Robert Lloyd Hunter collection

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87-001/001(34) British Columbia Proclamation No. 12, concerning the manner of payment of road contract File 1861
87-001/001(50) Clippings: people, Capt. Cook, Sandford Fleming, Frederick William Cumberland, Joseph Brant. File
87-001/001(51) Provenance of material File
87-001/001(02) Stone, Joel. Holograph public notice signed by Stone, Leeds, announcing marriage of Peter Laver and Fanny Friekey File 14tFebruary, 1818
87-001/001(06) Civil Government of Canada, report from the Select Committee, 359 pages File 1828
87-001/HMC28 Arctic Regions. 1680? De Wit, Frederick Poli Arctici et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima per Fredericum de Wit Amstelodami. [Amsterdam, 1680?] Coloured. "Gedruckt i Amsteldam by Frederick de Wit in de Valverstract aen den Dam in de Wit paseaert" Item 1680?
87-001/HMC43 Canada. 1851 Rapkin, J British America. The illustrations by H. Warren and engraved by Robt. Wallis. Map drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. London, J. Tallis, 1851. Coloured illustrations surrounding the map: Fury and Hecla, Esquimuax, Whale fishing, Seal, Montreal. From: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World Item 1851
87-001/HMC38 Maritimes. 1846 Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873 Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edwards Id., Newfoundland and a large portion of the United States. London, pubd. 15 Feby. 1846 by J.Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square. Has inset map of Newfoundland. [Map no.] 42. From: The London Atlas of Universal Geography. Phillips, Maps, p. 197 Item 1846
87-001/HMC03 Montreal (Que.). Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia. [Venice? 1556?]. Woodcut plan of the town of Hochelaga as described by Cartier who visited in 1535. One of earlier printed maps of Canada and the first one ever to use "Montreal" as a name, printed here as "Monte Real". Illustrations show the Indian village and stockade and the Indians meeting the French. Printed at top left corner: "446"; top right corner: "447". Taken from vol. 3 of Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, Venice, 1556. [Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1517] Item 1556
87-001/HMC07 Montreal (Que.). Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 La Terra de Hochelage nella Nova Francia. Second ed. [Venice? 1565?] Woodcut plan of the town of Hochelaga as described by Cartier who visited in 1535. One of earlier printed maps of Canada and the first one ever to use "Montreal" as a name, printed here as "Monte Real". Illustrations show the Indigenous village and stockade and meeting the French. Printed at top left corner: "446"; top right corner: "447" Taken from vol. 3 of Ramusio's Navigationi et Viaggi, Venice, 1565. [Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1517] Item 1565
87-001/HMC36 Montreal (Que.). Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 Plan of the town and fortifications of Montreal or Ville Marie in Canada. Published by Thos. Jefferys Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at Charing Cross, Jan. 30, 1758 Item 1758
87-001/HMC22 North America. Rapkin, J. North America. The illustrations by J. Marchant & engraved by J. Rogers. The map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin. London, J. Tallis. Coloured in outline. Coloured illustrations surround the map: Inuit dog-sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of diamonds, Ancient Monument, Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Deer, Cossacks. From: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World Item 1851
87-001/HMC46 Ontario. Canada Company Map of the townships in the Province of Upper Canada. Map is top of a poster with title: Lands in Upper Canada to be disposed of by the Canada Company incorporated by Royal Charter and Act of Parliament, in 1826. Canada Company, Canada House, St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street, 11th February, 1841. Marchant & Singer & Smith, Printers, Ingram Court London Item [1841?]
87-001/HMC15 Louisbourg (N.S.). 1758 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 [Two maps of Louisbourg: the first:] A Plan of the city and fortifications of Louisburg from a survey made by Richard Gridley, Lieut. Coll. of the Train of Artillery in 1745. "This important Frenc fortress was taken on the 17th of June 1745 after a siege of 49 days by nine Regiments (that were raised & equiped in 50 days in New England) and commanded by Sr. Willm. Pepperill, assisted by a Fleet under the command of Commodore Warren, with the loss of 101 men killed and 30 that died by sickness. This place was afterwards restored to the French by the Treaty of Aix la Chapel." by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the Prince of Wales at Charing Cross, Oct. 9, 1758. [The second:] A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg, with the French batteries that defended it and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the Siege in 1758. This second map has an inset map: A map of Gabarus Bay adjoi Item 1758
87-001/HMC39 Maritimes. A new and accurate map of the islands of Newfoundland, Cap Breton, St. John, and Anticosta, together with the neighbouring countries of Nova Scotia, Canada, etc. drawn from the most approved modern maps and charts and regulated by Astronl. Observatns. by Eman. Bowen. London. "No. 95" Phillips, Maps. p. 475. Item 1747
87-001/HMC06 Mackinac, Straits of (Mich.). 1761 A plan of the Straits of St. Mary and Michilimakinac to shew the situation & importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade. London. The earliest separate map of the Sault Ste. Marie area. From: Gentlemen's Magazine, 1761 Item 1761
87-001/HMC46(09) World. Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835. A new chart of the world, on Mercator's projections. Exhibiting the tracks & discoveries of the most eminent navigators, to the present period. London, published by J. Cary Engraver & Map Seller, no. 181 Strand - April 28, 1811, 21761 Item 1811
87-001/HMC46(07) Quebec (Que). Smyth, Henry. ["Quebec. A view of Quebec from the Bason"] from a drawing by Henry Smyth. London, John Bowles. See p. 12 Divolpi Item 1761
87-001/MC11(02) British Columbia. 17 Partie de la Nouvelle Hanovre. Bruxelles. Coloured. Phillips Atlases, 749. Vandermalen, P.M.G. Amer. Sep. No. 51 Item 1827
87-001/MC11(14) Maritimes. 6 Nouvelle Ecosse et Nouveau Brunswick. Bruxelles, 1827. Phillips Atlases, 749. Vandermaelen, P.M.G. Amer. Sept. No. 44 Item 1827
87-001/MC11(25) Quebec. 21 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A new map of the Province of Lower Canada, describing all the seigneuries, townships, grants of land, etc. to which is added a plan of the rivers Scoudiac and Magaguadavic, surveyed in 1796, 1797 & 1798 by order of the Commissioners appointed to ascertain the true River St. Croix intended by the Treaty of Peace between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America. London, William Faden, April 12, 1813. Not in Phillips. This is another issue, without any changes except the date imprint of a map first published August 12, 1802 Item 1813
87-001/MC11(27) St. Lawrence, Gulf of. 15 Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772. Carte de Golphe de St. Laurent et pays voisins. Pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages. Paris, 1757. From: Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de, 1682-1761. Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France. Map no. ? See M. Bellin's introduction on maps in vol. III of Charlevoix Item 1757
87-001/MC11(28) St. Lawrence River. 25 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 An exact chart of the River St. Laurence from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti showing the soundings rocks, shoals, etc. with views of the lands and all necessary instructions for navigating that river to Quebec. London, Robert Sayer, May 25, 1775. Originally published: Lond, Thomas Jefferys at Charing Cross, Jan. 25, 1757. Phillips maps p. 762. Phillips Atlases 1165, map no. 9 Item 1775
87-001/001(03) Finlay, Hugh. Autographed letter signed, addressed to James McGill, Quebec, regarding: road construction File 15 October, 1788.
87-001/001(13) An Act of George III to help defray charges of civil government in the Province of Quebec File 1774