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British North America [cartographic material] / by Sidney Hall.

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Date:

April 1st,1829.

Reference:

R11981-608-2-E, Volume number: 359

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #359

Local class no.:

H3/1100/1829

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4146418

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

Canada (Including Eastern Canada up to 1780)

British North America
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Date(s):

April 1st,1829.

Place:

London:

Place of creation:

England

Publisher:

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green,

Extent:

1 map : Hand coloured outline ; 39 x 50 cm on sheet 49 x 59 cm.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Post-Lewis & Clark map of Canada, Alaska and the NW United States, from Hall's rare General Atlas. The map includes rich details in Russian Territory (Alaska) and Canada, including one of the most detailed looks a the various trading houses and fur depot's of the Hudson's Bay Company to appear on a map, with well over 30 trading houses and early British Forts named. Portages, Indian Villages and a host of other details appear.
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Engraver: Hall, Sidney, fl. 1817-1860

Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green (Firm)
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General note:

Pictorial relief.
Prime meridian of Greenwich
"45" appears in upper right margin.
"XLV" appears in lower right margin.
From: A new general atlas, with the divisions and boundaries carefully coloured; Constructed entirely from new drawings, and engraved by Sidney Hall. (1st ed.). London, printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, Paternoster Row, 1830.

Custodial history:

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

Citation/reference note:

Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi west, 386., Phillips, Entry 758, map no 45, David Rumsey Collection Image No: 4224046

Cartographic math data:

Scale [ca.1:14,400,000] (E 160°--W 10°/N 80°--N 35°)

Cartographic math note:

English miles 69 to a degree.

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC175478.

Exhibitions note:

Over the Rockies: The Discovery & Mapping of the Canadian West 1700-1886. An Exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum, March and April, 1956

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359 : Old container label was "1100 CANADA 1829".
Subject heading:

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Canada - Maps - Early works, 1801-1850

North America Early works, 1801-1850
Source:

Private

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist. Microfiche version is open.

Microfiche [R11981] NMC175478

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981] 359

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