Map of North America
PublicNorth America. Map showing lands belonging to Great Britain, Russia, the United States of America, and the Hudson's Bay Company. Scale: 1 inch to about 180 miles. By J Arrowsmith; ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 31 July and 11 August, 1857. Henry Hansard, Printer. MS additions, coloured, highlighting boundaries and showing the southern limits of barren ground and ground with frozen subsoil, the northern limit of original prairie, and the sites of Roman Catholic and Protestant mission stations; MS reference table. In upper right margin: Select Committee--on the Hudson's Bay Company. In lower margin: No.s 224. 260. (Sess. 2.). Relief shown by hachures. Text at top of map: map no. 1: to accompany report on the interior of B. N. America by Capt. Blakiston, R.A.
- In Collection:
- 1 sheet
- 60.10867, -113.64258
- 64.00028, -150.00028
- 65N-35N/130W-70W
- 46.07323, -100.54688
- 1857 to 1859
- 1:11,404,800
- Early BC Maps Collection
- National Archives of the UK
- Funded by a Canadian Council of Archives, Archival Community Digitization Program.
- April 12, 2010
- 600 dpi jpg
- Watermarks added to images by KM, JF, and CDW. Metadata by JTP May 4, 2010.
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