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North America (general)

A number of the sites in this page include maps of the separate regions of Canada and the United States. See also the David Rumsey collection; NOAA 'Historical Map and Chart Collection'; 'Historical Maps' from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin); and Rare Map Collection from the University of Georgia's Hargrett Library

+ online exhibitions

’North American Atlases’ (a chronological list of atlases of America, North America, the United States, separate US states or parts of them, and the West Indies, whose contents can be found, in high res., on the David Rumsey Map Collection site [for further details about this site see Large general sites]) {May, 2004}
North America (high res. images from the Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, University of Georgia Libraries)
North America. 'The Archive of Early American Images' (follow the access instructions [memorising the login and password], then search in one of various ways; selecting Subject: 'Geography, maps, city views and plans' produced 774 hits [at the launch in May 2005]; maximise the new window and then enlarge by stages to very high res.; providing access to early and important maps from the major research library for early Americana; but a slow-moving and awkward site - John Carter Brown Library) {May, 2005}
'North American Atlases' (a good selection, 1733-1979, captured in their entirety, and enlargeable to high res., arranged in chronological order - David Rumsey Collection) {March, 2010}
North America. 'Carlton D. "Buck" Weaver TransAllegheney Map Collection' (12 medium res. maps ranging in scope from Virginia to America - Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia) {June, 2006}
North America. ‘Charting America: maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and others’ (83 MS maps, enlargeable to high res. - New York Public Library) {December, 2016}
+ North America 'Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune' (describing and illustrating (with a selection of high res. scans) the charting of the eastern seaboard of North America after 1763, by Des Barres and others - a two-part exhibition at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, May-November 2013) {December, 2013}
North America. 'Cosmografías americanas. La imagen de América en la cartografía europea de los siglos XVI y XVII' (64 maps of America, North America, South America, and various regions of America; to bring up a slow-loading, high res. pdf image click 'Haga clic aquí con el botón derecho' [clicking on the thumbnail brings up a medium res. version] - Memoria Chilena) {January, 2006}
North America. 'France in America' (in English and French; select Maps for good selections of high res. MrSID images from the Library of Congress's Rochambeau Collection (related to French involvement in the American War of Independence) [on which see also another version] and the Geography & Maps Division, and nine enlargeable images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France's Cartes et Plans department and the Collection du Service hydrographique de la Marine - a search for 'map' retrieved 155 items) {May, 2005}
North America - France. 'Mapping the French Empire in North America' (low to medium res., black and white, images illustrating 'a Virtual Exhibit based on selections from Buisseret, David. Mapping the French Empire in North America: An Interpretive Guide to the Exhibition Mounted at the Newberry Library on the Occasion of the 17th Annual Conference of the French Colonial Historical Society (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1991)' - Newberry Library, Chicago) {January, 2008}
'North America Historical Maps' (10 [original not 'historical'] maps, enlargeable to high res. via LizardTech ExpressView Plugin - Yale University Library) {November, 2007}
North America. 'Historical Maps Database' (an index to more than 1000 maps, with its emphasis on Georgia and North America, in the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries) {May, 2010}
North America. 'Historical maps online' (a selection of 'city plans' and 'maps', from different online collections and in differing resolutions, covering North America as a whole or specific areas of Canada and the USA, 17th to 20th century - Roots & Routes) {July, 2005}
North America. 'Historical Maps Online' (409 high res. MrSID images; select from a browsing list, or via geographical sections (concentrating on Illinois and the Northwest Territory but also covering other parts of the US, Canada, Mexico, South America, etc.) - the University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Press, with a selection from the Newberry Library) {March, 2004}
North America. ‘Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer, La Quatrieme Partie’ (the section of Johannes Van Keulen’s world sea atlas covering the east coast of North America and the West Indies, including 23 charts, enlargeable to very high res. - Barry Lawrence Ruderman) {March, 2021}
