Item #39660 A Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c, with the Countries Adjacent from Quebec to Lake Huron. Compiled from the Original Documents in the Surveyor General's Office. James WYLD.

A Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c, with the Countries Adjacent from Quebec to Lake Huron. Compiled from the Original Documents in the Surveyor General's Office.

London. Published by Jas. Wyld, Geographer to Her Majesty. 1838. Linen backed folding map, 57x 86cm, (22.5"x 34"), original colour, as issued, original printed label. very good to fine condition , rare. (cgc) First issued in 1800 by Smyth (see below). and subsequently revised by Wyld, this map of Upper Canada contains detailed information on the counties, districts, townships, transportation systems, place-names and northern Ontario ('Great Tract of Wilderness') &c. It also includes portions of Quebec, Michigan Territory, New York, Pennsylvania. The 1838 issue includes additional rivers, lakes, place-names, roads and a railway from London to Hamilton. Winearls, Mapping Upper Canada, 30.6b. Tooley, The Mapping of America, 82(e), p. 102. Item #39660

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