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- Collection: McMaster University Library's Historical Maps of Canada
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The discoveries of the expedition under the command of Captain Franklin R.N. near the mouth of the Mackenzie River: and on the sea coast east & west, A.D. 1825-26
"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.…
Survey for a ship canal around the Falls of Niagara
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…
Some observations and sketches of the River St. Lawrence, made in the year 1765
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…
Sketch of North America shewing the proposed route of Capt. Back: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 3, 1833
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…
Sketch of Nootka Sound: A. ship cove {Lat. 49°.36'.N. Long. 233.18.E. Var.17°.49'.E.
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.…
Plan of York Harbour
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…
Plan of the military & naval operations, under the command of the immortal Wolfe, & Vice Admiral Saunders, before Quebec
Printed map. "To the members of the United Services of the British Empire, whose daring achievements this plan is designed to commemorate & honor & to whom it is respectfully dedicated, by their obedient servant, Alfred Hawkins." In lower, right…
Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c.
Printed map. "Par N. Sanson d'Abbeville geographe ordinaire du Roy." "I. Somer, sculpsit". Donated by Dr. John Morse, Hamilton, September 1997.
Le Canada faict par le Sr de Champlain: ou sont la Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Holande, la Nouvelle Svede, la Virginie & c. ....
Printed map. "Suiuant les memoires de P. Du Val, géographe du Roy". Visual scale. Second state. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, Vol. 1, p. 74. Includes "Explication des lettres et chifres de la carte". Donated by Dr. John…
La terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia
Printed map. Third edition. Published originally in Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, vol. 3, 1606. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 1540-1703, vol. 1, entry 17b, p. 18: "In this final [third] edition the page numbers change to…