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A sketch of the River Exploits and the east end of Lieutenants Lake in Newfoundland [cartographic material]

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Date:

[1768].

Reference:

Local class no.: H3/110/Exploits River/[ca.1773], G3437 .E82 1768 .C37 H3, Box number: 2000206202

Local class no.:

G3437 .E82 1768 .C37 H3, H3/110/Exploits River/[ca.1773]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

189829

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Maps, plans and charts

Newfoundland - Maps, Charts and Plans [cartographic material, architectural drawing]

110 - River and lake basins, Newfoundland

A sketch of the River Exploits and the east end of Lieutenants Lake in Newfoundland
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Date(s):

[1768].

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Place of creation:

Newfoundland and Labrador

Publisher:

John Cartwright,

Extent:

1 map : ms., col. ; 39 x 31 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a manuscript map of the Exploits River and the interior of Newfoundland.

Provenance:

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Cartwright, John, 1740-1824

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Cartographer: Cartwright, John, 1740-1824

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General note:

Showing the sites near the Exploits River where the Beothuk people lived (pale brown ink) and a conical summer mamateek.
Oriented with north at the bottom.
Relief shown by hachures.
Old call no.: 110 Exploits [ca. 1773] H3

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Treasures of the National Archives of Canada, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, Ottawa, Communication Group-Publishing, Supply and Services Canada, 1992, p. 38-39.

Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Canada. Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps, p. 122-123.

Ingeborg Marshall, History and Ethnography of the Beothuk, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.

G. Malcolm Lewis (1998), "Maps, Mapmaking, and Map Use by Native North Americans", The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Three: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, Chapter 4, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, p. 73.

G. M. Story, "CARTWRIGHT, GEORGE," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.

Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador, The Beothuk, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/toc/aboriginal-peoples-table-of-contents.php#relbeo

Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador, Beothuk Housing,
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/aboriginal/beothuk-housing.php

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Undetermined scale.

Availability of other formats note:

Microfiche: NMC 27., C print number 17988.

Associated material note:

From: "Remarks on the situation of the Red Indians, natives of Newfoundland ... together with such descriptions as are necessary to the explanation of the sketch of country they inhabit, taken on the spot in the year 1768. 13th Jan. 1773" (Manuscript Division : MG 23 A1(1), vol. 3).
Subject heading:

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland - Maps

Native peoples--Newfoundland--Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador 1763-1855

Beothuk

Manuscript maps

Cartes manuscrites
Source:

Private

Library of Congress class no.:

G3437 .E82 1768 .C37 H3
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Microfiche NMC27

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Box [110 EXPLOITS [CA. 1773]] 2000206202

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Cartographic material: microform

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