Antique Maps of Canada

[Canada]

Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Bayes d'Hudson et de Baffins, et Terre de Labrador.

Paris, 1749. 170 x 170mm. Original outline colour.

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[Maps of Canada and the Great Lakes]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie de L'Amérique Septent. qui comprend La Nouvelle France ou Le Canada.

Paris, 1755. 495 x 610mm. Coloured.
Detailed map of Canada, with a 'Supplement' of the Great Lakes. The title is on a blanket draped on a branch, with a canoe and a beaver.
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[Map of Canada]

Guillaume De L'Isle.
Carte du Canada Qui Comprend la Partie Septentrionale des Etats Unis d'Amerique.

Paris, Dezauche, 1783. 515 x 670mm. Original colour with additions.
A large and colourful map, published soon after the American Revolution.
DELI0021

[Detailed map of the Eastern Great Lakes]

John Arrowsmith.
Upper Canada &c.

London, 1846. Steel engraving, 630 x 530mm. Original colour. Splits in centrefolds repaired. Margin trimmed for atlas tabs as usual.
Detailed map of the area around Lakes Huron, Erie & Ontario, with Upper Canada, New York State, etc. Compiled for the 'London Atlas' by Arrowsmith, the foremost British cartographer of his generation.
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[Canada]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
British North America.

London: Charles Knight, 1852, Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 410mm. Original outline colour.
Canada map, with Alaska still marked Russian America.
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[Canada]

A.K. Johnston.
Canada.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1856. Steel engraving, 505 x 615mm. Original colour.
Large and detailed map.
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[Canada]

George Philip
Canda, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick &c.

Liverpool, 1856. Steel engraving, 520 x 600mm. Original colour.
Large and detailed map of Canada in fine colour, with an inset of Newfoundland.
PHIL0005

[Map of Hudson's Bay]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de La Baye de Hudson.

Paris, 1757. 230 x 325mm. Coloured.
Hudson's Bay & Labrador, marking the places found by the early English expeditions trying to find the North West Passage.
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[Hudson's Bay map with Middleton & Ellis routes]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Parties du Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Suivant les Voyages de Middleton et d'Ellis en 1742 et 1746.

Paris, c.1753. 220 x 290mm. Coloured.
Hudson's Bay, marking the routes of Middleton & Ellis in search of the North-West Passage.
BELL0029

[Map of Hudson and Baffin Bay]

Rigobert Bonne.
Partie de L'Amerique Septentrionale...

Paris, Lattré, 1772. 325 x 465mm. Original colour.
Northern Canada, marking Belle Isle, Baffin & Hudson Bays and Greenland. The western tributaries of the Hudson Bay were still regarded as the most likely North West Passage.
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[Map of Hudson's Bay]

Antonio Zatta.
La Baja D'Hudson, Terra di Labrador e Groenlandia con le Isole Adiacenti.

Venice, 1778. 320 x 410mm. Original colour.
Hudson's Bay and southern Greenland, with 'Michinipi', the supposed entrance to Zatta's North West passage.
ZATT0068

[Early map of Newfoundland and Canada]

Petrus Bertius.
Terra Nova.

Amsterdam, 1600. 90 x 125mm.
Newfoundland, with the coasts of Quebec and an unrecognisable Nova Scotia. Sable Island and the Grand Banks are marked, as is 'S.Brandan', the island supposedly discovered by an Irish monk in the sixth century. From Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'.
BERT0098

[Newfoundland Fishery settlement map]

Anonymous.
Newfoundland. Fisheries Commission. 1884-1885. Map annexed to the Arrangement of 14th November 1885 relative to the Newfoundland Fisheries in execution of Article 2 of the said Arrangement.

London: Dangerfield, c.1885. Lithograph, printed area 605 x 610mm. Original outline colour. Some faint age-toning from folds, one small split.
Map issued to illustrate a treaty dividing Newfoundland's fishing between the British & French. The north coast from Cape de Raye and Cape St Jean was reserved for the French fishing industry (but open to all non-fishery related industry).
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[Niagara Falls]

Anonymous.
Falls of Niagara, on the River S.t Lawrence in Canada.

c.1816. Engraving, 150 x 190mm.
A view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian shore.
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[Map of Nova Scotia]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Acadie, Isle Royale, et Pais Voisins.

Paris, c.1760. 220 x 340mm.
Nova Scotia.
BELL0055

[Nova Scotia]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
North America Sheet I. Nova Scotia with Part of New Brunswick and Lower Canada.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1832. Steel engraving, printed area 400 x 320mm. Original outline colour.
Map of Nova Scotia and Lower Canada.
SDUK0041

[Uncommon version of Bellin's plan of Quebec]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Quebec.

Paris, 1764. 230 x 365mm. Coloured.
The uncommon larger version of Bellin's plan of Quebec, only issued this one time. Published only five years after the loss of the city to the British under Wolfe, it makes no reference to the defeat.
BELL0145

[Quebec]

Antonio Zatta.
La Partie Occidentale della Nuova Francia o Canada.

Venice, 1778. 330 x 440mm. Original colour.
One sheet of a 12-sheet map of North America, showing Quebec between Montreal and James Bay, much occupied by the Six Nations Tribes, including the modern Parc de la Verendrye.
ZATT0043

[View of Niagara Falls.]

John Tallis.
A Distant View of the Falls of Niagara.

London: J.F. Tallis, c.1851. Steel-engraving, Sheet 180 x 270mm.
A view of the falls with a native American looking on. The decorative borders have two scenes of Major André being arrested and executed as a spy.
TALL0061

[Map of St Lawrence Gulf, Canada]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte du Golphe de St Laurent et Pays Voisins.

Paris, 1754. 230 x 370mm. Coloured.
The Gulf of the St Lawrence, with Newfoundland.
BELL0073

[Map of the St Lawrence River]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Suite du Cours du Fleuve de St Laurent Depuis Quebec jusqu'au Lac Ontario..

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 300mm. Coloured.
The St Lawrence From Quebec to Lake Ontario, showing Montreal.
BELL0074

[The mouth of the St Lawrence River]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte du Cours du Fleuve de St Laurent Depuis son Embouchure jusqu'au dessus de Quebec.

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 310mm. Coloured.
The St Lawrence inland to Quebec.
BELL0075

[View of St Pierre, Canada]

Cassini.
Vue de la Rade de L'Isle de St. Pierre proche de Terre neuve.

Paris? c.1780. 225 x 385mm. Binding folds flattened. Small scuffed area on print surface.
A view of the French Settlement on the island of St Pierre, just south of Grand Bank on Newfoundland. It remains a French foothold in North America.
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