Main entry:

Hayes, Derek, 1947-

Title & Author:

Historical atlas of Canada : Canada's history illustrated with original maps / Derek Hayes.

Publication:

Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre : Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2002.

Description:

272 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 35 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Saint Brendan and other early nagivators -- The Norse Voyages -- Pre-Columbian apocryphal voyages -- Out of the mists -- Canada -- Early explorations of the Coasts of Canada, 1500-1527 -- Early French explorations -- Jacques Cartier -- the foundation of the French claim to Canada -- Early English attempts to find a northwest passage -- Probing the northern seas -- Early English colonization attempts -- Samuel de Champlain -- the mapmaker who founded New France -- The found of Montreal -- Jesuits and the fur trade -- French exploration to 1700 -- The defence of New France to 1713 -- The signeurial system -- The coming of the English -- The Hudson's Bay Company -- The British attempt to find the northwest passage in the Eighteenth Century -- The French fur trade empire -- France explores westwards -- The La Verendryes -- The fall of Louisbourg in 1745 -- Jacques-Nicola Bellin's atlas -- the founding of Halifax -- The Acadian deportation -- The battle for a continent -- the French and Indian war -- The fall of Quebec -- and an empire -- James Cook's maps of Eastern Canada -- James Murray's map -- Quebec under the British -- The American attack on Quebec -- Prince Edward Island -- The coastal surveys of Des Barres -- The demise of the Beothuk -- Defining Canada , 1783 -- The coming of the Loyalists -- Perceptions of the West -- An Inland journey -- Alexander Henry's great map of the West -- The maps of Peter Pond -- Alexander MacKenzie crosses the continent -- The Hudson's Bay Company moves inland -- The Hudson's Bay Company's great surveyors -- Philip turnor and Peter Fidler -- Native Maps -- The first mpa of the West Coast -- James Cook -- defining the width of Canada -- West Coast exploration and trade -- spanish exploration of the West Coast -- George Vancouver surveys the West coast -- Defining the West -- David Thompson -- Early Toronto -- A mere matter of marching -- the War of 1812 -- The Selkirk Grant and the Red River settlement -- Fixing the forty-ninth parallel boundary line -- The Rideau Canal -- The Canada Company -- Arctic exploration 1818-1859 -- Westward expansion of the fur trade -- The rebellions of 1837 and the United Province of Canada -- Linking the lakes -- Drawing the line -- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- The founding of Fort Victoria and the colony of Vancouver Island -- The forty-ninth parallel extends to the sea -- A pioneer road map of Canada -- British Columbia discovers gold and becomes a colony -- Henry Hind's expeditions -- The Palliser expedition -- The coming of the railway -- Confederation and the intercolonial railway -- The Riel Rebellion of 1869 -- Manitoba becomes the fifth Province -- British Columbia joins Confederation -- The North-West Rebellion, 1885 -- The Canadian Pacific Railway -- the settlement of the Prairies and the linking of a Nation -- Winnipeg -- gateway to the West -- Edmonton -- gateway to the North -- Calgary -- from police post to oil capital -- The discovery of oil -- The art of the Bird's Eye -- Vancouver -- pacific Terminus -- Ottawa -- the Nation's Capital -- Toronto in the Nineteenth Century -- Montreal after the fall of New France -- Gold in the Klondike -- The British Dominion -- The Canadian Arctic and the Northwest Passage achieved -- Fire insurance maps -- The boundary with Alaska -- The evolution of Provincial boundaries.

ISBN:

0295982772 (University of Washington Press)
9780295982779
1550549189 (Douglas & McIntyre)
9781550549188

Subject:

Discoveries in geography.
Historical geography.
Canada Historical geography Maps.
Canada Discovery and exploration Maps.
Canada.

Form/genre:

Historical maps.
Maps.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room atlas 226097
Call No.: G1116 .S1 G39 2002
Status: Available