Category Archives: Map

Pre-emptor’s map Fort George 3A 1923

Colour-coded map depicting lands surveyed as alienated, reserved, Statutory Timber Lands, B.C. Land Settlement Board Area, or open for pre-emption. Depicts land districts, land recording divisions, communities, game reserves, bodies of water, transport routes, and communication lines.

Colour-coded map depicting lands surveyed as alienated, reserved, Statutory Timber Lands, B.C. Land Settlement Board Area, or open for pre-emption. Depicts land districts, land recording divisions, communities, game reserves, bodies of water, transport routes, and communication lines.

Northern British Columbia Archives

British Columbia Department of Lands
Honourable T. D. Pattullo, Minister
J. E. Umbach, Surveyor-General
Pre-Emptor’s Map — Fort George Sheet 1923

Colour-coded map depicting surveyed lands respectively open and closed to preemption. Depicts land recording divisions, game reserves, communities, bodies of water, and transport routes.

This map includes:
Dome Creek

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 5

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Five, Southwest

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Five, Southwest


Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Five, Southwest (detail)

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Five, Southwest (detail)

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Five, Southwest

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 4

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Four, East Central

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Four, East Central

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Four, East Central

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 3

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Three, West Central

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Three, West Central

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Three, West Central

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 2

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Two, Northeast

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet Two, Northeast

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet Two, Northeast

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park Sheet 1

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet One, Northwest

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Sheet One, Northwest

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915
Sheet One, Northwest

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Based on photographic surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S., in 1915

Map of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
Based on photographic surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S., in 1915
Whyte Museum

Map of the Central Part of Jasper Park Alberta
Department of the Interior Canada
From Photographic Surveys by M. P. Bridgland, D.L S. 1915


There is also a set of more detailed maps based on the 1915 survey led by Morrison Parsons Bridgland [1878–1948]:

Maps of Central Part of Jasper Park, Alberta.
Department of the Interior Canada, 1916
Sheet One, Northwest
Sheet Two, Northeast
Sheet Three, West Central
Sheet Four, East Central
Sheet Five, Southwest
Sheet Six, Southeast

References:

  • MacLaren, Ian S. Mapper of Mountains. M. P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930. University of Alberta Press, 2005. Google Books

David Thompson’s map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada 1814

Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada.David Thompson, 1814

Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada.David Thompson, 1814
Archives of Ontario

Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada (1814)
Archives of Ontario, I0030317, David Thompson fonds
Reference Code: F 443, R-C(U), AO 1541

Surveying for the North West Company, David Thompson [1770–1857] located the headwaters of the Mississippi River, crossed the Rocky Mountains and mapped the entire length of the Columbia River.

Thompson retired from the fur trade in 1812 and moved his family to Terrebonne near Montreal. He was given a special assignment to plot all the Company’s posts on a comprehensive map of the Canadian West using the astronomical observations he had carefully recorded.

Thompson’s map is approximately 213 centimetres (84″) high by 328 centimetres (129″) long. It gave an accurate depiction of the vast territory traversed by the fur trade and location of Company posts.

References:

  • Nesbit, Jack [1949–]. Mapmaker’s Eye: The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2006

James McEvoy’s 1900 map showing Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête-Jaune Cache

Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache. James McEvoy, 1900.

Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache. James McEvoy, 1900.
Natural Resources Canada


Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache. 
James McEvoy, 1900. (Detail of Yellowhead Pass to Tête Jaune Cache)

Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache.
James McEvoy, 1900. (Detail of Yellowhead Pass to Tête Jaune Cache)
Natural Resources Canada

James McEvoy [1862–1935] — Map showing the Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête-Jaune Cache, 1900.

In 1898 McEvoy surveyed the Athabasca River valley for about 240 kilometres east of the Yellowhead Pass, and down the Fraser River on the west side of the pass for another 120 kilometres.

The splendid report of James McEvoy, published by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1900, dealing with the geology and natural history resources of the country traversed by the Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête-Jaune Cache, contains the most comprehensive and reliable geographical information that has yet been published, and also contains the only geographical map published of that route on a sufficiently large scale to be of value.

Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945], 1912
References:

  • McEvoy, James [1862–1935]. Report on the geology and natural resources of the country traversed by the Yellowhead Pass route from Edmonton to Tête Jaune Cache comprising portions of Alberta and British Columbia. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada, 1900. Natural Resources Canada
  • McEvoy, James [1862–1935]. “Map Showing Yellowhead Pass Route From Edmonton To Tête-Jaune Cache.” (1900). Natural Resources Canada
  • Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The Alpine Club of Canada’s expedition to Jasper Park, Yellowhead Pass and Mount Robson region, 1911.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 4 (1912):9-80