Printed map. Likely engraved by Thomas Jefferys. Visual scale [114 mm=30 nautic leagues]. "Printed ... as the Act directs, 1 August, 1786." Includes chart, "Astronomical observations on which this chart is grounded". Verso numbered, "10". Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 258, p. 57: "2d State. In North-American pilot. plate 11. Imprint altered: Date of imprint advanced to 1786 and the name John Bennett deleted." Kenneth Kershaw's Early Printed Maps of Canada, volume II, describes a "third state" map with a variation of the imprint with "as the Act directs, 25th. March 1786" (entry 599, p. 224).
Printed map. Cartographer uncertain, probably Laurie & Whittle. Visual scale. Fourth state. In lower right margin, "T. Jefferys Sculp." In upper right margin, "XII". Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, volume II, entry 607, p. 232: "Published in: source not located... The Laurie & Whittle imprint has been deleted but 'T Jefferys Sculp.', and top right 'XII', are retained."
Printed map. "Improv'd from the late Survey of Captain Holland. Published as the Act direct April 6, 1775." Visual scale [30 mm=5 miles]. Includes inset, [Location map, Gulf of St. Laurence]. Includes 2 tables: "The Contents of the Respective Divisions of the Island of St. John" and "A List of Lots and Proprietors Names". In upper right margin, "XIII." Described in Catalogue of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada, H12/204 - 1775, volume 1, p. 284: "The map was originally drawn in 1775 by A. Dury. The original map had a slightly different title ("A plan of the Island of...") and lacked the list of proprietors."
Printed map. "By Captain Carver, and other officers, in His Majesty's service." "Printed ... as the Act directs 16th. February 1776." Three visual scales [72 mm=100 British miles]. Prime meridian: London. Includes 4 inset maps: A particular survey of the Isles of Montreal; The City of Quebec; Course of the River St. Laurence, from la Valterie to Quebec, on a larger scale; and, Plan of Montreal, or Villemarie. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.
Printed map. Second state. "Par le S. Bellin ingenieur de la marine...." "Ire. feuille depuis Quebec jusqu'a Matane et Riviere des Outardes, 1761". Visual scales. Includes 2 insets: "Vue de terres du sud pour passer la traverse en remontant le fleuve" and "Partie du cours du fleuve de Saint Laurent depuis Quebec jusquau cap aux Oyes" (32 x 86 cm). Seal in lower right corner has, "Depot de la marine". In upper right margin, "No. 63." In lower right margin, "Prix. trente sols."
Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, Volume II, entry 651, p. 265: "Published in: Hydrographie Francoise Recueil des Cartes Marines /... / Par feu M. Bellin, Ingenieur Hydrographe de Depot et autrea [1791]."
Visual scales. "Dressée au Depost des cartes et plans de la marine, pour le Service des vaisseaux du roy, par ordre de M. Berryer, ministre et secretaire d'etat ayant le Département de la marine. Par le S. Bellin ingenieur de la marine &c." In upper right margin, "No. 64." Includes 4 inset maps: Vue des terres entre la pointe des Montspelés et celle de Manicouagan étant au point du relevement marqué A; Baye des Sept Isles, copieé sur la carte du fleuve S. Laurent que les Anglois, ont publieé en 1760; Les Sept Isles, telles qu'elles ont eté leveés par Mr. Deshayes en 1686; Rade et Isles du Mingan, suivant la carte angloise de 1760, sur la même echelle que la carte francoise du 1761. Second state. Seal in lower right corner reads, Depot de la Marine. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, volume II, entry 656, p. 274: "Published in: Hydrographie Francoise Recueil des Cartes Marines /... / Par feu M. Bellin, Ingenieur Hydrographe de Depot et autrea."
Visual scales. "Dressée au Depost des cartes et plans de la marine, pour le Service des vaisseaux française par ordre de M. Berryer ministre et secrétaire d'etat ayant le Département de la marine. Par le S. Bellin ingénieur de la marine &c. IIe feuille 1761." Includes insets: Vue des terres entre la Pointe des Montspelés et celle de Manicouagan étant au Point du Relevement marqué A.; Baye des Sept Isles, copieé sur la Carte du Fleuve S. Laurent que les Anglois, ont publieé en 1760; Les Sept Isles, telles qu'elles ont eté Leveés par Mr. Deshayes en 1686; Rade et Isles du Mingan, suivant la carte Angloise de 1760, sur la même echelle que la Carte Francoise du 1761. In upper right margin, "No. 64". Seal in lower right corner has: R.F. Depot de la marine. Third state. Differs from second state, RMC_3847, in title ("Vaisseaux Francais" cf "Vaisseaux du Roy") and in price. Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, volume II, entry 657, p. 274: "Published in: Hydrographie Francoise Recueil des Cartes Marines /... / Par feu M. Bellin, Ingenieur Hydrographe de Depot et autrea."
Printed map. "Par M.B. Ing. de la Me. 1757." Visual scale, "echelle de lieues communes de France." Prime meridian: Paris. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.
Printed map. Overprinted in blue ink in the upper margin, "Compliments of McLeod Stewart" and "The Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal Company." Possibly from company prospectus, The Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal Company, incorporated by Act of Parliament of the Dominion of Canada..., 1895. Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.
Visual scale. In upper, right margin: Tome I, No. 15. Cartographer uncertain, probably Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Described in Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, entry 584, p. 123: "In his [Bellin's] Petit Atlas maritime, t.1, plate 15. Shows Fort Mingan, rocks, shoals, soundings, and islands in the bay, and relief. 'Tome I, No. 15' in upper right margin."
Printed map. "By Captn. W.F.W. Owen R.N. 1816". "Published as the Act directs 11th May 1818 by Willm. James." "J. Walker Sculpt." Visual scale. Includes inset maps: Plan of Kingston Harbour, Plate IV and [Horse Island, Navy Point & Sackets Harbour with Fort Tomkins], Plate III. At head of main map, "Plate II." In upper right margin, "To face p. 131 Vol. 1st." Described in Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada 1780-1867, entry 468, p. 133: "In William James, A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War (London: Printed for the author 1818), opp 131...; based on the ms [manuscript] survey...; soundings; a few roads, relief, marshes."
Manuscript map. "By Lieut: James Hobb". Sheet includes map showing a section of the St. Lawrence from the Isle of Orleans east to Coudre Island, and eight views of the shoreline. Title and notes are handwritten in red ink. The map and views are drawn in black ink. Handwritten in ink on verso, "Some observations & sketches of the River St. Lawrence made in the year 1765 by Lieut. Jas. Hobb."
"Dréssée au Dépôt des cartes plans et journaux de la marine pour le service des vaisseaux du roy. Par ordre de M Rouille chr. comte de Jouy &a. ministre et secretaire d'Etat ayant le Département de la Marine". "A Paris chez Mr. Bellin ingenieur de la marine rue du Doyenne du côté de la rue St. Thomas du Louvre". Described in Catalogue of the National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada, H2/1102 - 1753, volume 11, p. 310: "This ... map covers the entire Gulf of St. Lawrence. Numerous place names are given; reefs, safe havens, soundings and the location of the fishing banks off Newfoundland are indicated. The map was first published in L'Hydrographie Francoise ... depuis 1737 jusqu'en 1763 par le S. Bellin ... [1737-1772], No. 2, no. 17."
Printed map. Visual scales. On lower, right corner of map, "Simpkins sc. 251 Strand". "Meridian of Quebec". Described in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, volume II, entry 681, p. 286.