Week Five

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Week Five

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Profs Campbell and Jakacki

Items in the Week Five Collection

A Plan of the Island of St. John (1775)
Full title: Samuel Holland, A plan of the island of St. John with the divisions of the counties, parishes, & the lots as granted by government, likewise the soundings round the coast and harbours (surveyed 1764-65).

A Plan of the town of St. Andrew’s (1785)
"Model town" plan for the Loyalist settlement of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.

"A PLAN of the TOWN of St ANDREWS Situated at the Head of Passamaquoddy Bay-laid out for the Accomodation of Loyal Emigrants & disbanded Corps done under the Orders and…

Map of part of the Indian Lands in Nova Scotia, 1842 – Annapolis County (1842)
John Spry Morris, Surveyor General, Map of part of the Indian Lands in Nova Scotia, 1842 – Annapolis County (1842). "Plan for Reserve for Indians at Bear River in the county of Annapolis."

Indian Commissioner Joseph Howe's first "Report on…

Carte du Gouvernement de Trois Rivières
Carte du Gouvernement de Trois Rivières qui comprent en descendant le fleuve St- Laurent depuis la sortie du Lac St-Pierre jusqu'à Ste-Anne levée en 1709 par les ordres de Monseigneur le Comte de Ponchartrain commandeur des ordres du Roy ministre…

Civitas Londinum:  Agas Map (Map of Early Modern London)
The Agas map as it is shown in context of the Map of Early Modern London project. Civitas Londinum is a bird's-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561.

A Plan for Rebuilding the City of London, After the Great Fire in 1666, but Unhappily  Defeated by Faction
This is a reduced version of Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire which destroyed seven-eighths of the city.

This edition has a textual explanation beneath the map. Wren was a Professor of Astronomy at Oxford with…

London after the Fire dated 1667
A map of the City of London prepared by John Leake, William Leybourne and four others, to show the extent of the area devastated by the Great Fire of 1666.

London &c., accurately surveyed by Wm Morgan, His Majesty Cosmographer
This is a later edition of the map of London and the built up area around it first issued by Morgan in 1681-82. The title of the map is missing. Also missing are the views of the equestrian statues of Charles I and II, prominent buildings and…