+ North America. 'On the Map: the Seymour I. Schwartz Collection of North American Maps, 1500-1800' (an exhibition, with a number of enlargeable maps, in the Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, 2008-09) {April, 2009}
North America. 'Realms of Gold: a Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society' (equivalent to a 600-page book, this catalogue, preceded by an introduction, by Murphy D. Smith, 1991, comprises 1774 entries (over 1000 relating to North America) of which 52 are MSS and three globes, illustrated with 'more than 100 maps' (about 25 of them MSS) zoomable to very high res. in JPEG2000 format) {September, 2005}
North America. 'Scanned maps of North America' (ten very high res. images via Zoomify - Michigan State University) {August, 2009}

+ '1759: Britain's Year of Victories' (exhibition curated by Brian Leigh Dunnigan at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, featuring a number of enlargeable maps) {June, 2015}
'America, 1500 - 1800' ('several hundred maps', enlargeable to high res. - Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec) {October, 2011}
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 'Digital Images Online' (there appear to be at least 236 maps (mostly relating to N. America), enlargeable to medium res., but, despite the fact that there is a 'Genre/Form' for 'Maps' it does not seem possible to select all in that category - Yale University) {December, 2008}
Bermuda. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (the full text of John Smith’s work of 1624, with high res. scans of the title-page and four maps [‘Ould Virginia’, Virginia, Summer Isles (Bermuda), New England - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) {April, 2007}
Cod. 'In Cod We Trust: Fishing Grounds and National Ambitions in Early Maps of North America' (illustrated post by Lena Denis for the Library of Congress map blog, 2 May 2024) {August, 2024}
+ 'Cultural readings: colonization & print in the Americas' (a number of low res. maps of North America - University of Pennsylvania Library)
Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune (the sequence of 121 charts of the Atlantic coast of North America, enlargeable to very high res. - Library of Congress) {September, 2015}
Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune (search for 'Des Barres' for scans [zoomable in small sections to very high res.] of the entire Henry Newton Stevens collection, comprising 209 charts, with variants of each chart, view and text sheet [there are 1,078 'matches'] - National Maritime Museum) {November, 2006; revised April 2012}
'Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark' (an electcronic archive including '22 map images, and a geo-rectified cartographic database of 8 interactive maps'; the maps are enlargeable to very high res. and comprise general and regional maps of North America (1755-1811) - University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Virginia) {February, 2009}
+ 'Exploring the West from Monticello: a Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark' (a wide-ranging exhibition with medium res. images of North America and its regions - University of Virginia)
Faden's Ameri[c]an Atlas (19 of William Faden's collection of 33 maps and battle plans of the Revolutionary War, 1759-77, enlargeable via Zoomify to very high res.; for an introductory note by Lauren Coats, three essays by Joel Kovarsky and a bibliography see Here - Lehigh University Digital Library, Bethlehem, PA) {November, 2010}
+ Fortifications. 'The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th-Century America' (online version of the exhibition (October 2012-February 2013) at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, with some of the maps zoomable to high res.) {March, 2013}
'The George S. Parker Map Collection' (57 maps, enlargeable to very high res., including New France (29), Mexico (5), Florida (4) and 19th-century Wisconsin (19) - Wisconsin Historical Society) {January, 2011}
+ Great Lakes. 'Early Mapping of Michigan and the Great Lakes, 1744-1862' (a digital exhibit of 16 maps, from various acknowledged sources - Michigan State University Libraries, summer 2010) {June, 2010}
Great Lakes. 'Making Maps, Mapping History. 300 years of original maps: Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region' (32 maps, enlargeable to high res. with Zoomify; an exhibition held at the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March-June 2007; see also the 40-page pdf booklet) {September, 2008}
Great Lakes. 'The Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Seventeenth Century' (four high res. images, Mark Steuer - Voyageur Magazine, 1984)
