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Famous Surveyors and Explorers Maps of Canada
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![Printed map. "Improv'd from the late Survey of Captain Holland. Published as the Act direct April 6, 1775." Visual scale [30 mm=5 miles]. Includes inset, [Location map, Gulf of St. Laurence]. Includes 2 tables: "The Contents of the Respective Divisions of the Island of St. John" and "A List of Lots and Proprietors Names". In upper right margin, "XIII." Described in Catalogue of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada, H12/204 - 1775, volume 1, p. 284: "The map was originally drawn in 1775 by A. Dury. The original map had a slightly different title ("A plan of the Island of...") and lacked the list of proprietors."](/files/original/d57002e52180f98f1f5b678a2e7b0698.jpg "Printed map. \"Improv'd from the late Survey of Captain Holland. Published as the Act direct April 6, 1775.\" Visual scale [30 mm=5 miles]. Includes inset, [Location map, Gulf of St. Laurence]. Includes 2 tables: \"The Contents of the Respective Divisions of the Island of St. John\" and \"A List of Lots and Proprietors Names\". In upper right margin, \"XIII.\" Described in Catalogue of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada, H12/204 - 1775, volume 1, p. 284: \"The map was originally drawn in 1775 by A. Dury. The original map had a slightly different title (\"A plan of the Island of...\") and lacked the list of proprietors.\"")
![Printed map. "Drawn from surveys taken by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty by James Cook and Michael Lane, surveyors and others." "Published according to Act of Parliament, 10th May 1775, by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to the King." Second state. Another copy, see RMC_107398. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, Volume II, entry 539, p. 175: "Second state.... Published in: American Atlas No. 14, 1775 [1780], 1777, 1783. & The North American Pilot. 1770, 1776 [1780]." Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 635, p. 134: "Shows harbors, bays, and inlets, rocks, shoals, banks, soundings, islands, the type bottom, relief, and numerous early place-names. The land area is blank except for rivers, lakes, and some mountains, and an Indian path is shown along the coast of Newfoundland opposite the Straits of Belle Isle."](/files/original/ffacfeaafd3b8ef3e3204bf171e124a4.jpg "Printed map. \"Drawn from surveys taken by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty by James Cook and Michael Lane, surveyors and others.\" \"Published according to Act of Parliament, 10th May 1775, by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to the King.\" Second state. Another copy, see RMC_107398. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, Volume II, entry 539, p. 175: \"Second state.... Published in: American Atlas No. 14, 1775 [1780], 1777, 1783. & The North American Pilot. 1770, 1776 [1780].\" Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 635, p. 134: \"Shows harbors, bays, and inlets, rocks, shoals, banks, soundings, islands, the type bottom, relief, and numerous early place-names. The land area is blank except for rivers, lakes, and some mountains, and an Indian path is shown along the coast of Newfoundland opposite the Straits of Belle Isle.\"")
![Printed map. "The Writing Engraved by Mw. Smith." Visual scale [50 mm=5 "nautic miles"]. In upper right margin, "37". This map appears in James Cook's A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... (London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. Volume 2, [plate] 37). The map likely appears in other editions of the Cook text. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.](/files/original/2a2884512f0e6fccd527f4a5b1f22e71.jpg "Printed map. \"The Writing Engraved by Mw. Smith.\" Visual scale [50 mm=5 \"nautic miles\"]. In upper right margin, \"37\". This map appears in James Cook's A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... (London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. Volume 2, [plate] 37). The map likely appears in other editions of the Cook text. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.")
![Printed map. "Published 15 Oct. 1801". Covers Columbia River Region. Shows location of various bands of Indians. Accompanies: Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793, London: T. Cadell [and others], 1801. Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.](/files/original/9c14a3fe93c84074f775a3261dcba440.jpg "Printed map. \"Published 15 Oct. 1801\". Covers Columbia River Region. Shows location of various bands of Indians. Accompanies: Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793, London: T. Cadell [and others], 1801. Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.")
![Printed map. "Published 15 Oct. 1801". Shows Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River Region. Shows location of various bands of Indians. Accompanies: Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793, London: T. Cadell [and others], 1801. Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.](/files/original/809e1f91ac9ea4113ee609b1a71ff051.jpg "Printed map. \"Published 15 Oct. 1801\". Shows Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River Region. Shows location of various bands of Indians. Accompanies: Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793, London: T. Cadell [and others], 1801. Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.")
