Browse Items (15 total)

Government of Canada Travel Bureau, Adventure Along the Trans-Canada Highway, 1961

Image of woman reading map beside Lake Superior on the (relatively new) Trans-Canada Highway.

Tags: Canada, Tourism, transportation, twentieth century

M. le baron de Lahontan, Carte que les Gnacsitares ont Dessiné sur des peaux de Cerfs ..., 1703

Map of the western Great Lakes and land west to the Rocky Mountains. Cartographic elements include scale, degrees of latitude and longitude, location…

Tags: 18th century, Canada, First Nations

Cadwallader Colden, A Map of the Country of the Five Nations, belonging to the Province of New York; and of the Lakes near ..., 1747

Map of the Great Lakes and northern New York. Includes the Hudson and Saint Lawrence Rivers and Maryland. Cartographic elements include compass rose,…

Tags: 18th century, Canada, First Nations, Five Nations, New York, Pennsylvania

Canada. Natural Resources Intelligence Branch. , and Canada. Department of the Interior., Map of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta: showing the number of quarter sections available for homestead entry in each township, 1920

7th edition "prepared in the Natural Resources Intelligence Branch under the direction of F.C.C. Lynch, Superintendent."

Tags: Canada, empire, grid, railway, western interior

Placide de Sainte-Helene, 1648-1734
Duval, Pierre, 1619-1683
, Le Canada
, 1677

"Engraved detailed map of Canada, the Great Lakes and Northeastern United States by Samuel de Champlain. Showing political divisions, many place…

Tags: Canada, exploration, Northwest Passage

Sir David William Smith, "Purchases from the Indians in 1787", 1787

Full title: "Purchases from the Indians in 1787, the Mohawks land and boundary of the lands of the Mississauga Indians"

The "Toronto Purchase" of…

Tags: British, Canada, eighteenth century, Indigenous, Ontario, Toronto

Unknown, The Toronto Purchase (1805 indenture), 1805

A plan of the 1805 revision [Crown Treaty no. 13] of the land acquired from the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation.

Note "maple tree" as…

Tags: Canada, Indigenous, nineteenth century, survey

Chris Lund, National Film Board, Trans-Canada Highway (1952), 1952

Couple consulting a road map in front of the Trans-Canada highway sign, intersection of highways 15 & 17, Ottawa, Ontario (July 1952). NFB still by…

Tags: Canada, highways, twentieth century

Photographer: Duncan Cameron, Proposed Canadian Flag (Nov. 1964), 1964

Design proposal for the new Canadian Flag, featuring three maple leaves.

Tags: Canada, iconography, twentieth century

American Bank Note Company Ltd., Ottawa, Canadian imperial stamp (1898), 1898

Postage stamp that shows the extent of the British empire. Result of an imperial conference on postage at which Canada argued for an imperial system…

Tags: Canada, communications, empire, global

Department of Fisheries & Oceans, Atlantic Bathymetry Coverage, Continental Shelf, 2013, 2013

From Partial submission of Canada to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf regarding its continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean…

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Canada, twenty-first century

Samuel de Champlain, Samuel de Champlain, Carte geographique de la Nouvelle Franse faictte par le sieur de Champlain Saint Tongois cappitaine ordinaire pour le Roy en la Marine. Faict len 1612, [A Paris] : [Chez Iean Berjon, rue S. Iean de Beauuais, au Cheual volant, & en sa boutique au Palais, {grave}a la gallerie de prisonniers], published 1613

First detailed map of Champlain's explorations of New France: from the eastern seaboard into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, up the St. Lawrence River and…

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Canada, Indigenous, New England, seventeenth century

Vincenzo Coronelli, Terrestrial Globe (Gores 21-23), Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, 1688

Date estimated. Images provided by the State Library of New South Wales where the original printed globe gores reside. From the catalog record of the…

Tags: Canada, globe gore, Mexico, North America, seventeenth century

Nicolas Sanson, Le Canada, ou Novelle France, 1657

Copper engraved double page map of Canada and the Great Lakes. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, villages, rivers,…

Tags: Canada, Great Lakes, New England, seventeenth century

Antonio Giovanni Magini, Nova Francia et Canada, 1607

Uncolored engraved double page map of Canada. Shows cities, towns, landmarks, rivers, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes…

Tags: Canada, seventeenth century