Daniel Livermore Map and Print Collection RG 578
Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/10464/10630
A collection of maps from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries that mainly focus on Ontario and parts of Eastern Canada. The collection of maps was donated by Dan Livermore, Brock graduate with a BA in history and politics. He has worked as Canada’s ambassador to Guatemala and El Salvador and later became Canada’s Director General of Security and Intelligence. Currently, he works at the University of Ottawa in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
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Item Open Access Copper Engravings - Boeuf de la Nouvelle France, Un Esquimau dans son Canot, Esquimaux du cote du Nord-Ouest de la Baye de Hudson, Espece de Loup appelle Quick Hatch, ou Wolverene, Tatou ou Armadille, Castor(1754) Bellin, Jacques NicholasFour copper engravings published in 1754. Each engraving has a brief description: No. I Boeuf de la Nouvelle France, No. V Esquimau dans son Canot, Esquimaux du cote du Nort-Ouest de la Baye de Hudson, No. III Espece de Loup appelle Quick hatch, ou Wolverene, Porc-Epic, No. IV Tatou ou Armadille, Castor. They measure approximately 26cms x 20 cms.Item Open Access Copper Engraving - Cataracte de Niagara, 1754(1754) Bellin, Jacques NicholasA copper engraving of Niagara Falls, "Cataracte de Niagara", uncoloured, published in 1754.Item Open Access Canada 1788(1788) Bonne, RigobertThe map was prepared and published in Bonne's two volume "Atlas Encyclopedique" in Paris in 1788. It measures 40 cms x 28 cms.Item Open Access Carte de la Partie Septentrionale de la Mer du Sud, Comprise entre la Californie, les Isles Sandwich, le Japon et le Detrt. de Behring 1782(1782) Bellin, Jacques Nicholas; Dupuis, Louis-AndreA map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin with engraver Louis-Andre Dupuis. The map was drafted in light of the voyages and discoveries of Captain James Cook in 1778 and 1779, with the map's notations based on the drafts of lieu. Henry Roberts. It was published in Prevost's Histoire Denerale des Voyages, circa 1782. It measures 40 cms x 30cms and is lightly coloured.Item Open Access Planisphere suivant la Projection de Mercator 1780(1780) Bonne, RigobertMercator projection of the world in 1780. The map does not take into account recent explorations of the Pacific. It was originally in Guillaume Raynal's "Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestres Dresse pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les Deux Indes".Item Open Access Amerique Septentrionale 1780(1780) Bonne, RigobertA map from Guillaume Raynal's "Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre, Dresse pour l'Histoire Philosophique et Politque des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les Deux Indes". The map depicts North America without many political divisions. It measures 38 cms x 28 cms.Item Open Access Map of North America 1764(1764) Jeffrey, ThomasA map of North America from Salmon's "Geography", 1764. The map is hand-coloured after publication.Item Open Access Carte Reduite des Partis Septentrionales du Globe, situees entre L'asia et L'Amerique(1758) Bellin, Jacques NicholasThis map was initially published as part of Bellin's "Histoire Generale des Voyages" in 1758. The map is in colour and measures 40 cms x 26 cms approximately.Item Open Access Souvenir Pamphlet - Opening of The Canadian Pacific Railway from "Ocean to Ocean"(1886-06-28) Canada Bank Note Co.A "souvenir of the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Great Canadian Highway of Commerce and Travel and the connecting link between the Atlantic and Pacific. Built under the auspices of Sir John A. Macdonald, K.C.B., & c." There is a list of individuals involved with the Canadian Pacific Railway and "some interesting statistics concerning the great railway".Item Open Access Canada: the Province of Ontario and part of Quebec(Blackie & Son, Edinburgh and London, 1882)1882: Canada: the Province of Ontario and part of Quebec, published by Blackie & Son, Edinburgh & London. A coloured map of southern Ontario with major roads and railways, and also showing the western part of Quebec; unframed; folded in the middle.Item Open Access Anthony Finley’s map of “Canada”,(1827) Finley, Anthony1827: Anthony Finley’s map of “Canada”, engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Finley’s “A New General Atlas”; American map-maker, based in Philadelphia, who worked primarily in the 1820s and 1830s. coloured, approximately 29 cms wide by 23 cms high.Item Open Access Western Hemisphere(1823) Wyld, James1823: James Wyld, map of the “Western Hemisphere”, published as P. 6 in Atlas of the World; very gently coloured, unfolded, unframed, roughly 29 cms by 23 cms.Item Open Access “Canada” drawn by Arrowsmith in 1823(A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1823) Arrowsmith, A.1823, “Canada” drawn by Arrowsmith in 1823 and published by A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh; lightly coloured map originally published in a book, roughly 26 cms by 21 cms on a larger sheet of paper indicating that it was page XLIX.Item Open Access A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada(1798) Stockdale, John1798: John Stockdale, “A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada”, hand-coloured in soft pastels, map about 23 cms by 17 cms; from a publication, Travels Through the States of North America.Item Open Access Isle et Banc de Terre-Neuve et Isle St. Jean; avec L’Acadie ou la Nouvelle Ecosse(1787) Bonne, Rigobert1787: Rigobert Bonne, “Isle et Banc de Terre-Neuve et Isle St. Jean; avec L’Acadie ou la Nouvelle Ecosse”; hand coloured map, in pastels; from Bonne’s Atlase Supplement of 1787; map about 35 cms by 23 cms.Item Open Access L’Isle de Terre-Neuve L’Acadie, ou La Nouvelle Ecosse, l’Isle St. Jean et la Partie Orientale du Canada(1783) Bonne, Rigobert1783-4: Rigobert Bonne, “L’Isle de Terre-Neuve L’Acadie, ou La Nouvelle Ecosse, l’Isle St. Jean et la Partie Orientale du Canada”; a re-issue of a map initially released in 1780 with Bonne’s name below the title of the map; this version has no name on the map itself but is otherwise identical in terms of its location in a large atlas of maps of the world; size is roughly 31 cms by 21 cms; although issued in black and white, this one is lightly coloured in pastels, with an emphasis on geographic features; there is a very small hole in the map, central along the bottom border.Item Open Access A Map of the British Empire in North America(1776) Dunn, Samuel1776: Samuel Dunn, “A Map of the British Empire in North America”, a largish map, about 47 cms high by 30 cms wide, published in London in 1776 and showing the British Empire’s possessions in North America on the eve of the American revolution; coloured in pastels; with fold mark in the middle as it had been part of a book used by both sides in the American Revolutionary war for geographic information on the colonies.Item Open Access A Plan of the City & Harbour of Louisbourg(1758) Anon1758: Anon, “A Plan of the Cityy & Harbour of Louisbourg”, published in Gentleman’s Magazine in 1758 on the eve of the siege of Louisbourg by British forces, which were eventually successful in forcing its capitulation and eventual destruction; coloured, with a fold mark in the middle corresponding to the magazine fold.Item Open Access Plan du Port Royal dans l’Acadie(1764) Bellin, Jacques Nicholas1764: Jacques Nicholas Bellin, “Plan du Port Royal dans l’Acadie”, a map roughly 33 cms by 20 cms, with coloration on geographic features; from Bellin’s petit atlas of 1764; almost identical to a 1744 map of the same subject, although some of the map’s features were changed since its initial publication in Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France Charlevoix in 1744; this one, from the petit atlas, is map number 27 of Vol. I.Item Open Access Port de Louisbourg dans L’Isle Royale(1764) Bellin, Jacques Nicholas1764: J. N. Bellin, “Port de Louisbourg dans L’Isle Royale”, from the same atlas as the above map, this one map number 23 of volume I; map is 32 cms wide by 21 cms high.