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Historical Atlas of Canada:

Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps
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Douglas & McIntyre, 2006 - Canada - 272 pages
Maps tell the story in this innovative volume, now available for the first time in paperback. And the story of Canada they tell is profoundly engrossing and rewarding. The Historical Atlas of Canadacovers 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.
  

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Contents

Acknowledgements I
PreColumbian Apocryphal Voyages 23
Early Explorations of the Coasts of Canada 15001527 20
iii
Early English Attempts to Find a Northwest Passage 34
xvii
Early English Colonization Attempts
45
The Founding of Montreal
57
The Defence of New France to 1713
70
The Seigneurial System
76
James Murrays Map 222
112
Prince Edward Island
118
Defining Canada 1783 224
124
Perceptions of the West 232
132
Alexander Henrys Great Map of the West
138
The Hudsons Bay Company Moves Inland 246
146
Native Maps 292
152
James CookDefining the Width of Canada
158

The French Fur Trade Empire
85
The Founding of Halifax
92
The Fall of Quebecand an Empire
99
James Cooks Maps of Eastern Canada
106
Map Catalogue I
257
Notes I
264
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Derek Hayesis the author of the bestselling Historical Atlas Series, which includes the Historical Atlas of Canada, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley, Historical Atlas of Torontoand Historical Atlas of the United States. He holds two degrees in geography and worked for a time as a planner with the Vancouver City Planning Department and as a real estate consultant. He lives in White Rock, B.C.

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