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Printed map. At head of title, "The Dispatch Atlas". "E. Weller, Lithogr." "Drawn & engraved by T. Ettling". Two visual scales [63 mm=80 British miles] and [73 mm=80 geographical miles]. Written in black ink in lower right margin, "30". Probably taken from the same original copy as McMaster maps RMC_107348 and RMC_107349. Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 259, p. 80: "In Cassell's General Atlas (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin [1860]), plate [48]...shows cos, railways finished and unfinished, roads including some colonization roads and relief, railways in progress: Belleville-Peterborough-Penetanguishene, Arnprior-Pembroke, part of Hamilton-Pt Dover, Niagara Falls-Simcoe-St Thomas-Amherstburg, Lindsay-Beaverton." Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.

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Upper Canada
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Printed map. At head of title, "The Dispatch Atlas". "E. Weller, Lithogr." "Drawn & engraved by T. Ettling". Two visual scales [63 mm=80 British miles] and [73 mm=80 geographical miles]. Written in black ink in lower right margin, "30". Probably taken from the same original copy as McMaster maps RMC_107348 and RMC_107349. Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 259, p. 80: "In Cassell's General Atlas (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin [1860]), plate [48]...shows cos, railways finished and unfinished, roads including some colonization roads and relief, railways in progress: Belleville-Peterborough-Penetanguishene, Arnprior-Pembroke, part of Hamilton-Pt Dover, Niagara Falls-Simcoe-St Thomas-Amherstburg, Lindsay-Beaverton." Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.
Publisher
Contributor
Ettling, Theodor, 1823-, Weller, Edward, -1884
Date
1860
Type
Format
map, [1:2,000,000 approximately]
Identifier
macrepo:27008, local: RMC_107346
Source
Language
eng
Relation
Coverage
Ontario, Great Lakes Region (North America), North America--Canada--Great Lakes Region
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