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Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps
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by Derek Hayes
Derek Hayes
Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps
272
by Derek Hayes
Derek Hayes
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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 Canadamany never before publishedand 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 detailhistory seen from a whole new perspective.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781771620796 |
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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 |
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