A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping, 1670-1870

Maps were an essential tool for the Hudson's Bay Company and during the two centuries before Confederation the Company became the main mapping agency in British North America for the immense territory extending from Ungava Bay to the Pacific Ocean.

About the author

Richard I. Ruggles (1923-2008) was professor emeritus in the Department of Geography, Queen's University, a department he founded in 1960.

Summary

The first and most comprehensive study of the largest collection in North America of manuscript charts and maps related to the fur trade

Product details

• Authors: Richard I. Ruggles
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9780773538856
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-3885-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 224 mm x 295 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Series: Rupert's Land Record Society Series; Rupert's Land Record Society; Rupert's Land Record Society Series; Rupert's Land Record Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Arktis, Kanada, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Kartographie, Kartierung, Geographische Entdeckungen und Erforschungen