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Title: Chart of the World showing New Route through Canada between England, China, Japan, Australasia and the East. By J. Johnston. Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, 1886.
Description: Map of transport within Canada and between Canada and other countries. Railway transport shown within Canada and to the United States. Ship lines to Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are shown with hashed red lines. Major cities are labelled and British posessions are coloured red. Relief shown with hachures.
Type: Maps
Date: 1886
Identifier: HMC0002
Identifier (PID): yul:1153557

Title: Mappe-Monde Planispherique Physique et Hydrographique
Description: A world map highlighting ocean currents. European possessions are marked according to colour and a small legend explaining the colour-coding is at the bottom of the map. Continents, countries, major cities, islands, bodies of water, and ocean currents are labelled throughout. Relief shown by hachures. This map is plate 10 of Atlas universel. Notes on the bottom of the map describe average and extreme temperatures, snowfall limits, and average altitudes.
Type: Maps
Date: 1856
Identifier: WMC0051
Identifier (PID): yul:1153552

Title: The World Illustrating the Principal Features of Meteorology; The World Showing the Distribution and Limits of Cultivation of the Principal Plants Useful to Mankind
Description: Files consists of two world maps, originally published as part Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas And Descriptive Geography. The upper map is titled "The World Illustrating the Principal Features of Meteorology" and shows global wind and storm currents. An inset map on the bottom shows global rainfall patterns, with darker shading showing higher rainfall. The second map in the bottom half of the image is titled "The World Showing the Distribution and Limits of Cultivation of the Principal Plants Useful to Mankind" and shows the global distribution of plants used in agriculture and industry. Continents, some countries and islands are labelled. The limits of plant growth and cultivation are shown with labelled hashed lines.
Type: Maps
Date: 1856
Identifier: WMC0053
Identifier (PID): yul:1153295

Title: Chart of Isothermal Lines, Shewing the mean annual Temperature of the Different parte of the Earth's Surface [1846]
Description: World map with isothermal lines showing the annual mean temperature on the Earth's surface. Countries, some major cities, islands, seas and oceans are labelled. The equator, the artic and antartic circles are outlined. Northern expeditions are marked towards the top of the map, including the names of explorers Parry, Hudson, Phipps, Tschitsagoff, Buchan and Franklin.
Type: Maps
Date: 1846
Identifier: WMC0052
Identifier (PID): yul:1153294

Title: British possessions in North America from Mr. Arrowsmith's Map of North America
Description: Map of Northern portion of North America, with little detail outside of colonies in Eastern North America. Showing broad highlights of separation between British and U.S. territories, mountain ranges, lakes and rivers, and some place names and anglo names for indigenous people.
Type: Maps
Date: 15 July 1814
Identifier: WMC0028
Identifier (PID): yul:1152483

Title: General map of the United States : showing the area and extent of the free & slave-holding states, and the territories of the union.
Description: Map of United States from 1857 with "free states and territories coloured green. The dark Green shows the Free settled States, and the light Green the Territories. Slave-holding states coloured red. The dark red shows the slave importing, and the light red the slave exporting states." Showing waterways, cities and towns, and parts of Mexico, British America/Canada, and the Bahamas.
Type: Maps
Date: 1857
Identifier: WMC0016
Identifier (PID): yul:1152331