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Title: Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland
Description: This map, which was published by Rand McNally & Co. in 1893 and 1898, shows the political divisions of Canada as they existed after Confederation, including boundary changes up to the Act of 1889, and is the fourth of the series of maps published by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in recognition of Canada's Centennial of Confederation.
Type: Maps
Date: 1967
Identifier: G_3401_S5_11404_1889
Identifier (PID): yul:1152747

Title: Map showing wooded and prairie tracts in part of northern Alberta and portions of the districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan
Description: This is a map of Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1887, showing wooded and prairie regions and trails.
Type: Maps
Date: 1887
Identifier: 3562/N6 K2/506/1887
Identifier (PID): yul:1151112

Title: Map from the Pacific Ocean across the Rocky Mountain zone : to accompany report on the exploratory survey
Description: This is a map of the Rocky Mountains in 1874 showing explored areas, routes, passes, lakes and rivers, as well as unexplored routes and regions.
Type: Maps
Date: January 1874
Identifier: 3572/R6 P205/1584/1874
Identifier (PID): yul:1151256

Title: Map of Quebec in counties
Description: Map of Québec as of 1872 or 1874. Counties are outlined and filled in with multiple colours. Towns, cities, and bodies of water are named. Unlabeled routes appear to be rail lines. Mountain ranged are denoted by hatched lines. An inset in the lower right show the Montreal area.
Type: Maps
Date: c1872
Identifier: 3480/-/2080/[1874?]
Identifier (PID): yul:1153117

Title: Government map of part of the Dominion of Canada, embracing the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, &c
Description: Detailed map of the Dominion of Canada as of 1877. Contains place names, county boundaries, bodies of water, rail lines, ferry/steamship routes, proposed travel routes, settlements, and Indigenous villages. Some mountains outlined with topographic hash marks. Inset lists the names of rail stations, organized by route.
Type: Maps
Date: 1877
Identifier: G/3400/1800/1877
Identifier (PID): yul:1152849

Title: McMillan's map of New Brunswick, 1867
Description: A map of New Brunswick in 1867. Counties are outlined and filled in with different colours. Roads and railways (completed, proposed, and in the process of construction) are noted with different lines, the guide to which can be found towards the bottom of the map. There are two insets, in the top right and bottom right corners, respectively. One shows the city and harbour of St John, while the other shows the city of Fredericton.
Type: Maps
Date: 1867
Identifier: G/3440/506/1867
Identifier (PID): yul:1152800

Title: British North America
Description: Map of British North America in 1800. Mountain ranges and other topographic features are denoted by hashed marks. Includes the names of bodies of water, cities, and towns. Alaska (then Russian territory), Greenland, and parts of the United States can be seen.
Type: Maps
Date: 1800
Identifier: G/3401/S1/15000/1800
Identifier (PID): yul:1152730

Title: Central part of the province of Québec [NE]
Description: This is a map of the province of Quebec in 1898 showing surveyed lands, land tenure and subdivision, townships, roads, rivers and lakes. It consists of four sheets: SW-NW, NE, NW and SW (see separate records for the SW-NW, NW and SW sheets).
Type: Maps
Date: [1898]
Identifier: 3480/-/253/[1898?] NE
Identifier (PID): yul:1151432

Title: Central part of the province of Québec [NW]
Description: This is a map of the province of Quebec in 1898 showing surveyed lands, land tenure and subdivision, townships, roads, rivers and lakes. It consists of four sheets: SW-NW, NE, NW and SW (see separate records for the SW-NW, NE and SW sheets).
Type: Maps
Date: [1898]
Identifier: 3480/-/253/[1898?] NW
Identifier (PID): yul:1151431

Title: Central part of the province of Québec [SW]
Description: This is a map of the province of Quebec in 1898 showing surveyed lands, land tenure and subdivision, townships, roads, rivers and lakes. It consists of four sheets: SW-NW, NE, NW and SW (see separate records for the SW-NW, NE and NW sheets).
Type: Maps
Date: [1898]
Identifier: 3480/-/253/[1898?] SW
Identifier (PID): yul:1151428

