THE THREE-MILE SECTIONAL MAPS OF THE CANADIAN WEST
Soon after the Confederation of Canada in 1867, settlement of the Prairies was initially assisted by the preparation of large-scale survey plans. Popular demand for maps at a more convenient scale prompted the Federal Department of the Interior to establish a map series at 6 miles to 1 inch in 1873....
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/f895-84p1-2172-5vn2 2023-12-31T10:06:14+01:00 THE THREE-MILE SECTIONAL MAPS OF THE CANADIAN WEST SEBERT, L. M. 1967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/f895-84p1-2172-5vn2 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/F895-84P1-2172-5VN2 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization volume 4, issue 2, page 112-119 ISSN 0317-7173 1911-9925 Earth-Surface Processes journal-article 1967 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/f895-84p1-2172-5vn2 2023-12-01T08:18:02Z Soon after the Confederation of Canada in 1867, settlement of the Prairies was initially assisted by the preparation of large-scale survey plans. Popular demand for maps at a more convenient scale prompted the Federal Department of the Interior to establish a map series at 6 miles to 1 inch in 1873. By 1891, it became evident that the scale was too small to show necessary map detail and accordingly the Department authorized a new series at 3 miles to 1 inch. This famous sectional map series of the Canadian West eventually increased to 132 sheets covering the great plains, and extending westward to the Pacific, eastward into Ontario and as far north as Dawson City in Yukon Territory. In 1919, a decision was made to convert this series of cadastral plans into topographic maps. The New Series maps remained in production from 1920 to 1955 when they were finally superseded by the 1:250,000 maps of the National Topographic Series. Article in Journal/Newspaper Dawson Yukon University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 4 2 112 119 |
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Soon after the Confederation of Canada in 1867, settlement of the Prairies was initially assisted by the preparation of large-scale survey plans. Popular demand for maps at a more convenient scale prompted the Federal Department of the Interior to establish a map series at 6 miles to 1 inch in 1873. By 1891, it became evident that the scale was too small to show necessary map detail and accordingly the Department authorized a new series at 3 miles to 1 inch. This famous sectional map series of the Canadian West eventually increased to 132 sheets covering the great plains, and extending westward to the Pacific, eastward into Ontario and as far north as Dawson City in Yukon Territory. In 1919, a decision was made to convert this series of cadastral plans into topographic maps. The New Series maps remained in production from 1920 to 1955 when they were finally superseded by the 1:250,000 maps of the National Topographic Series. |
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THE THREE-MILE SECTIONAL MAPS OF THE CANADIAN WEST |
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THE THREE-MILE SECTIONAL MAPS OF THE CANADIAN WEST |
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