Map of North America.
Drawn by J. Arrowsmith.
On this map, the territories claimed by the Hudson’s Bay Company in virtue of the charter granted to them by King Charles the Second, are coloured green the other British territories, pink & those of Russia, yellow.
1857

Map number 8 in Voorhis [1].

An accurate map of North America.
Describing and distinguishing the British, Spanish and French dominions on this great continent;
according to the definitive treaty concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763.
Also all the West India Islands belonging to, and possessed by the several European princes and states. The whole laid down according to the latest and most authentick improvements.
London, Printed for Robt. Sayer.

Attributed to Welsh cartographer Emanuel Bowen [1694–1767].

The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia’s victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years’ War. The signing of the treaty formally ended the conflict between France and Great Britain over control of North America (the Seven Years’ War, known as the French and Indian War in the United States), and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe. Great Britain and France each returned much of the territory that they had captured during the war, but Great Britain gained much of France’s possessions in North America [1].

Ernest Voorhis [1859–1933] in Historic Forts and Trading Posts mistakenly says this map shows Jasper House, “built in 1799 at outlet of Brûlé Lake and called Rocky Mountain House” [2].

Map of the North West Part of Canada.
Indian Territories & Hudson’s Bay
Compiled & Drawn by Thos. Devine, Provincial Land Surveyor & Draftsman, by Order of the Hon. Joseph Cauchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands
Crown Lands Department
Toronto March, 1857.

Profiles of a) Route for Pacific railroad from St. Pauls Mississippi River to Puget Sound No. I, b) Mouth of Kansas River to Fort Vancouver Columbia River No. II. c) Council Bluff Missouri River to San Francisco Pacific Ocean No. III; d) Westport to the River Savier Utah No. IV Erebus & Terror Bay 1 1/2″ x 2 1/4″

Map No. 12 in Voorhis [1].

This map is labeled as “De L’Isle’s Map, 1752” in The Great Company, a history of the Hudson’s Bay Company by Henry Beckles Willson [1869–1942] [1]. Guillaume de L’Isle [1675–1726] was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.

The far northwest area showing a “L. Bernarda” is labelled “Découvertes de Fonte, 1640.” The hatched lines presumably indicate mountains chains.

FONTE, BARTHOLOMEW DE, reputed to have made a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the course of which a passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans was discovered; fl. 1640.

The account of this voyage, first published in the Monthly Miscellany or Memoirs for the Curious, April and June 1708, took the form of a letter by de Fonte in which he described himself as “then Admiral of New Spain and Peru, and now Prince of Chili.” This apocryphal account is now attributed to the editor or owner of the London magazine, James Petiver. There is no reliable evidence to authenticate either the existence of de Fonte himself or of the voyage. The publication of this highly imaginative account led to a lively controversy in the mid-18th century in which Arthur Dobbs, the Irish challenger of the exclusive charter rights of the HBC and a proponent of the discovery of the northwest passage by de Fonte, was joined by Henry Ellis and Theodorus Swaine Drage in arguing in favour of the authenticity of the account. Of even greater interest was the manner in which two prominent French geographers, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and Phillipe Buache, attempted to interpret de Fonte’s imaginary geography in maps, notably the “Carte générale des découvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte et autres navigateurs espagnols, anglois et russes, pour la recherche du Passage à la Mer du Sud” published in November 1752 (see J.-N. Delisle, Nouvelles cartes des découvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte (Paris, 1753) ) [2].

Map of Canada Showing Historic Forts and Trading Posts
Department of the Interior, 1930
Prepared by National Development Bureau