Great Lakes. 'U.S. Lake Survey Online' (50 charts (rising to 76), 1852-82, enlargeable to high res. with Zoomify - Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin- Madison) {September, 2008}
Henry Popple's 'A map of the British Empire in North America', 1733 (general images and 20 high res. sectional details of the wall-map, from David Rumsey's site - 'Search' and enter Popple as 'Publication Author')
Hodsoll Collection (low to medium res. images of maps of N. America and Canada from the collection donated by Elmar Hodsoll of Toronto - McMaster University Library) {July, 2003}
+ Indian. 'Native American History at the Clements Library' ('an expanded version of the physical exhibit American Encounters, formerly on display at the William L. Clements Library', illustrated with medium res. maps) {October, 2011}
John Carter Brown Library. 'JCB Map Collection' (an important collection of 1,362 maps, enlargeable to high res., in a chronological browsing list, focusing on the world and the Americas) {November, 2011}
'Kaarten van de Atlantic World' (61 high res. maps, covering America, North America and sections of the eastern coast - National Archives, The Hague) {December, 2012}
+ 'Mapping Colonial America' (online exhibition, requiring Flash 6, exploring maps (1587 to 1782) from Colonial Williamsburg's collection, and including a zooming tool allowing a close look at map details) {February, 2004}
'Maps of the French and Indian War. From the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society' (14 maps, with pre-selected sections enlargeable to medium res.) {December, 2008}
Velasco Map. 'The Genesis of the United States - Alexander Brown 1890' (excerpts, and illustrations, from the book by the map's discoverer, and from Fite & Freeman's A Book of Old Maps Delineating American History (1928)) {March, 2006}
Velasco Map. 'Map of Atlantic Coast of North America, 1610 (also known as the "Velasco Map")' (and also: 'Color and/or modern reproductions of the "Velasco Map" - I' (the first of five gallery pages); both comprising text and comparative illustrations - Deborah Taylor-Pearce) {September, 2006}
'The W H Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps' (50 very high res. images of North America and Canada - McGill University Libraries). [See also here and here] {amended May, 2015}

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Canada

+ online exhibitions

'America, 1500 - 1800' ('several hundred maps', enlargeable to high res. - Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec) {October, 2011}
American Revolutionary War. Mapping the American Revolution and its era (Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
+ American Revolutionary War maps (high res. images)
+ 'An overview of cartography' (a small selection of maps of the world, N. America and Canada, selected by Edward Dahl - low to medium res.)
ArchiviaNet: On-line research tool (use Archives Search for a searchable database of about 4,000 high res. MrSID images, from the 16th century up to the 1980s, which can be searched for in a database, of approximately 50,000 early maps, plans and charts [further images will be added annually] - Library and Archives Canada) {September, 2003; amended November 2009; partly updated September 2017}
Arctic. ‘L’Apparition du Nord’ (a visual analysis and comparison of Gerard Mercator’s Septentrionalium Terrarum description (1595) - Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval) {February, 2018}
+ Arctic. 'The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture' (including one section illustrating and describing maps - 2009 exhibition at the Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine) {February, 2010}
+ Arctic. 'Frozen Ocean: Search for the North-West Passage' (illustrated with map images, zoomable to high res. - exhibition at Toronto Public Library, 2004) {November, 2005}
+ Arctic. ‘Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage’ (maps illustrate the exhibition sections; there is also a page with 12 other maps of the Arctic, 1528-1907, enlargeable to high res. - John Delaney, Princeton University Library, 2004) {May, 2005}
+ Arctic. ‘The Northwest Passage: Navigating Old Beliefs and New Realities’ (exhibition, illustrated with high res. scans, at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, September 2016-March 2017) {November, 2017}
Arctic. ‘Northwest Passages: Pre-factual cartography’ (medium res. illustrations and comments (by Kevin McGwin) relating to the exhibition at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, curated by Ian Fowler) {October, 2016}
Arctic. 'The search for a Northwest passage' ('a selection of books, maps and manuscripts on the Northwest Passage in the British Library', arranged in four historical sections, each comprising brief notes and medium res. illustrations, with a Bibliography - British Library, Online Gallery) {July, 2010}
