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Daniel Livermore Map and Print Collection RG 578
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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.
Click here to view the Daniel Livermore Map and Print Collection finding aidCurrent copyright applies. In some instances, researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the Brock University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the Library’s usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
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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, CastorFour 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.
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Copper Engraving - Cataracte de Niagara, 1754A copper engraving of Niagara Falls, "Cataracte de Niagara", uncoloured, published in 1754.
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Canada 1788The map was prepared and published in Bonne's two volume "Atlas Encyclopedique" in Paris in 1788. It measures 40 cms x 28 cms.
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Carte de la Partie Septentrionale de la Mer du Sud, Comprise entre la Californie, les Isles Sandwich, le Japon et le Detrt. de Behring 1782A 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.
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Planisphere suivant la Projection de Mercator 1780Mercator 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".
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Amerique Septentrionale 1780A 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.
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Map of North America 1764A map of North America from Salmon's "Geography", 1764. The map is hand-coloured after publication.
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Carte Reduite des Partis Septentrionales du Globe, situees entre L'asia et L'AmeriqueThis 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.
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Souvenir Pamphlet - Opening of The Canadian Pacific Railway from "Ocean to Ocean"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".
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Canada: the Province of Ontario and part of QuebecBlackie & Son, Edinburgh and London, 18821882: 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.
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Anthony Finley’s map of “Canada”,1827: 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.
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Western Hemisphere1823: 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.
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“Canada” drawn by Arrowsmith in 18231823, “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.
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A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada1798: 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.
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Isle et Banc de Terre-Neuve et Isle St. Jean; avec L’Acadie ou la Nouvelle Ecosse1787: 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.
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L’Isle de Terre-Neuve L’Acadie, ou La Nouvelle Ecosse, l’Isle St. Jean et la Partie Orientale du Canada1783-4: 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.
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A Map of the British Empire in North America1776: 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.
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A Plan of the City & Harbour of Louisbourg1758: 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.
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Plan du Port Royal dans l’Acadie1764: 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.
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Port de Louisbourg dans L’Isle Royale1764: 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.
