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MapCarte du Canada et de la Louisiane qui forment la Nouvelle France et des colonies angloises ou sont representez les pays contestez. Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 72 Appears in Homann Erben's Atlas Compendiarivs (1757 [i.e. 1757]) Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 651/2; 651/3; 651/4; 650/5
- Contributor: Daumont, Jean-Francois - Nolin, Jean Baptiste
- Date: 1756-01-01
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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
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MapLa Nouvelle France où Canada. Scale ca. 1:9,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Tome I, no. 4." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 112 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1764-01-01
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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
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MapPartie de l'Amérique septent? qui comprend la Nouvelle France ou le Canada, Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 61 From the author's Atlas universel. 1757 [i.e. 1758] Includes "Supplement pour les Lacs du Canada," ca. 1:5,500,000. On verso: [Plate no.] 98, Canada. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Robert De Vaugondy, Gilles - Haussard, C.
- Date: 1758-01-01
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MapPartie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 19 Covers the area from Lake Superior to Kaskaskia and from Delaware Bay to the Mississippi River. Shows a few towns, missions, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers and lakes, portages, and early place-names. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm) - Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapCarte geographiqve de la novvelle Franse Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and text. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4] p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Thoreau, Henry David - Champlain, Samuel De
- Date: 1850-01-01
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MapCarte des pays connus sous le nom de Canada, dans laquelle sont distinguées les possessions françoises, & angl? Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows British colonies as far south as the present state of North Carolina. Includes "Supplément pour l'isle de Terre-Neuve." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 15 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Robert De Vaugondy, Didier
- Date: 1753-01-01
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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
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MapPartie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec fleuve de St. Laurence, Scale ca. 1:1,100,000. Hand colored in yellow, pink, green, and brown. Relief shown pictorially. Two copies. Copy 1, "I. St. Jean" and "Isle Royale" outlined in pink. Copy 2, "I. St. Jean" and "Isle Royale" outlined in yellow. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 278 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Seutter, Albrecht Carl - Lotter, Tobias Conrad
- Date: 1756-01-01
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MapPartie orientale du Canada. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Text in French and German. From the author's Atlas général contenant le detail des quatre parties du monde principalement. [1762] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 32 Includes a table of comparative latitudes and longitudes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas - Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
- Date: 1762-01-01
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MapPartie occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou Canada. Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. "Longitude occidentale du meridien de Paris." Relief shown pictorially. Shows Great Lakes region. Appears in the Homann Erben Atlas compendiarivs. 1752 [i.e. 1755] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 774 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1755-01-01
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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
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MapPartie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada. Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 274 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Homann Erben (Firm) - Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapPartie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada. Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. "Longitude du meridien de l'isle de Fer." Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the Homann Erben Atlas compendiarivs. 1752 [i.e. 1755] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 273 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1755-01-01
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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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