David C. Clark

David C. Clark was born in Middleton, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. He spent all his early life growing up in Tatamagouche, in north central Nova Scotia.

Dave has been a professional land surveyor for more than fifty-five years. He is licensed to practice in Nova Scotia and the State of Maine, and has worked on surveying projects in five Canadian Provinces. Dave is a Past President and Life Member of the Association of Nova Scotia Land Surveyors and a Past President of the 3,000 member Canadian Council of Land Surveyors.

Dave's working career spanned 39 years with the Canada Cement Company and Lafarge Corporation, located in Brookfield, Nova Scotia and Havelock, New Brunswick. In the past, he has worked as a construction inspector, blaster, heavy construction equipment operator, mineral prospector, wilderness guide, and for a greater part of his career as a manager in heavy industry.

Dave enjoys writing in his spare time. For a number of years he wrote technical articles for publication in Canadian and American professional magazines and in newspapers. He currently has four published books, including an anthology of some of his land surveying experiences in short story format, a work of historical non-fiction based upon earlier life in central Nova Scotia, and two romantic fiction novels. He is a former member of the Community Editorial Board of the "Truro Daily News," where he contributed monthly editorial commentaries to that newspaper. Dave's works of fiction reflect an inherent familiarity with the people and setting of the Nova Scotian Scottish culture.

Dave Clark retired recently from a managerial career in industry to pursue other interests. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, pencil drawing, painting, gardening, working at his one hundred acre woodlot, and helping at a traditional-style family Bed & Breakfast.

Here's a photo of Dave in 2019, looking up at some of the century-old hemlock trees on the family property.

A young Dave, surveying in the snow.

Another photo of the young surveyor at work with the EDM.

Dave, working with the theodolite.

Contact David:

Email: daveanddeanna@eastlink.ca