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him but by one of the draughtsmen of the Grown Land office, is the last 

 to leave the international boundary undefined, for it was settled in that 

 year. 



The next general map of the ]»rovince that I have found, is an 

 inferior map by G. H. Perley, of 1853. This shows the International 

 boundary correctly, and also the Quebec-New Brunswick boundary, 

 which had been fixed upon, but not surveyed, and its curious course in 

 the vicinity of Long Lake, as compared with the direction it actually has 

 on our later maps, shows that this line does not run exactl}' as expected. 

 During the interval between Wyld's and Perley's maps some impor- 

 tant work had been done on New Brunswick topography. Not onl}' had 

 many county lines been run and new settlements laid out, but Captain 

 Owen, in IS-il-lSio, had made his splendid traverse and triangulation of 

 the St. John from the mouth to Springhill, and copies of his beautiful and 

 most detailed maps are preserved in MS. in the Crown Land office and 

 foi'm the basis of all subsequent maps of that region. In lcS43-]844 the 

 surveys for the military road from Quebec to Halifax, and later the Inter- 

 colonial Eailroad surveys made known much of the topography of the 

 province In particular the surveys of 184;j-184-l: laid down the upper 

 Eestigouche in great detail, and the beautiful maps of that survey are in 

 the Crown Land office. The Quebec-New Brunswick b )undary was run 

 in 1855. 



In 1857 appeared a small but excellent map, i)robably prejiared bv 

 M. H. Perley for his Handbook published in that 3-ear. It shows clearly 

 the blocks of land laid out for settlement in 185(). 



In 185!> we come to what is generally regarded as the o-reatest 

 ma J) which has yet been published of New Brunswick — that of John 

 Wilkinson. This map is veiy well known, and many copies of it are still 

 in u.se. Not onl}' is it remarkable for the beauty of its workmanship, 

 but also for the accuracy and completeness with which it brings together 

 everj'thing then known of New Brunswick geography. On it, for the 

 first time on a New Brunswick nuip, a railroad, that from St. John to 

 Shediac, appears. There has been but little to alter in this map since 

 then, though much detail has, of course, been added. .John Wilkinson 

 came to this country, probably from I^^ngland, as agent for the Campo- 

 beilo Company, and died at Fredericton in 1871, aged 67.' 



After AYilkinson's maj) there are many of varying scale and qualit}- 

 of execution, but none requiring special mention until Loggie's tine map 

 of 1885, which brings together all material up to date, and is the standard 

 map of the province to-day. Naturally, in the quarter of a century 

 which had passed since Wilkinson's ai)peared, there had been great 



1 A full history of this famous map is contained in a pamphlet, " A Memorial of 

 Claims on the Government of New Brunswick," by John Wilkinson, Fredericton, 

 1864. 



