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Title:
A COUNTRY SO INTERESTING
THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY AND TWO CENTURIES OF MAPPING, 1670-1870
By:
Richard I. Ruggles
Format:
Paperback
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£41.00
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ISBN 10:
0773538852
ISBN 13:
9780773538856
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Publisher:
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date:
30 June, 2011
Series:
Rupert's Land Record Society Series
Pages:
320
Description:
In A Country So Interesting Richard Ruggles describes and analyses the mapping activities of more than 160 Company servants and surveyors as well as the contributions of more than 50 Indians and Inuit who drew sketches and provided original configurations. Also included are annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company and sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and sketches. The Hudson's Bay Company was responsible for the largest collection in North America of manuscript charts and maps related to the fur trade and Ruggles has produced the first and most comprehensive study of this unique and rich body of material.
Synopsis:
In A Country So Interesting Richard Ruggles describes and analyses the mapping activities of more than 160 Company servants and surveyors as well as the contributions of more than 50 Indians and Inuit who drew sketches and provided original configurations. Also included are annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company and sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and sketches. The Hudson's Bay Company was responsible for the largest collection in North America of manuscript charts and maps related to the fur trade and Ruggles has produced the first and most comprehensive study of this unique and rich body of material.
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Canada
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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