Title: Central part of the province of Québec : Montreal sheet [SW-NW]
Description: This is a map of the province of Quebec in 1898 showing surveyed lands, land tenure and subdivision, townships, roads, rivers and lakes. It consists of four sheets: SW-NW, NE, NW and SW (see separate records for the NE, NW and SW sheets).
Type: Maps
Date: 1898
Identifier: 3480/-/253/[1898?] SW-NW
Identifier (PID): yul:1151423

Title: Map of a portion of the Yukon District, North-West Territory with the adjacent Northern part of British Columbia : sheet 3
Description: This is a map of a portion of Yukon in 1888 showing topographic and geological features. It consists of 3 sheets [see also sheets 1 and 2].
Type: Maps
Date: 1888
Identifier: 3592/S65 H2/506/1888 [sheet 3]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151260

Title: Map of a portion of the Yukon District, North-West Territory with the adjacent Northern part of British Columbia : sheet 2
Description: This is a map of a portion of Yukon in 1888 showing topographic and geological features. It consists of 3 sheets [see also sheets 1 and 3].
Type: Maps
Date: 1888
Identifier: 3592/S65 H2/506/1888 [sheet 2]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151259

Title: Map of a portion of the Yukon District, North-West Territory with the adjacent Northern part of British Columbia : sheet 1
Description: This is a map of a portion of Yukon in 1888 showing topographic and geological features. It consists of 3 sheets [see also sheets 2 and 3].
Type: Maps
Date: 1888
Identifier: 3592/S65 H2/506/1888 [sheet 1]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151258

Title: Map of part of the Valley of Red River north of the 49th parallel
Description: This is a base map of the Red River Valley issued presumably in 1870s. It shows rivers, lakes, woods and towns, and includes notes on relief, soil, vegetation and river banks.
Type: Maps
Date: [187-?]
Identifier: 3542/R4 C2/253/[187-]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151123

Title: Geological map of part of northern Alberta and portions of the districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, North West Territory
Description: This is a geological map of Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1887, showing rock types and distribution, coal seams, fossils and trails.
Type: Maps
Date: 1887
Identifier: 3562/N6 C5/506/1887
Identifier (PID): yul:1151110

Title: Map of Manitoba
Description: This is a map of Manitoba showing railways, schools, post offices, trails, administrative divisions, municipal boundaries, lots, cities and towns from 1891.
Type: Maps
Date: June 1891
Identifier: 3541/F7/760/1891
Identifier (PID): yul:1151085

Title: Map of part of North-West Territory shewing the locality of the Half-Breed Rebellion
Description: This map shows the geographic area of the uprising by the Métis people from 1885, known as the North-West Rebellion, or Half-Breed Rebellion.
Type: Maps
Date: [1885]
Identifier: 3537/C4 S455/2154/[188-]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151084

Title: Map of part of Manitoba and North West Territory showing subdivided into townships that portion in which the Hudson's Bay Co ...
Description: This is a map of land distribution in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories at the end of 19th century. It consists of two parts: part 1 - general map of the region showing inspected lands and Hudson's Bay Company's and Indian reserves; and part 2 - Hudson's Bay Company's information on cities, farming, lands, climate, municipal organization, schools, timber and fuel industries, transportation and communication in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories [see also record for part 1].
Type: Maps
Date: [1890]
Identifier: 3536/G422/1770/[189-]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151068

Title: Map of part of Manitoba and North West Territory showing subdivided into townships that portion in which the Hudson's Bay Co ...
Description: This is a map of land distribution in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories at the end of 19th century. It consists of two parts: part 1 - general map of the region showing inspected lands and Hudson's Bay Company's and Indian reserves; and part 2 - Hudson's Bay Company's information on cities, farming, lands, climate, municipal organization, schools, timber and fuel industries, transportation and communication in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories [see also record for part 2].
Type: Maps
Date: [1890]
Identifier: 3536/G422/1770/[189-]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151064

