, served on the Nova Scotia Council, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1776–1778) and, the surveyor general for over 32 years, he created some of the first British maps of Canada's maritime region and designed the layout of Halifax, Lunenburg, Lawrencetown, and Liverpool.  In Halifax he laid out both the present-day down town core and the Halifax Common.

History 
He was born in Boston and when he first came to the colony he fought in the Battle of Grand Pre. 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 fought for and won the establishment of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1758). Morris was instrumental in establishing New England Planters in the colony.

As chief justice, his most famous trial was of those who participated in the Eddy Rebellion (1776) at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

Publications 

 "Judge Morris’ remarks concerning the removal of the Acadians," N.S. Hist. Soc., Coll., II (1881), 158–60
 "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), 1964, app.B, 20–28; 
"The St. John River: description of the harbour and river of St. John's in Nova Scotia, and of the townships of Sunbury, Burton, Gage, and Conway, lying on said river . . . dated 25th Jan. 1768," Acadiensis (Saint John, N.B.), III (1903), 120–28. 
His joint report with Richard Bulkeley, "State and condition of the province of Nova Scotia together with some observations &c, 29th October 1763," is in PANS Report, 1933, app.B, 21–27.  p.r.b.]

Legacy 
 namesake of Morris Street, Halifax
 Morris House (Halifax) which his son purchased and where he lived is the oldest wooden residence in Halifax