Canada West formerly Upper Canada
Canada West formerly Upper Canada
In collections
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Title | Canada West formerly Upper Canada |
Name | Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. |
Type of Resource | cartographic |
Publisher Name | Published by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. |
Publisher Location | Philadelphia |
Date | [between 1850 and 1854] |
Language | eng |
Scale | [1:2,000,000 approximately] |
Form | map |
Note | 1 map : colour ; 32 x 40 cm, on sheet 33 x 41 cm. Small tears along edges. Margins have been trimmed to the map frame on all sides. Relief shown by hachures. |
Note | Printed map. "[Entered] according to act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., in the Clerk's office...." Visual scale [40 mm=50 miles]. Includes insets: The City of Toronto and its environs and Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara. Reprinted with same title and imprint in [1851] and [1854]. Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 96 (9a), p. 36: "L Superior inset deleted and two new insets added: 'THE CITY OF / TORONTO / AND ITS ENVIRONS' approx 1" to 3 miles, 'VICINITY / OF / THE FALLS / OF / NIAGARA' approx 1" to 9 miles; district names dropped; cos added: Bruce, Lambton, Huron, Perth, Waterloo, Halton, Wentworth, Peterborough, Renfrew; railways and proposed railways in Niagara inset." Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection. |
Subject Geographic | Ontario |
Subject Geographic | Great Lakes Region (North America) |
Geographic coverage | North America--Canada--Ontario--Great Lakes Region |
Identifier | RMC_107335 |
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