COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
08854
File Name:
08854-2
Call number:
Cabinet C674 / 1 Ms.
Map title:
Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale Depuis l'embouchûre de la Riviere St. Laurens jusques au Sein Mexique
Place of Publication:
[Montreal]
Publication date:
[ca. 1675-1682]
Map size height:
64.3 cm.
Map size width:
106.1 cm.
Item description:
manuscript, paper, mounted on cloth, colored
Geographical description:
Map of North America showing the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence and Mississippi rivers. Cartographic elements include compass roses, location of rivers, degrees of latitude and longitude.
References:
JCBAR 13:23-24; Harrisse, Notes sur la Nouvelle France, p. xxv and no. 241; Tucker, S.J., Indian villages of the Illinois country, Springfield, Ill., 1942, pl. VI
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
This map is unsigned, although historians attribute its creation to a military engineer in the service of Frontenac, governor-general of New France. The connection to Frontenac is assumed from the naming of the Mississippi River, "Riviere Buade," after the family name of Frontenac and in designating the surrounding area, "La Frontenacie." Furthermore, the name of the Arkansas River, "Riviere Bazire," refers to the Canadian merchant who supported Frontanac's scheme to construct a fort on Lake Ontario. Harrisse attributes the map to Hugues Randin de Buily who was involved in Frontenac's plan to build a fort on Lake Ontario. According to Jean Lelanglez much of the geographical information in this map was based on the expedition map of Louis Joliet, lost when the boat that Joliet was in overturned on the St. Lawrence River.Item was removed from the Atlas du Canada assembled by Henry Harrisse.
Normalized date:
1675
Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale Depuis l'embouchûre de la Riviere St. Laurens jusques a...
