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BC Lands Map Central 1892

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Map of the central portion of British Columbia. British Columbia Department of Lands and Works, 1892

Map of the central portion of British Columbia.
British Columbia Department of Lands and Works, 1892
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

Map of the central portion of British Columbia compiled and drawn by direction of the Honorable F.G. Vernon, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works
Victoria, B.C.
1892
Gotfred Jorgensen, Draughtsman.

Note along the South Fork of the Fraser River:

From the Grand Rapids to Cranberry River (185 miles) the South Fork might be navigated by steamers of light draft. The fall, 2 feet to a mile, is nearly uniform.

Note at Tête Jaune Cache: Iroquois I. Vill.

This map includes:
Albreda Lake
Bad River (James Creek)
Baptiste River
Bear River
Boat Encampment
Brûlé Lake [as “Burnt Lake”]
Canoe River
Cariboo District
Columbia River
Committee Punch Bowl
Cowdung Lake
Cranberry Lake
Fort George
Grand Fork
Grand Rapids
Henry House
Jarvis Cache
Jasper House
Jasper Lake
Kinbasket Lake
Little Smoky River (Athabasca0
Maligne River
Miette River
Moose Lake
Moose River
North Branch of North Fork Fraser River
Fraser River North Fork
North Thompson River
Parsnip River
Rau’ Shuswap [as “Rau Shuswap R.”]
Shuswap River [as “Rau Shuswap R.”]
Small Creek [as “Small R.”]
Smoky River
Snake Indian River
South Branch of North Fork Fraser River
Tête Jaune Cache [Note: Iroquois I. Vill]
Wapiti River
Whirlpool River
Willow River
Wood River

Cram’s map British Columbia 1913

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British Columbia. Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.

British Columbia.
Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center


British Columbia [detail]. Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.

British Columbia [detail].
Published by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago,Ill.
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

This map appeared in the Vancouver News Advertiser on 19 February 1913.

George Franklin Cram [1842-1928] was an American map publisher. He served in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Upon mustering out he joined his uncle Rufus Blanchard’s Evanston, Illinois, map business in 1867. Two years later, he became sole proprietor of the firm and renamed it the George F. Cram Co. which became a leading map firm in the United States.

The map indicates the constructon of both the Grand Trunk Pacific Railwayand the Canadian Northern Railway, both traversing the Yellowhead Pass and branching at Tête Jaune Cache.

On the Grand Trunk route following the Fraser River between Tête Jaune Cache and Fort George there are no settlements indicated. South of Tête Jaune Cache the first settlements along the CNoR are near Kamloops on the North Thompson River.

This map includes:
Athabasca River
Athabasca Pass
Bad River (James Creek)
Baker Creek (Canoe)
Baptiste River
Bear River
Boat Encampment
Mount Brown [as “Mt. Brown 9,050”]
Brûlé Lake [as “Burnt Lake”]
Canoe River
Cranberry Lake
Finlay River
Fitzhugh
Foster Creek
Geikie
Mount Geikie
Goat River
Grand Forks River
Henry House
Mount Hooker
Edward Worrell Jarvis [1846–1894]
Jarvis Cache
Jasper Lake
Jasper House
Kinbasket Lake
Little Smoky River (Morkill)
Lucerne (GTP railway point)
Maligne River
Moose Lake
Fraser River North Fork
North Branch of North Fork Fraser River
North Thompson River
Parsnip River
Peace River
Rainbow (GTP railway point)
Rau’ Shuswap
Resplendent (GTP railway point)
Mount Robson [as “Robson Pk. 13,700”]
Sand Creek
Small Creek [as “Small R.”]
Smoky River
Snake Indian River
South Branch of North Fork Fraser River
South Fork Fraser River
Swiftcurrent Creek
Swift Creek
Swiftwater
Tête Jaune Cache
Wapiti River
Whirlpool River
Wood River
Yellowhead Lake
Yellowhead (railway point)
References:

Indigenous people

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Indigenous people

Harmon’s map interior of North America 1820 shows the following Indian distribution:

East of the Rocky Mountains:
Beaver Indians — around the Peace River from headwaters to Fort Chipewyan
Cree or Knisteneaux Indians — around the Saskatchewan River drainage
Sursee Indians — around headwaters of the Athabasca River

West of the Rockies:
Sicanny Indians — north of Fraser River
Carrier (Dakelh) or Tacully Indians — around upper Fraser River

References:

  • Harmon, Daniel Williams [1778–1843]. A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the interior of North America between the 47th and 58th degree of North latitude, extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of about 5000 miles, including an account of the Principal occurrences during a residence of nearly nineteen years in different parts of that country. To which are added A Concise Description of the face of the Country, Its Inhabitants, their manners, customs, laws, etc.. Burlington, Vermont: 1820, endpocket. Internet Archive

Harmon’s map interior of North America 1820

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Map of the interior of North America, engraved for Harmon’s Journal

Map of the interior of North America, engraved for Harmon’s Journal
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Map of the interior of North America (detail), engraved for Harmon’s Journal

Map of the interior of North America (detail), engraved for Harmon’s Journal

Daniel Williams Harmon [1778–1843] was a fur trader and diarist.

Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Dewey) Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada. He took as a common-law wife Elizabeth (Lizzette) Laval or Duval (ca. 1790 – 1862) in 1805, at South Branch House, Northwest Territory, British America (he legally married in 1819, at Fort William, Ontario, Canada) and had 12 children.

Harmon joined the North West Company in 1800 and gradually moved westward, finally arriving in New Caledonia in 1809. There he served for ten years at Fort Saint James and Fort Fraser.

The map seems largely based on Mackenzie’s map North America 1803.

This map includes:
Finlay River
Fraser River
Unjigah River [as “Unjigah or Peace R.”]
References:

  • Harmon, Daniel Williams [1778–1843]. A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the interior of North America between the 47th and 58th degree of North latitude, extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of about 5000 miles, including an account of the Principal occurrences during a residence of nearly nineteen years in different parts of that country. To which are added A Concise Description of the face of the Country, Its Inhabitants, their manners, customs, laws, etc.. Burlington, Vermont: 1820, endpocket. Internet Archive