+ Arctic. ‘To the Ends of the Earth... and Back: Selections from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection’ (exhibition, illustrated with high res. scans, at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, September 2013-February 2014) {November, 2017}
Arctic. 'The U.S.S. Jeannette' (about the American Expedition to the Arctic in 1879 - an illustrated post by Stuart Ackland for the Bodleian Map Room blog, 11 April 2024) {August, 2024}
'The Barren Lands. J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894' (covering the Nunavut region and northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan - over 40 high res., zoomable MrSID maps: 'Browse the Collection', selecting 'Maps' (which produces a list), select an item, then 'View Item Record', clicking on the 'All Pages' link - University of Toronto) {March, 2002}
+ ‘Bloodless Battles and Neverending Negotiations: Maine's Nineteenth Century Boundary Dispute’ (select this title for an online exhibit, illustrated with maps, enlargeable to high res., dealing with border disputes in the period 1798-1842) {August, 2017}
British Columbia Archives. 'Maps'
British Columbia. Victoria (fire insurance plans of 1895-1916, enlargeable to high res. - University of Victoria) {January, 2012}
British Columbia. Maps (high res. scans of maps of Victoria City, Nanaimo and Vancouver Island from 1894 - viHistory) {January, 2012}
+ 'Canada at Scale': Maps of our History (high res. images from the Library and Archives Canada)
Canadian Cities: Bird's Eye Views (12 low res. views of the late 19th and early 20th centuries - Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives) {August, 2003}
‘Canadian Maps’ (a high res. selection of 20th century maps, mostly of Saskatchewan - Julia Adamson) {October, 2004}
Canadian prairies. University of Calgary. ‘Historical Maps’ (‘focused primarily on the western Canadian prairies’) {March, 2019}
'The Canadian West. Maps' (a selection of medium res. images - Library and Archives Canada) {May, 2005}
Canadiana (nearly 22,000 Canadian maps digitized from the 1:50,000 scale National Topographic Series¸ enlargeable to high res.) {September, 2022}
Cartes historiques canadiennes (medium res. images from the Atlas of Canada No.29. Origins of the People, 1901) {April, 2001}
'Cartes marines anciennes' (select the section 'Amériques' for eleven maps and charts, viewable in high res. via the 'Taille' link [most of the enlargement options beneath the thumbnail do not work]; see also 'Cartes anciennes diverses' - reproduced under licence from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) by Jacques Zan) {November, 2005}
'Centre for Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Maps' (173 maps, of Newfoundland and Labrador, enlargeable to very high res. - Digital Archives Initiative, Memorial University of Newfoundland) {September, 2010}
Champlain. ‘Présentation de la carte de la Nouvelle-France produite par Samuel de Champlain en 1632’ (YouTube presentation by Stefano Biondo, Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval) {February, 2018}
+ 'David Thompson: Map Maker, Explorer and Visionary' (online exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of his death, including an illustrated section with maps (enlargeable to high res.), 'North America's Greatest Geographer' - Archives of Ontario) {June, 2008}
'Digitization of cartographic materials: National Archives of Canada' (a paper presented to IFLA in August 2001 - a detailed analysis of activities in Canada by Betty Kidd, in Inspel 36 (2002) 1, pp. 53-66) {January, 2004}
'Early Cartography of Newfoundland and Labrador' (low res. images)
'Examples of Canadian Topographic Maps' (select: 'Maps & Data'; 'Sample Maps' for 12 slow-loading examples, 1892-2002 - University of Northern British Columbia, Gislab) {November, 2003}
Great Lakes see under North America above
Halifax. ‘Reference maps and plans’ (enlargeable to high res. - Halifax Municipal Archives) {May, 2023}
Hodsoll Collection (low to medium res. images of maps of N. America and Canada from the collection donated by Elmar Hodsoll of Toronto - McMaster University Library) {July, 2003}
'Images Canada' (searching for map brought up 345 items, not all maps, viewable as low res. images - National Library of Canada) {January, 2004}
Indian Reserves - Western Canada (127 high res. MrSID images of MS and printed maps - Library and Archives Canada) {December, 2004}
Indigenous Peoples. ‘First Nation's Mapping of Canada: Ochagach's 1730 Map’ (an illustrated and explanatory note of a sketch map of a route between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Lake Winnipeg, made for La Vérendrye by a First Nations Cree; for more on this see History of Cartography 2:3, pp.144-6) {April, 2018}
Indigenous Peoples. 'Pan Inuit Trails Atlas' (showing how the Canadian Arctic has long been explored and mapped by the Inuit people - 'The Northwest Passage and the construction of Inuit pan-Arctic identities' project) {July, 2014}
