About "Map archive"
The stories behind historical maps from Library and Archives Canada's vast collection.
Edward A. Smith, A plan of the town, and adjacent fortifications, of, Kingston, 1816, Library and Archives Canada, Sir John Coape Sherbrooke fonds, e011081077. (Map courtesy Library and Archives Canada)
New map showing the line of the electric cable and other short lines of communication between the continents of Europe and America, Montreal, Roberts & Reinhold, 1866. (Library and Archives Canada, NMC 6906, e011154799)
Map: Carte des variations de la boussole et des vents généraux que l'on trouve dans les mers les plus fréquentées, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, 1765, Library and Archives Canada, NMC 27703, E0027703K
Map: Thomas Devine, Map of the Northwest Part of Canada Indian Territories & Hudson's Bay, 1857, Library and Archives Canada, NMC 48944, E011165527
Maclear & Co.'s Railway Map of Canada West. (Map courtesy Library and Archives Canada, n0002910)
Samuel Holland's famous map of Prince Edward Island. (Map: Samuel Holland, Frederick Haldimand, William Brown, Henry Mowat, A. Robinson, Thomas Wright & Thomas Watt, a plan of the island of St. John in the province of Nova Scotia..., 1765 [1931], Library and Archives Canada, NMC14389)
(Map: D.B. Street, Cyclists Road Map, showing all the main travelled roads, Towns, villages etc. between Toronto and London including the Niagara District, 1895, Library and Archives Canada, NMC43015)
Plan of Melville Island (Map: John G. Toler, Plan of Melville Island Situated in the North West Arm Near the Town of Halifax Nova Scotia, 1812, Library and Archives Canada, Sir John Coape Sherbrooke Fonds, e011073122.)
