Jonathan McGregor Smith / on Mt. D’Archiac

A plaque at The Brae, standing in Mount Pleasant. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

JONATHAN McGREGOR SMITH / on Mt. D’Archiac / May 6th 1955 – June 1st 2003 / Grandson of Robert and Ann McGregor Smith from Aberdeenshire. The original settlers on The Brae. 1925 / Special people become a part of who we are

The ground

The Brae

The suburb

Mount Pleasant

The year

2009, the register’s commission

The register says

in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at The Brae

The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

In the archive

Documents naming Jonathan McGregor Smith / on Mt. D’Archiac the shelf, searched for the name on the plaque The record’s own search everywhere else the name appears The Brae the park the plaque stands on Mount Pleasant the suburb it stands in

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

Inside a modelled tsunami reach ECAN Report R12/38 2012 On the plan’s flood map McCormacks Bay, the managed reach Inside the plan’s Mass Movement Management Area 2 band the slope-hazard watch On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Raekura ki Matuku Takotako Inside a kept landscape, NCCE1.0 - Natural Character in the Coastal Environment the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Transport T The rockfall survey counts 2 boulders within 500 m 1 came down The nearest recorded shake: M3.2 23 February 2011 · ~150 m from the pin · 583 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The Brae the community park it’s inside Scott Park Ferrymead community park · ~150 m Walk and bike track through Ferrymead track · under 150 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Woolston track · under 150 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Clifton track · ~150 m from the pin Christchurch / City Council / 1967 / H2o – S10 – T16 plaque · ~500 m Presented by Mt Pleasant Garden Club 1940 – 1980 plaque · ~550 m Donated by Friends and Family / in Memory of / Keith Murray plaque · ~650 m New Zealand’S First Railway This Stone Marks the Site plaque · ~700 m

The reports nearby

460 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 348 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Rubbish and Bins - General 47 St Andrews Hill Rd · 12 October 2026

Poles and Signage - General 18 Te Awakura Tce · 28 September 2026

Street Cleaning 4 The Brae, Mount Pleasant · 17 September 2026

Water Leak 15 The Brae, Mount Pleasant · 15 September 2026

Water Leak 15 The Brae · 12 September 2026

Damaged Street Sign 53 Saint Andrews Hill Road, Mount Pleasant · 31 August 2026

Damaged Street Sign 2 Marama Crescent, Mount Pleasant · 30 August 2026

Street Gutters / Storm Water 53 St Andrews Hill Rd · 14 August 2026

Park - General Request 30 Main Road, Mount Pleasant · 14 August 2026

Street Cleaning 4 The Brae, Mount Pleasant · 28 July 2026

Playground Equipment Rangitira Park Playground 3372333/11 Quarry Road, Mount Pleasant · 24 July 2026

Hazard, vehicle 32 Main Road, Mount Pleasant · 25 June 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at The Brae in Mount Pleasant, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2009. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/54096-the-brae.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.