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Gulf of St. Lawrence : Cape Breton Island, Louisburg Harbour   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, issuing body
Title
Gulf of St. Lawrence : Cape Breton Island, Louisburg Harbour
Publisher
London : Published at the Admiralty
Description
1 map ; 47 x 61 cm
"Published at the Admiralty, 7th Decembr. 1859 under the Superintendence of Captn. Washington R.N. F.R.S. Hydrographer
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings in feet
Includes one coastal profile of Louisburg Lighthouse N.N.E
Mounted on linen
Legend for material under the soundings: clay, gravel, mud, rock, sand, shells, shingle
"Price One Shilling & Sixpence."
"Engraved by J & C Walker."
"Sold by J. D. Potter, Agent for the Admiralty Charts, 31 Poultry."
Early Canadian nautical maps were referred to as "Bayfield charts" in honour of Henry Wolsey Bayfield who began in the early 1800s charting the waterways of Canada

Subjects: Saint Lawrence, Gulf of -- Navigation -- Maps.; Nova Scotia -- Navigation -- Maps.; Nautical charts -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of.; Nautical charts -- Nova Scotia.; Louisbourg (N.S.) -- Navigation -- Maps.; Canada -- Maps.; McGill University Library Digitized Title; Bayfield Project; Nautical charts -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of; Nautical charts -- Nova Scotia; Nautical charts; Saint Lawrence, Gulf of -- Navigation -- Maps; Nova Scotia -- Navigation -- Maps; Louisbourg (N.S.) -- Navigation -- Maps; Canada -- Maps; Atlantic Ocean -- Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Canada; Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia -- Louisbourg
Language English
Publication date 1859
publication_date QS:P577,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto
Accession number
McGillLibrary-rbsc_map_bayfield-065-19168
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Internet Archive identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_map_bayfield-065-19168
https://archive.org/download/McGillLibrary-rbsc_map_bayfield-065-19168/rbsc_map_bayfield-065.pdf
  • IA contributor: McGill University Library

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