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Victoria Road, Ontario: fire insurance plan / Charles E. Goad
76-033 · Item · 1898

This item is a Charles E. Goad fire insurance plan of the village of Victoria Road, Ontario as at August 1898. It includes a key plan (scale 500':01") and a key to symbols.

 Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau
Warkworth Ontario: fire insurance plan / Charles E. Goad
76-034 · Item · 1890

This item is a Charles E. Goad fire insurance plan of the village of Warkworth, Ontario as at June, 1890. It includes a key plan (scale 550':01"), and a key to symbols.

 Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau
Woodville, Ontario: fire insurance plan / Chas. E. Goad Company
76-035 · Item · 1910

This item is a Chas. E. Goad Company fire insurance plan of the village of Woodville, Ontario as at July 1910. It includes a key plan (scale 500':01"), and a key to symbols.

 Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau
Peterborough, Ontario: fire insurance plan / Chas. E. Goad Company
76-037 · Item · 1911

This item is a Chas. E. Goad Company fire insurance plan of the City of Peterborough, Ontario revised in 1911 from a plan of 1904, surveyed December 1893. It includes a key plan (scale 500':01"), a key to symbols, an index, and special diagrams of major buildings such as factories and schools.

 Charles E. Goad Company - Underwriters' Survey Bureau
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]
87-001/HMC03 · Item · 1556
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
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]
87-001/HMC07 · Item · 1565
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Northwest Coast of North America and Russia, Northeastern. De la Rochette, L.S. Chart of the N.W. Coast of America and the N.E. coast of Asia, explored in the years 1778 and 1779. Prepared by Lieut. Henry Roberts, under the immediate inspection of Capt. Cook. London: published by Wm Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross, July 24, 1784. 2nd ed. published January 1, 1794. [Advertisement below title:] The interesting discoveries made by British and American ships, since the first publication of this chart in 1784, together with the hydrographical materials lately procured from St. Petersburg and other places, have enabled Mr. De la Rochette to lay down the numerous improvements which appear in the present edition. Charing Cross, January 1, 1808. W. Faden
87-001/HMC12 · Item · 1808
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Arctic Regions. 1680 Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696 A map of the North Pole and the parts adjoining. Oxon, At the Theater, MDCLXXX. Has two coloured illustrations: one of a family in Eskimo dress and the other of fishermen harpooning a whale. Inset map at top right is of Nova Zembla [Zembia?] Has note: In the Philosophical Transactions of ao. 1674, no. 101, there is set down a description of Nova Zembla as it was sent to the Royal Society from a Russian merchant and discovered by order of the Grand Czaar, but there being not joyned to it either longitude latitude or other measure, we thought it better to follow the two newest maps. One printed at Amsterdam 1678 the other at Nuremberg 1679 and to place this by itself which shews it not an island but joyned with the continent at the letter K." Map dedicated to the Right Honble. Charles FitzCharles, Earle of Plymouth ... Taken from vol. 1 of Pitt's English Atlas published under Royal patronage in 1680. The Atlas bankrupted Pitt; only
87-001/HMC13 · Item · 1680
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
North America, Eastern. Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767 A new & accurate map of Louisiana with parts of Florida and Canada, and the adjacent countries drawn from surveys assisted by the most approved English and French maps & charts. The whole being regulated by astronl. observations by Eman. Bowen. London. "We think it proper to inform ye curious reader that in laying down ye coast & boundaries of ye British Empire in America, as well as that of Louisiana, Canda or New France, recourse has been had to all ye surveys & most authentick charts & maps hitherto published, but more particularly to Monsr. Bellin's maps of Canada, Louisiana & drawn by him for ye use of P. Charlevoix's History of New France; and as our maps of these parts differ considerably from most others, this difference must be principally attributed to our relying on Monsr. Bellin's authority." Back of frame has biographical information on Bowen and information about this map. From: A Complete System of G
87-001/HMC14 · Item · 1747
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
North America, Central. Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718 Partie Occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France ou sont les nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres peuples; avec la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte et dresee sur mes memoires nouveaux par le P. Coronelli, cosmographe de la Serme. Repub. de Venise. Corrigee et augmentee par le Sr. Tillemon, et dedice a Monseiur l'Abbe Baudrand. A Paris, chez I.B. Nolin sur le Quay de L'Horloge du Palais vers le Pont Neuf a l'Enseigne de la Place des Victoires. Avec privilege du Roy, 1688
87-001/HMC18 · Item · 1688
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
North America, Eastern. Moll, Herman, d. 1732 A map of New France containing Canada, Louisiana &c. in North America according to the patent granted by the King of France to Monsieur Crozat dated the 14th of Sep. 1712 N.S. and registered in the Parliament of Paris the 24th of the same month by H. Moll, Geographer. [London? ca. 1740]. Phliips Atlases, 3526, Map no. 50. April 1997, note glass on picture frame broken
87-001/HMC19 · Item · [1740?]
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
North America. Rapkin, J. North America. The illustrations by J. Marchant & engraved by J. Rogers. The map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin. London, J. Tallis. Coloured in outline. Coloured illustrations surround the map: Inuit dog-sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of diamonds, Ancient Monument, Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Deer, Cossacks. From: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World
87-001/HMC22 · Item · 1851
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Arctic Regions. 1680? De Wit, Frederick Poli Arctici et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima per Fredericum de Wit Amstelodami. [Amsterdam, 1680?] Coloured. "Gedruckt i Amsteldam by Frederick de Wit in de Valverstract aen den Dam in de Wit paseaert"
Arctic Regions. 1680? De Wit, Frederick Poli Arctici et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima per Fredericum de Wit Amstelodami. [Amsterdam, 1680?] Coloured. "Gedruckt i Amsteldam by Frederick de Wit in de Valverstract aen den Dam in de Wit paseaert"
87-001/HMC28 · Item · 1680?
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection

A highly decorative piece consisting of a circular map 17 in. in diameter of the Arctic set within a rectangle 19 x 17 in. with its remaining portions filled with remarkable coloured vignettes of whaling scenes in the northern regions. The Arctic is shown in its standard form for this period ... with Northwest America absent due to lack of available knowledge.