Just how, and why, did Vancouver Island get onto the map? How was knowledge of our immediate geography acquired and recorded? With 130 maps, dating between 1593 and 1915, this cartographic history tells the story of how Vancouver Island and the surrounding area came to be mapped. The book shows local cartographic milestones, marking progress in our knowledge through the island’s rich—although comparatively short—recorded history. However, the maps, by themselves and without context, cannot tell the whole story. The accompanying text reveals the motives, constraints, agendas, and intrigues that underpin their making.--Publisher's description.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-222) and index
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- 912.711/2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Editor: Marlyn Horsdal"--Title page verso Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn-bc
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- 9781771510172 9781771510158
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- GA475.B7
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- L39 2013eb
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- 1 electronic text (232 pages)
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- Victoria, British Columbia
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Table of Contents
- The Land of hearTs deLighT 1
- Contents 7
- Foreword 9
- The norThwesT coasT of aMerica 9
- Introduction 11
- The of geography 11
- Chapter One 15
- Maps of Speculation and Myth 15
- VancouVer isLand Lies beTween LaTiTudes 15
- Chapter twO 21
- Maps of Mystery and Intrigue 21
- Chapter three 27
- First European Contact Spaniards Anchor at San Lorenzo 27
- Chapter FOur 33
- With Cook at Nootka 33
- Chapter Five 39
- Soft Gold Sea Otter Traders 39
- Chapter Six 47
- Imperial Flashpoint Nootka 1789 47
- The russians are coMing since 47
- Chapter Seven 55
- Exploration Will Resolve the Doubts 55
- Chapter eight 62
- No Place More Eligible Anglo-Hispanic Collaboration 62
- Chapter nine 71
- A Perfect Eden James Douglas Selects a New Fort 71
- Chapter ten 79
- Settling into Fort Victoria Doubts over Tenuous Tenure 79
- Chapter eleven 84
- In Free and Common Socage Colonization by Contract 84
- Chapter twelve 91
- Pemberton and Pearse Survey Vancouver Islands Southeastern Districts 91
- Chapter thirteen 107
- Explosive Growth Victoria Feels the Impact of the Gold Rush 107
- Chapter FOurteen 119
- The San Juan Dispute Cartographic Neglectand a Pig Almost Trigger a War 119
- Chapter FiFteen 125
- Navigating this Boisterous Neighbourhood George Richardss Hydrography 125
- Chapter Sixteen 137
- The Back of the World Vancouver Island under the Crown Colonial 137
- Chapter Seventeen 151
- The Vancouver Island Exploring Expeditions Brown Leech Meade and Buttle Head Inland 151
- The Man who sTepped ashore 151
- Chapter eighteen 162
- Canadas New Province To Celebrate Joseph Trutch Orders a Map 162
- Chapter nineteen 169
- The Two-Million-Acre Dowry The Esquimalt Nanaimo Railways Land Grant 169
- The 1871 TerMs of union 169
- Chapter twenty 181
- The Most Perfect Map Tom Kainss Campaigns 181
- Chapter twenty-One 195
- Vancouver Island by Land and Water Reverend William Bolton and Expeditions 195
- Chapter twenty-twO 203
- The New Century The Dominion Comes to the Rescue 203
- The firsT decade of The gsc bc us 203
- Chapter twenty-three 215
- A Sea of Mountains Strathcona Park 215
- The June 2 1910 ediTion en 215
- Afterword 221
- The expLoraTion and Mapping of 221
- Glossary 224
- Endnotes 226
- Bibliography 229
- List of Illustrations 231
- Index 236
- Acknowledgments 240
- Ls bc 240
