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MAP LITERATURE OP CANADA. 



In 1872, there was published in Paris by Tross, a -well-known 

 bookseller, a work entitled " Notes Subsidiary to the History, Biblio- 

 graphy, and Cartography of New France, and adjoining countries 

 from 1545 to 1700." The compiler was the author of the Bibliotheca 

 Americana Vetiostissima, Mr. Harisse, if I mistake not. The division 

 of the book, embracrng Cartography, contains a description of (1) 76 

 inedited, and (2) 111 engraved maps, or plans. Most of the inedited 

 maps, &c., are among the public archives of France. Some of the 

 most important of them have been copied for the Canadian Grovern- 

 ment, and the Canadian Institute at Toronto possesses tracings from 

 portions of six of them : (1) Of a map of 1643 of ISTouvelle France, 

 in which Lake Erie is scarcely distinguishable. (2) Of a map of 

 1670, shewing the route of the French Missionaries Dollier and 

 Galinee. (In this map, the spectator is supposed to be standing on 

 the north side of the great lakes, and to be looking south. Hence, 

 at first sight, the map has the appearance of being upside down. 

 Fort Frontenac is not yet established. Quinte is spelt Kent6). (3) 

 Of Joliet's map (about the same date as the preceding), on which 

 Lake Ontario figures as Lake Frontenac. (It bears an address from 

 Joliet to the Comte de Frontenac). (4) Of a map of 1G88, in which 

 the Bay of Quinte is called Lac St. Lion. (This map also looks 

 upside down. No Fort Frontenac is marked). (5) Of a map subse- 

 quent to the erection of Fort Frontenac. (Lake Erie is here called 

 Teiocharontiong). (6) Of a map of the Saguenay country, by the 

 Jesuit Laure (1731). It is dedicated to the Dauphin. Among the 

 engraved maps in Tross' catalogue are included several j^ublished in 

 Italy, Holland, and England. One dated in 1680 — a general map 

 of North America — is described, and dedicated to Charles II. The 

 maps given by Hennepin and Lahontan, in their respective books, 

 are also included. 



The list in the above-mentioned work gives no maps dated subse- 

 quently to 1700. I do not observe in this list the maps figured in 

 Bamnusio's Collection of Yoyages and Travels, printed in Venice in 

 1556, which must have been copied from even older maps. I place 

 on the table the volume of Ramnusio, which has the maps of the New 

 World, and of New France, and the one that shews the plan of the 

 iaboriginal Hochelaga, or Montreal of the time of Jacques Cartier. 



