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
Title
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
Subject
Atlantic seaboard, St. Lawrence River, eastern Great Lakes, with illustrations
Description
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 into the Great Lakes.
From Leventhal Library:
Detached from: Les voyages du sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le roy en la marine. Paris : Iean Berjon, 1613.
"Faict len 1612."
"Avec privilege du roy."
Partly based on information supplied by Indians. Compare Burden, 160.
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north at upper right.
Table showing declination of the sun at 9 locations and key to references A-T, V, X-Z, and [1]-21 in bottom margin.
Includes portrait (11 x 23 cm) of 4 Indian men of the Montaignais and Almonichicois tribes in native costume and scattered illustrations of native vegetation and wildlife; sea decorated with ships and marine wildlife.
Details the region surrounding the Saint Lawrence River Valley westward to the eastern end of Lake Erie; shows settlements and Indian villages.
From LAC:
In the fall of 1612, Samuel de Champlain had an engraving of his first detailed map of New France made in Paris. The map contained new geographic information, based on his own explorations from 1603 onward. The site of Montreal is clearly identified. Using information obtained from Aboriginal peoples, he was able to include previously uncharted areas, such as Lake Ontario and Niagara Falls. He also made use of other maps to depict certain regions, including Newfoundland. Although the engraving was made in 1612, the map was not published until the following year as an appendix to Voyages, Champlain’s 1613 account of his journeys.
From Leventhal Library:
Detached from: Les voyages du sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le roy en la marine. Paris : Iean Berjon, 1613.
"Faict len 1612."
"Avec privilege du roy."
Partly based on information supplied by Indians. Compare Burden, 160.
Relief shown pictorially.
Oriented with north at upper right.
Table showing declination of the sun at 9 locations and key to references A-T, V, X-Z, and [1]-21 in bottom margin.
Includes portrait (11 x 23 cm) of 4 Indian men of the Montaignais and Almonichicois tribes in native costume and scattered illustrations of native vegetation and wildlife; sea decorated with ships and marine wildlife.
Details the region surrounding the Saint Lawrence River Valley westward to the eastern end of Lake Erie; shows settlements and Indian villages.
From LAC:
In the fall of 1612, Samuel de Champlain had an engraving of his first detailed map of New France made in Paris. The map contained new geographic information, based on his own explorations from 1603 onward. The site of Montreal is clearly identified. Using information obtained from Aboriginal peoples, he was able to include previously uncharted areas, such as Lake Ontario and Niagara Falls. He also made use of other maps to depict certain regions, including Newfoundland. Although the engraving was made in 1612, the map was not published until the following year as an appendix to Voyages, Champlain’s 1613 account of his journeys.
Creator
Samuel de Champlain
Source
Norman B. Leventhal Map Library, BPL
Library & Archives Canada
https://thediscoverblog.com/2013/10/17/samuel-de-champlains-general-maps-of-new-france/
Library & Archives Canada
https://thediscoverblog.com/2013/10/17/samuel-de-champlains-general-maps-of-new-france/
Date
published 1613
Files
Collection
Reference
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
Cite As
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,” Mapping History, accessed May 6, 2024, http://maps.omeka.bucknell.edu/items/show/39.