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Autore: | Ruggles Richard I. <1923-> |
Titolo: | A country so interesting : the Hudson's Bay Company and two centuries of mapping, 1670-1870 / / Richard I. Ruggles |
Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1991 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) : maps |
Disciplina: | 912.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Cartography - Canada |
Soggetto geografico: | Canada Historical geography Maps |
Canada Historical geography Maps Catalogs | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-289) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Location Maps and Figures""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""Foreword to the Paperback Edition""; ""PART ONE: INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Mapping Policy and Records""; ""2 The Explorers and Map Makers""; ""3 Field and Office Methods and Equipment""; ""4 Company Procedures in the Operation of Policy""; ""PART TWO: INVESTIGATING A COUNTRY SO INTERESTING""; ""5 London Chart Makers, 1669 to the Late 1720's""; ""6 The Initiation of Company Mapping: The Late 1720's to 1754""; ""7 Mapping Rivers and Barren Grounds Inland, 1754-1778"" |
""8 Mapping Inland from the Bay and Over to Athabasca, 1778-1794""""9 Mapping to the Columbia and Behind the Eastmain, 1795-1821""; ""10 Mapping Rupert's Land, the Mackenzie Basin, and the Arctic Shore, 1821-1849""; ""11 Mapping West of the Mountains, 1821-1849""; ""12 Pemberton and the Colony of Vancouver's Island, 1849-1859""; ""13 Exploration and Mapping in the Northwest and the Establishment of Company Land Claims, 1849-1859""; ""14 Mapping Company Land Claims and Exploring Inland Routes, 1859-1870""; ""Afterword""; ""PART THREE: PLATES""; ""PART FOUR: CATALOGUES"" | |
""A Manuscript Maps (1670-1870) in the Hudson's Bay Company Archives"" ""B Hudson's Bay Company Manuscript Maps (1670-1870) in Archives Other than the Hudson's Bay Company Archives""; ""C Hudson's Bay Company Manuscript Maps (1670-1870) Not Located""; ""PART FIVE: APPENDICES, GLOSSARY, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX""; ""1 The Hudson's Bay Company""; ""2 General Characteristics of the Cartographic Records""; ""3 General Inventory of the Hudson's Bay Company Map Archives""; ""4 The Catalogues of the Hudson's Bay Company Cartographic Collection"" | |
""5 Procedure for Obtaining Latitude on Land by Measuring the Double Meridian Altitude of the Sun""" "6 Procedure for Obtaining Longitude by Using the Method of Lunar Distances""; ""7 Persons Who Prepared Hudson's Bay Company Maps or Charts, 1670-1870""; ""8 Hudson's Bay Company Employees or Other Non-Native Persons Who Provided Sketches or Descriptions for Maps Prepared by Peter Fidler""; ""9 Native Persons Who Provided Sketches or Descriptions for Maps Prepared by Peter Fidler and Philip Turnor""; ""10 Native Persons Who Drafted Maps""; ""Glossary""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | A vital part of A Country So Interesting are the annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company: 838 maps and 557 sketches. While most are in the Company's archives in Manitoba, Ruggles has tracked down maps in other collections, particularly in various libraries in London, England. Also included are sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and map details. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A country so interesting |
ISBN: | 1-299-48537-5 |
0-7735-6188-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824045603321 |
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