Collection search - Canada and Nova Scotia [cartographic material] / drawn and engraved for Thomson's New Gerneal Atlas

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures.
Prime meridian west from Greenwich.
Area west of James Bay identified as New South Wales. Map also indicates the lands of various native American tribes.
Plate no 54 in upper right margin.
Appears to be from Thomson's 1817 atlas "A new general atlas consisting of a series of geographical designs, on various projections, exhibting the form and component parts of the globe; and a collection of maps and charts, delineating the natural and political divisions of the empires, kingdoms, and states in the world".

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Phillips, entry 731, plate no 54.

date issue determined from Phillips entry which states map 54 produced in 1814.

For another addition of this map see: Mikan 3726456; Amicus No 26306171 (G/1019/N423/1817/fol. Vault).