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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-289) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 912.714/111
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773506780 9780773561885
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- R84 1991eb
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- 1 electronic text (xix, 300 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Location Maps and Figures 8
- Abbreviations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Foreword 12
- Foreword to the Paperback Edition 14
- PART ONE: INTROUDCTION 22
- 1 Mapping Policy and Records 24
- 2 The Explorers and Map Makers 31
- 3 Field and Office Methods and Equipment 35
- 4 Company Procedures in the Operation of Policy 39
- PART TWO: INVESTIGATING A COUNTRY SO INTERESTING 44
- 5 London Chart Makers, 1669 to the Late 1720s 46
- 6 The Initiation of Company Mapping: The Late 1720s to 1754 53
- 7 Mapping Rivers and Barren Grounds Inland, 1754-1778 58
- 8 Mapping Inland from the Bay and Over to Athabasca, 1778-1794 70
- 9 Mapping to the Columbia and Behind the Eastmain, 1795-1821 81
- 10 Mapping Rupert's Land, the Mackenzie Basin, and the Arctic Shore, 1821-1849 95
- 11 Mapping West of the Mountains, 1821-1849 108
- 12 Pemberton and the Colony of Vancouver's Island, 1849-1859 117
- 13 Exploration and Mapping in the Northwest and the Establishment of Company Land Claims, 1849-1859 127
- 14 Mapping Company Land Claims and Exploring Inland Routes, 1859-1870 131
- Afterword 139
- PART THREE: PLATES 144
- PART FOUR: CATALOGUES 212
- A Manuscript Maps (1670-1870) in the Hudson's Bay Company Archives 214
- B Hudson's Bay Company Manuscript Maps (1670-1870) in Archives Other than the Hudson's Bay Company Archives 258
- C Hudson's Bay Company Manuscript Maps (1670-1870) Not Located 262
- PART FIVE: APPENDICES, GLOSSARY, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX 278
- 1 The Hudson's Bay Company 280
- 2 General Characteristics of the Cartographic Records 282
- 3 General Inventory of the Hudson's Bay Company Map Archives 282
- 4 The Catalogues of the Hudson's Bay Company Cartographic Collection 282
- 5 Procedure for Obtaining Latitude on Land by Measuring the Double Meridian Altitude of the Sun 283
- 6 Procedure for Obtaining Longitude by Using the Method of Lunar Distances 284
- 7 Persons Who Prepared Hudson's Bay Company Maps or Charts, 1670-1870 285
- 8 Hudson's Bay Company Employees or Other Non-Native Persons Who Provided Sketches or Descriptions for Maps Prepared by Peter Fidler 287
- 9 Native Persons Who Provided Sketches or Descriptions for Maps Prepared by Peter Fidler and Philip Turnor 287
- 10 Native Persons Who Drafted Maps 287
- Glossary 288
- Notes 294
- Bibliography 308
- Index 311