Handsome
large-format
fold-out color lithographed 1936 map of Canada, printed more than 84
years
ago.
- This map opens to 69.7 x 100
cm [27½" x
39½"] and has wonderful detail throughout, on a scale of
1:5,892,480, or 93 miles to one inch.
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Topography is delineated by color
shading, and details include highways,
railroads, canals, tunnels, passes, water falls, glaciers, cities,
towns, principal
steamship routes, and more.
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When this map was printed Newfoundland was still a British dominion; it
did not become
a province of Canada until 1949.
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Among the other named places and features are Port Arthur, Fort
William, the Moose Factory
at the lower end of James Bay, Gaspé Peninsula, Vancouver Island,
Cariboo Mountains, District of Mackenzie, Yellowknife Preserve, Cape
Breton Island, Ottawa, Quebec, Edmonton, Saskatoon,
Regina, and the
steamship route from Churchill to
Liverpool.
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Condition: This map is in excellent
condition, bright and clean,
with no marks, rips, or tears. It folds to 9" x 6" and is blank on the
back, with no printing on the reverse side. Please see the scans and feel free to
ask any questions.
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This map was publshed by the National Geographic Society as a
supplement to the June 1936 edition of The National Geographic Magazine.
- It is an original, authentic 1936 map, not
a reproduction or modern reprint, and it is fully guaranteed to be
genuine.
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