Partie occidentale du Canada, contenant les cinq Grands Lacs, avec les pays circonvoisins

Description

Printed map. Cartographer uncertain, probably Rigobert Bonne. Four visual scales, [60 mm=278 English statute miles]. "Longitude du meridien de l'isle de Fer" in upper margin; "longitude du meridien de Paris" in lower margin. Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 173, pp. 37-38: "Covers the area from James Bay to Fort Duquesne and from Lake Ontario to the Great Plains. Shows frontier forts and missions, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers and lakes, and relief. 'Liv. XV, XVI, XVII' and 'No. 45' in upper margin." McMaster has another copy with slight variations; see RMC_107245. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.