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MapMap for the Clarification of Land Titles in New France, 1678.
Carte pour seruir à l'éclaircissement du Papier Terrier de la Nouvelle-France This large and beautiful map by Jean-Baptiste Franquelin (1651--after 1712), later the royal hydrographer in Quebec, shows the French presence in the Saint Lawrence valley and Atlantic Canada in 1678. For 20 years from the early 1670s, maps by Franquelin accompanied reports to France sent by the highest officials in its American territories. This map was dedicated to Jean-Baptise Colbert (1619-83), minister of finance...- Contributor: Franquelin, Jean-Baptiste
- Date: 1678-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapView of the Mission of Sault-Saint-Louis.
Vue de la Mission du Sault St Louis This drawing depicts the French mission to the Iroquois at Sault-Saint-Louis (present-day Caughnawaga or Kahnawake, near Montreal, Canada). Founded on the banks of the Saint Lawrence River in 1680, the mission was where the Jesuit Joseph-François Lafitau lived among the Iroquois for five years, from 1712 to 1717. Lafitau was educated in rhetoric and philosophy and steeped in theology and the classics. At age...- Date: 1730-01-01
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MapGeographical Map of New France Made by Mr. de Champlain of Saintonge, Ordinary Captain for the King's Navy.
Carte geographiqve de la Novvelle Franse faictte par le Sievr de Champlain Saint Tongois cappitaine ordinaire povr le Roy en la marine New France was born more than four centuries ago as a result of the determination and talents of Samuel de Champlain (1574--1635), a native of Saintonge, France. Champlain embarked for Canada from Honfleur on March 15, 1603, and reached Tadoussac after a 40-day Atlantic crossing. He first explored some 50--60 kilometers up the Saguenay River. He then traveled up the Saint Lawrence River to...- Contributor: Pelletier, David - Champlain, Samuel De
- Date: 1612-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Western Ocean and Part of Northern America Drawn up to Record the Travels in 1720 of Father Charlevoix of the Society of Jesus in Canada, Louisiana and Saint-Domingue.
Carte de l'océan occidental et partie de l'Amérique septentrionale dressée pour l'intelligence du journal du voyage que le R.P. de Charlevoix de la Compagnie de Jesus a fait en 1720 au Canada, à la Louisiane & à St Domingue Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix was a French Jesuit priest who made a voyage to America in 1720-22. He had already taught in Quebec in 1705-9 and then was recalled to France. He departed Rochefort for New France on July 2, 1720, and arrived in Quebec on September 23 of that year. From there, he traveled to Montreal, Ontario, Niagara Falls, and as far as Lake...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - Desbrulins, F.
- Date: 1744-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapAn Accurate Depiction of New France, 1657.
Novae Franciae Accurata Delineatio, 1657 This 1657 map, entitled Novae Franciae Accurata Delineatio (An accurate depiction of New France), is attributed to the Jesuit Francesco Bressani (1612-72), who was sent as a missionary to the Huron Indians in 1642. In 1653 he published in his native Italy an account of his stay in New France in which he announced the impending publication of a map, also based on his...- Contributor: Bressani, Francesco Giuseppe
- Date: 1657-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of Quebec City.
Plan de la ville de Québec Plan de la ville de Québec (Map of Quebec City) is a hand-drawn map created in 1727, which shows the Upper Town of Quebec City within and outside the city walls, and the Lower Town, near the confluence of the Saint Lawrence River and the Saint Charles River with its tidal flats. A compass wind rose is situated in the Saint Lawrence, on the...- Contributor: Chaussegros De Léry, Gaspard-Joseph
- Date: 1727-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Island of Newfoundland, 1689. This nautical map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence was drawn in 1689 by the Basque cartographer Pierre Detcheverry at Plaisance (present-day Placentia, Newfoundland, Canada), the French capital of Newfoundland, for Governor Antoine Parat. It contains many place-names in the Basque language and details the many anchorages along the coast between Newfoundland and Tadoussac (present-day Quebec). Along with the Portuguese, the Basques were early...
- Contributor: Detcheverry, Pierre
- Date: 1689-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages