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Printed map. "By Josh. Bouchette." "J. Walker Sculpt." "Augst. 12th 1815." Visual scale, [60 mm=100 chains]. Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 2013(4), p. 414: "In Joseph Bouchette, Topographical Description of the…

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.…

In 1833 Captain George Back of the Royal Navy, and surgeon-naturalist Richard King, sought a land route across the Arctic Barren Lands in an attempt to determine the fate of the missing 1829 John Ross expedition and to pursue the survey of the Arctic…

Manuscript map. Cartographer uncertain as signature is difficult to transcribe with certainty: "By Lieut: James [Holl, Hobb or Holls]". Sheet includes one map showing a section of the St. Lawrence from the Isle of Orleans east to Coudre Island, and…

Printed map. "Made and drawn under the direction of Capt. W.G. Williams U.S.T. Engineers, by Lts. T.F. Drayton and J.G. Reed U.S. Army." "Hor. scale 12 inches to 1 mile." Shows the site of the "Lundays Lane Battle, 25th July 1814" on the Canadian…

"Those to the westward of Point Separation having been made under the direction of Captn. Franklin; and those to the eastward as far as Coppermine River and round Great Bear Lake, by the detachment under the direction of Doctor Richardson, Lieut.…