Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps

by Derek Hayes

Overview

Maps tells the story in this innovative volume, and the story of Canada they tell is profoundly engrossing and rewarding. The atlas covers a period of a thousand years and contains essentially all the historically significant maps of the country. Gathered from major archives and libraries all over the world, they include treasures from the National Archives of Canada—many never before published—and many from the archives of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Included are maps by the founder of New France, Samuel de Champlain, by Philip Turnor and Peter Fidler. There are English maps and French maps; Spanish maps and Russian maps; American, Italian and Dutch maps as well as maps drawn by Native people such as the Beothuk, Blackfoot and Cree. Canada’s colourful past unfolds in sumptuous visual detail—history seen from a whole new perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771620796
Publisher:	Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
Publication date:	11/10/2015
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 13.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Derek Hayes, a geographer by training, has a passion for old maps and what they can reveal about the past. He is the author of the best-selling Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest, which sold over 55,000 copies; the Historical Atlas of Canada, and Canada: An Illustrated History. He lives in White Rock, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	4
	Introduction	7
	Saint Brendan and Other Early Navigators	9
	The Norse Voyages	10
	Pre-Columbian Apocryphal Voyages	13
	Out of the Mists--Canada	15
	Early Explorations of the Coasts of Canada, 1500-1527	20
	Early French Explorations	24
	Jacques Cartier--the Foundation of the French Claim to Canada	25
	Early English Attempts to Find a Northwest Passage	34
	Probing the Northern Seas	38
	Early English Colonization Attempts	45
	Samuel de Champlain--the Mapmaker Who Founded New France	49
	The Founding of Montreal	57
	Jesuits and the Fur Trade--French Exploration to 1700	58
	The Defence of New France to 1713	70
	The Seigneurial System	76
	The Coming of the English--the Hudson's Bay Company	77
	The British Attempt to Find the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century	80
	The French Fur Trade Empire	85
	France Explores Westwards--the La Verendryes	86
	The Fall of Louisbourg in 1745	88
	Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's Atlas	90
	The Founding of Halifax	92
	The Acadian Deportation	95
	The Battle for a Continent--the French and Indian War	96
	The Fall of Quebec--and an Empire	99
	James Cook's Maps of Eastern Canada	106
	James Murray's Map	112
	Quebec under the British	114
	The American Attack on Quebec	116
	Prince Edward Island	118
	The Coastal Surveys of Des Barres	120
	The Demise of the Beothuk	122
	Defining Canada, 1783	124
	The Coming of the Loyalists	126
	Perceptions of the West	132
	An Inland Journey	136
	Alexander Henry's Great Map of the West	138
	The Maps of Peter Pond	140
	Alexander Mackenzie Crosses the Continent	143
	The Hudson's Bay Company Moves Inland	146
	The Hudson's Bay Company's Great Surveyors--Philip Turnor and Peter Fidler	147
	Native Maps	152
	The First Map of the West Coast	156
	James Cook--Defining the Width of Canada	158
	West Coast Exploration and Trade	159
	Spanish Explorations of the West Coast	160
	George Vancouver Surveys the West Coast	163
	Defining the West--David Thompson	166
	Early Toronto	169
	A Mere Matter of Marching--the War of 1812	172
	The Selkirk Grant and the Red River Settlement	178
	Fixing the Forty-ninth Parallel Boundary Line	180
	The Rideau Canal	181
	The Canada Company	182
	Arctic Exploration 1818-1859	184
	Westward Expansion of the Fur Trade	197
	The Rebellions of 1837 and the United Province of Canada	20
	Linking the Lakes	201
	Drawing the Line--the Webster-Ashburton Treaty	202
	The Founding of Fort Victoria and the Colony of Vancouver Island	203
	The Forty-ninth Parallel Extends to the Sea	204
	A Pioneer Road Map of Canada	205
	British Columbia Discovers Gold and Becomes a Colony	206
	Henry Hind's Expeditions	207
	The Palliser Expedition	208
	The Coming of the Railway	210
	Confederation and the Intercolonial Railway	212
	The Riel Rebellion of 1869	213
	Manitoba Becomes the Fifth Province	214
	British Columbia Joins Confederation	215
	The North-West Rebellion, 1885	216
	The Canadian Pacific Railway--the Settlement of the Prairies and the Linking of a Nation	218
	Winnipeg--Gateway to the West	227
	Edmonton--Gateway to the North	228
	Calgary--from Police Post to Oil Capital	230
	The Discovery of Oil	232
	The Art of the Bird's-Eye	233
	Vancouver--Pacific Terminus	236
	Ottawa--the Nation's Capital	238
	Toronto in the Nineteenth Century	240
	Montreal after the Fall of New France	242
	Gold in the Klondike	244
	The British Dominion	246
	The Canadian Arctic and the Northwest Passage Achieved	248
	Fire Insurance Maps	251
	The Boundary with Alaska	252
	The Evolution of Provincial Boundaries	253
	Map Catalogue	257
	Notes	264
	Bibliography	265
	Index	268

Editorial Reviews

11/02/2015
Canadian geographer Hayes (British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas) takes a close-up look at more than 400 maps of Canada and the events associated with them, creating an appealing alternative to the musty, just-the-facts version of homegrown history that many Canadians learned in school. Covering 1000 years, these maps document the longstanding importance Canada has held for outsiders, including explorers searching for a northern sea passage to Asia and its fabled riches, and foreign rulers eager to conquer new territories. Maps created by Canadian native peoples also provide an important, non-European perspective on the country's past. Hayes brings everything to life—the wanderlust that fueled the early explorers, the astonishing misconceptions they held about North America, stories about the creators of the maps, and more—in lively, conversational captions and concise overviews of key events. Hayes's exhaustive knowledge of his subject matter makes this book of interest to historians, and the artistry of the maps and the intriguing details embedded in them will encourage other readers to get lost in the pages and encounter Canada's past in a new, invigorating way. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Covering a period of 1000 years for the territory that became Canada and the northern United States, this atlas contains 422 maps, a very high proportion of which are from the National Archives of Canada. Each map is richly annotated by Hayes (Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest) with descriptions of its provenance and historical significance. The many gems include what may be the earliest surviving map (dated 1541) to use the name Canada and native maps drawn by the Beothuk, Blackfoot, and Cree Indians. Also presented are original English, French, Spanish, Russian, American, Italian, and Dutch maps, with place names and legends in their respective languages. Hayes intended this book as a history illustrated with maps rather than a carto-bibliography, and there is a definite synergy between the text and the illustrations. The text is necessary to explain the purpose of each of the maps, and therein lies the rub for the collection placement of this book. Patrons of both public and academic libraries might be better served were this title placed in the circulating collection. Regardless of placement, however, this is a well-recommended book for academic and larger public libraries.-Kara L. Giles, Dominican Univ. Lib., River Forest, IL Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

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