Title: Map of part of the province of Manitoba and North West Territories shewing the Hudsons Bay Company's sections [part 2]
Description: This is a map of land distribution in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories in 1881. It consists of two parts: part 1 - general map of the region; and part 2 - inset maps of major cities and towns, as well as Hudson's Bay Company's information on cities, farming, lands, climate, municipal organization, schools, timber and fuel industries, transportation and communication in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories [see also record for part 1].
Type: Maps
Date: 10 January 1881
Identifier: 3536/G422/506/1881
Identifier (PID): yul:1151055

Title: Map of part of the province of Manitoba and North West Territories shewing the Hudsons Bay Company's sections [part 1]
Description: This is a map of land distribution in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories in 1881. It consists of two parts: part 1 - general map of the region; and part 2 - inset maps of major cities and towns, as well as Hudson's Bay Company's information on cities, farming, lands, climate, municipal organization, schools, timber and fuel industries, transportation and communication in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories [see also record for part 2].
Type: Maps
Date: 10 January 1881
Identifier: 3536/G422/506/1881
Identifier (PID): yul:1151042

Title: Map of the Province of Manitoba
Description: Map of the Province of Manitoba in 1871. Contains town names, Indigenous villages, bodies of water, mountain ranges. Mountains are denoted by topographic lines. Some prairie areas have short descriptions of their quality.
Type: Maps
Date: 1871
Identifier: G/3540/0/1871
Identifier (PID): yul:1152852

Title: A new map of the province of Québec
Description: This is a map of Quebec province in 1776 compiled from French surveys. It shows indigenous lands and associated First Nations groups, also settlements, lakes, rivers and boundaries. It includes large-scale insets of Montreal, Quebec City and part of St. Laurence River.
Type: Maps
Date: 1776
Identifier: 3480/-/2250/1763
Identifier (PID): yul:1151328

Title: [Map showing Southeastern Saskatchewan]
Description: This is a base map of Southeastern Saskatchewan issued presumably in the 19th century. It shows rivers, lakes, hills and forts, and includes notes on relief, soil, vegetation and river banks.
Type: Maps
Date: [18–?]
Identifier: 3552/S26 A1/630/[18--?]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151113

Title: Map of Newfoundland
Description: Map of Newfoundland published in 1899. Highlights lighthouses, railway and steamship routes (see legend in the top right-hand corner). Mountains (with elevation spot heights) and other topographic features drawn with hashed lines. Names of towns and bodies of water are seen throughout.
Type: Maps
Date: 1899
Identifier: G/3465/850/1899
Identifier (PID): yul:1152801

Title: A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg, with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English shewing that, part of Gabarus Bay, in which they landed, and the ground in which the encamped during the Seige in 1745
Description: Lithographed to accompany the report on Canadian Archives for 1886, by Douglas Brymner, Archivist. Shows the town, harbour, and fortification of Louisbourg in the French colony of Île Royale (now part of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia) as it would have been during the first siege of Louisbourg in 1745.
Type: Maps
Date: 1886
Identifier: G/3434/L6 R4/21/1745
Identifier (PID): yul:1152798

Title: Map shewing the general northern limits of the principal forest trees of the Dominion of Canada
Description: Map shows the distribution of various species of trees in the Dominion of Canada in 1881. Specific species are denoted by different hashed, dotted and/or crossed lines, according to an index on the lower right portion of the map.
Type: Maps
Date: 1881
Identifier: G/3401/K2/5068/1881
Identifier (PID): yul:1152748

Title: The Hudson Bay railway : plan showing proposed locations from the PAS mission to Hudson Bay
Description: This is a base map of proposed routes for the Hudson Bay Railway from the 1890s.
Type: Maps
Date: [1890]
Identifier: 3541/P3/633/[189-]
Identifier (PID): yul:1151090

Title: Map of part of the Northwest Territory including the province of Manitoba exhibiting the several tracts of country ...
Description: This is a map of the Prairies and Northwestern Territory in 1875, showing the Mounted Police route and Indian population distribution.
Type: Maps
Date: 20 January 1875
Identifier: 3536/F59/2217/1875
Identifier (PID): yul:1151037