'In search of your Canadian past: the Canadian County Atlas Digital Project' (searchable database, based on 'Primary Sources' (1874-1881), allowing searching of about 40 county atlases by 'People' or 'Maps')
North American Indian Map Pages (lists over 400 North American map sites [mostly reconstructed maps] - Phil Konstantin) {December, 2001; amended February 2010}
'Looking at Old Maps: the World Through the Eyes of Early Mapmakers' (introductory text, focussing on Canada but with maps of the world etc., illustrated with 11 high res. MrSID scans - Jeffrey Murray, Library and Archives Canada) {September, 2006}
Manitoba. 'Historical Highway Maps of Manitoba' (scans from 1926 onwards; the 'low resolution' versions enlarge fairly well - Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation) {April, 2015}
'Manitoba Historical Maps' ( 1,073 images [material is still being added regularly], available in various sizes, on flickr) {November, 2009}
Maps of the French and Indian War (14 enlargeable high res. maps of eastern North America, Canada and Havana (select from the Thumbnail Gallery) - Massachusetts Historical Society) {May, 2002}
Montreal. 'Liste des principales cartes utiles à la recherche pour la ville de Montréal' (a selection from 1801 onwards, enlargeable to high res. - Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec) {October, 2011}
Montreal. ‘These Fascinating Vintage Maps Of Montreal Show How Far The City Has Come (Photos)’ (a selection from 1843 to 2019 – MTL Blog, 23 October 2019) {October, 2019}
New Brunswick. ' Manuscript maps that were assembled by Egbert Benson and sent in 1802 to Rufus King, United States minister to Great Britain' ('in order to facilitate negotiations over disputed international boundary between Maine and New Brunswick'; four maps, enlargeable to high res., with accompanying texts - Library of Congress) {July, 2010}
New Brunswick. The Upper St. John River Valley. 'Historical Maps' (a selection of fairly high res. 19th century maps, covering Northern Aroostook County, Maine and Madawaska & Victoria Counties, New Brunswick) {May, 2005}
'New Digitized Content Online: British Admiralty Charts of Canadian Waters' (clicking on the 'Digitized Documents' link leads to 3,298 high res. JPEG2000 scans of navigation charts published by the Hydrographic Office of the British Admiralty ('over a 150-year period ending in the mid-20th century') - Library and Archives Canada) {November, 2009}
Newfoundland. 'Digitized Maps' (121 'maps and charts from the pre-1900 period' [out of 350], enlargeable via Zoomify to high res. - Memorial University - Centre for Newfoundland Studies) {January, 2008}
'Newfoundland and Labrador Historic Map Archive' (four, high res. images)
‘The New World Atlas and Gazetteer’ (New York, 1922) (high res. maps, covering (mostly) Canada and the USA - Julia Adamson) {October, 2004}
Nouvelle-France: Horizons Nouveaux, Histoire d'une terre française en Amérique / New France: New Horizons; on French soil in America (a virtual and growing exhibition, in French and (partly) English, supposedly including 1000 cartographic images [out of the present total of '1 million', which is projected to grow to 2 million by 2005] - although the introduction mentions '350 archival documents' and a search under 'carte' produced 242 hits - accessed via Adobe SVG Viewer plugin, with Internet Explorer (and extensive use of distracting Flash), celebrating the foundation of French Canada in 1604, a collaboration between collections in Canada and France) {November, 2003}
Nova Scotia. 'Historical Maps of Nova Scotia' (55 maps [originals, not historical reconstructions] from 1613, enlargeable to high res. via Zoomify - Nova Scotia Archives) {April, 2011}
Nova Scotia Maps & Mapping Resources (see ‘Historic Nova Scotia Maps’ for some links – Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia) {March, 2016}
Nova Scotia. ‘NSCC Walter K. Morrison Special Collection‘ (400 maps (out of 2,500) so far digitized, enlargeable to high res., ‘focused on the early mapping of Atlantic Canada and specifically Nova Scotia’; see also Shining new light on old maps of Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Community College, Lawrencetown) {May, 2016; updated January 2017}
Nova Scotia. 'Woolford's Surveys: The Roads from Halifax to Windsor and Truro, 1817-18' (17 sheets, zoomable to high res. - Nova Scotia Archives) {April, 2011}
Ontario. ‘The Amateur Genealogist: Maps’ (a list of links for early maps of Ontario and Toronto by Fraser Dunford, 19 September 2016) {October, 2016}
Ontario. 'The Changing Shape of Ontario: A Guide to Boundaries, Names and Regional Governments' (mostly historical maps but including a series of 1951 county maps and 'Sources of Information' about boundary history - online exhibition from the archives of Ontario {February, 2006}
Ontario. ‘Historical Maps of Northumberland County’ (a few maps in varying resolution - Coburg District Collegiate Institute) {February, 2005}
