A country so interesting : the Hudson's Bay Company and two centuries of mapping, 1670-1870 / / Richard I. Ruggles
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| Autore: |
Ruggles Richard I. <1923->
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| Titolo: |
A country so interesting : the Hudson's Bay Company and two centuries of mapping, 1670-1870 / / Richard I. Ruggles
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1991 |
| ©1991 | |
| 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"" | |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Rupert's Land Record Society Series