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• Title:Imperial map of Canada and arctic regions of North America.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Edinburgh : Robert Caldwell, 1849.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3400 1849 .I53
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Canada--History--1841-1867--Sources.
  Canada--Maps.
  United States--Maps.
  Alaska--Maps.
  Arctic regions--Maps.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:15,000,000. English miles 69 to a degree.
  1 map ; colored ; 40. 5 x 53 cm. on sheet 44 x 55 cm.
  
• Summary:Hand coloured engraved map of Canada, The Arctic regions, the Northern United States, Russian Alaska, and Greenland. Depicts rivers, settlements, territories of First Nations peoples and borders of the time. Shows the extent of Rupertsland, as well as Upper and Lower Canada, Labrador, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Area that would become British Columbia is divided into New Norfolk, New Cromwell, New Hanover, and New Georgia (the southern portion of which would become Northern Washington State).
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_76
  
• Notes:Relief shown by hachures.
  Central crease suggests the map came from an atlas, yet to be determined.