Ontario. ‘Historical topographic map digitization project’ (over 1000 maps, enlargeable in small sections - Ontario Council of University Libraries) {April, 2017}
Ontario - London. 'Fire Insurance Plan Holdings' (sets of the 1907and 1915 plans, enlargeable to high res. with Zoomify - Serge A. Sauer Map Library, University of Western Ontario) {January, 2009}
Panoramic Maps. 'American Panoramic Artists and Publishers' (Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
Panoramic maps, 1847-1929 ('American Memory') (Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details - covering B.C., Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec)
Prince Edward Island. 'Island Imagined' ('approximately 1000 Prince Edward Island maps, atlases, and gazetteers have been digitized and enhanced with metadata'; images enlargeable to high res. - Public Archives and Records Office and the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation) {April, 2011}
Prince Edward Island (a small selection of maps, 1744-1878, some in high res. - The Island Register) {April, 2005}
Québec. 'Maps and Plans' (leading to Collection numérique Cartes et plans, providing access to over 12,263 cartographic documents relating to Québec, some from the city of Montréal archives, zoomable to very high res.; see a note on recent acquisitions (November 2012) - revised site of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec). [Also here]. {October, 2007, updated January 2015}
Quebec. 'Plans de villes et villages du Québec' ('several thousand' large-scale plans, mostly by Charles Goad - , enlargeable to high res. - Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec) {October, 2011}
Railways. ‘Maps of the Canada Southern Railway’ (a selection of high res. maps and plans) {April, 2005}
'Road maps' (a growing collection of high res. scans of pre-1963 maps from selected US states and Canadian provinces - Nick Beland) {August, 2010}
'Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Maps: 60 Years 1924-1984' (with links to other maps of western Canada) {August, 2005}
'Second Welland Canal' (a search for 'map' produced 53 images of MS maps, enlargeable to high res. - Special Collections and Archives, James A. Gibson Library, Brock University) {September, 2007}
'A Set of Plans and Forts in America' (Mary Ann Rocque, 1765) (high res. images of the 30 plans, covering forts in the northeastern US and Canada - Massachusetts Historical Society) {May, 2002}
Toronto. Atlas of the City of Toronto and Vicinity (a high res. joined-up version of the 30-sheet atlas, surveyed and compiled by W.S. and H.C. Boulton, 1858 - Nathan Ng) {August, 2013}
Toronto. ‘Goad’s atlas of the City of Toronto: Fire insurance maps from the Victorian era’ (high res. images from the editions of 1884-1924 – University of Toronto and Nathan Ng) {July, 2017}
Toronto Historical Map Viewer (10 alternative scans of city plans from 1818 onwards, enlargeable to high res.; see also Get Interactive With Historical Toronto Maps by Sarah Sweet, 18 February 2014) {March, 2014}
Toronto. 'Historical Maps of Toronto' (a good selection of original [not 'historical', i.e. modern reconstructions] maps (which can be browsed), enlargeable to high res., with commentary; see the links to a multi-edition selection of Goad plans and Fort York & Garrison Common Maps - a blog started by Nathan Ng in March 2013). [See also 'Tracing Toronto’s History Through Maps' (Jamie Bradburn on the Torontoist blog, 11 April 2013).] {April, 2013}
Toronto. 'Historical [sic, in this case] Maps of Toronto' (recent maps providing aids to the dating of earlier plans, focusing on annexation, initial grants and building dates - Nathan Ng, June 2014) {June, 2014}
Toronto. 'Scanned images of maps in the Map and Data Library' (apparently 456 high res. maps, from Canada and other parts of the world, downloadable in various formats - University of Toronto) {December, 2012}
Toronto. 'The Toronto Park Lot Project' ('an exploration of the earliest days of Toronto', providing four overlay maps (1802-51), also 'History Notes', in particular 'About early surveyors...' - Wendy Smith) {January, 2015}
Vancouver (‘over 2,100 maps and plans’; also a selection on flickr - see also British Columbia History Digitization Program at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia) {March, 2016}
'The W H Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps' (50 very high res. images of North America and Canada - McGill University Libraries). [See also here and here] {amended May, 2015}
Winnipeg. 'Manitoba Historical Maps' photostream' (250 medium res. maps (mostly second half 20th century) - Larry Laliberte, University of Manitoba Libraries) {July, 2008}
Yukon. ‘Race for the Gold: Map Games of the Klondike Gold Rush’ (an illustrated note by Julie Stoner for the Library of Congress maps blog, 7 May 2020) {May, 2020}

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