Robert Lloyd Hunter collection

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
87-001/001(07) Civil Government of Canada, report from the Select Committee, 359 pages, Sir George Grey's copy File 1828
87-001/001(11) Memorial and Petition from the inhabitants of Red River settlement to Colonial Office re: treatment by Hudson's Bay Company File 1849
87-001/001(12) Exploration between Lake Superior and Red River Settlement. Papers of Colonial Office. Including four maps File prepared 1858, printed 1859
87-001/001(18) Papers relative to HBC Charter and license of trade, written in 1858-59, printed 1859 File 1858-1859
87-001/001(23) British Columbia Act to provide funds for the improvement of Victoria Harbour and communications with Esquimalt File 1861
87-001/001(25) McTavish, McGillivrays and Company, a handwritten copy of the partnership agreement established in 1814, 32 pages File 1814
87-001/001(40) Proclamation regarding the separation of the country into two provinces of Lower and Upper Canada and into counties, cities and towns and the issuing of writs for the first provincial parliament of Lower Canada File [1792?]
87-001/001(41) Hudson's Bay Company, report of the Select Committee, First Edition File 1857
87-001/001(43) Edmonton, N.W.T., Bulletin, original issues and reprints File 1880-1881
87-001/001(48) Clippings: Prairies File
87-001/001(49) Clippings: Canada General File
87-001/001(52) Letter from Sir George Simpson to Hon. John Ross, regarding Hudson's Bay Company and Indigenous populations File 12 Dec. 1856
87-001/HMC46(04) Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island, divided into counties. London, J.Cochrane. From: Martin, R. Montgomery (Robert Montgomery), 1803?-1868. History of the British colonies. Vol. 3, Possessions in North America. Coloured in outline. 14 x 7 in Item 1843
87-001/MC11(04) Canada. 5 Seale, Richard William. An accurate map of Canada, with the adjacent countries; exhibiting the late seat of war between the English & French in those parts. London, 1761. Coloured. Mounted on linen. From: The Universal Magazine, 1761. Phillips, Maps. p. 191 Item 1761
87-001/MC11(05) Canada. 18 Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835. A new map of Upper & Lower Canada ... London, J. Cary, 1807. Phillips Atlases, 736, no 54 Item 1807
87-001/MC11(10) Cape Breton Island (N.S.) 16 Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772. Carte de l'Acadie Isle Royale, et pays voisins pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages, par M. B[ellin]. Paris, 1757. From: Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de, 1682-1761. Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France. Map no. ?. See M. Bellin's introduction on maps in vol. III of Charlevoix Item 1757
87-001/MC11(18) North America. 19 Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871. North America by A.K. Johnston. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood & Sons, 1850. Phillips Atlases 799. National Atlas, Map no. 37 Item 1850
87-001/MC11(19) Nova Scotia. 1 Chabert, Joseph Bernard, Marquis de, 1724-1805 [Two plans and a map from Chabert's Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1750 et 1751 dans l'Amerique Septentrionale]. Paris, 1753. Coloured. Plan 1: Plan ou Port de Chibouctou... 1746. Map 2: Carte Particuliere des Costes du Sud Est del'Isle Royale ... 1750 et 1751. Plan 3: Plan du Porte de Canea...1750 Item 1753
87-001/MC11(24) Prince Edward Island. 26 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A map of the Island of St. John, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence divided into counties and parishes and the lots as granted by Government to which are added the soundings round the coast & harbours improved from the late survey of Captain Holland. [London, Sayer & Bennett, 6 April, 1775] From: The North American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence. Chart XIII Item 1775
87-001/HMC06 Mackinac, Straits of (Mich.). 1761 A plan of the Straits of St. Mary and Michilimakinac to shew the situation & importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade. London. The earliest separate map of the Sault Ste. Marie area. From: Gentlemen's Magazine, 1761 Item 1761
87-001/HMC39 Maritimes. A new and accurate map of the islands of Newfoundland, Cap Breton, St. John, and Anticosta, together with the neighbouring countries of Nova Scotia, Canada, etc. drawn from the most approved modern maps and charts and regulated by Astronl. Observatns. by Eman. Bowen. London. "No. 95" Phillips, Maps. p. 475. Item 1747
87-001/HMC38 Maritimes. 1846 Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873 Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edwards Id., Newfoundland and a large portion of the United States. London, pubd. 15 Feby. 1846 by J.Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square. Has inset map of Newfoundland. [Map no.] 42. From: The London Atlas of Universal Geography. Phillips, Maps, p. 197 Item 1846
87-001/HMC03 Montreal (Que.). Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia. [Venice? 1556?]. Woodcut plan of the town of Hochelaga as described by Cartier who visited in 1535. One of earlier printed maps of Canada and the first one ever to use "Montreal" as a name, printed here as "Monte Real". Illustrations show the Indian village and stockade and the Indians meeting the French. Printed at top left corner: "446"; top right corner: "447". Taken from vol. 3 of Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, Venice, 1556. [Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1517] Item 1556
87-001/HMC07 Montreal (Que.). Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 La Terra de Hochelage nella Nova Francia. Second ed. [Venice? 1565?] Woodcut plan of the town of Hochelaga as described by Cartier who visited in 1535. One of earlier printed maps of Canada and the first one ever to use "Montreal" as a name, printed here as "Monte Real". Illustrations show the Indigenous village and stockade and meeting the French. Printed at top left corner: "446"; top right corner: "447" Taken from vol. 3 of Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, Venice, 1565. [Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1517] Item 1565
87-001/HMC36 Montreal (Que.). Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 Plan of the town and fortifications of Montreal or Ville Marie in Canada. Published by Thos. Jefferys Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at Charing Cross, Jan. 30, 1758 Item 1758