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• Title:West Canada / the map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin ; the illustrations by H. Warren & engraved by Robt. Wallis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rapkin, John, active 1845-1851, cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Rapkin, John, active 1845-1851, engraver.
  Warren, H., illustrator.
  Wallis, Robert, 1794-1878, engraver.
  John Tallis & Company.
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : John Tallis and Company, [1851].
  
• In: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical. London, New York : John Tallis and Company. plate 67.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3460 1851 .R36
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: JV1025 .M377 v.1 (SP)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Spam.B925
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Canada, Eastern--Maps.
  Canada--Maps.
  Ontario--Maps.
  Québec (Province)--Maps.
  
• Description:Scale approximately: 1:2,700.000 (W 83°50'--W 73°30'/N 46°30'--N 41°30')
  1 map : illustrations, colored ; 24 x 32 cm.
  
• Summary:Engraved hand colored print with several illustrations, decorative borders, hand-coloured oulining of provincial, district, and county boundaries (in color) of Upper and Lower Canada, as well as a general outline of the Maritimes, and the Northeastern United States. Shows roads, townships, Erie Canal, cities, towns, forts, etc.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_120, see related maps mccormick_124 and mccormick_128.
  
• Notes:Relief shown in hachures.
  Plate not numbered.
  Insets (vignettes): Kingston, Niagara Falls, scenes of First Nations peoples, a beaver, and the seal of Upper Canada with inscription: "Victoria Dei Gratia Britanniar. REG F D, Sigill Prov. Canadae Superioris."
  Map possibly removed from the 1851 edition of: Martin, Robert Montgomery. Ed. Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical. London, New York: John Tallis and Company, plate 67.
  John Tallis and Company was a business name used from 1851 to 1854; cf. Winearls 166.