(90) Shipping : Foreign shipping -- Domestic coastwise shipping. Compiled from information supplied by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. (Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys.)
2 maps showing shipping in Canada. Each map 23 x 64 cm. Each includes a legend. Scale 1:10,000,000 or one inch to 157.8 miles. Lambert Conformal Conic Projection Standard Parallels 49˚N and 77˚N. Descriptive text on verso: Foreign shipping includes vessels which (1) arrive from a foreign port as las...
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Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical Branch
1958
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| Summary: | 2 maps showing shipping in Canada. Each map 23 x 64 cm. Each includes a legend. Scale 1:10,000,000 or one inch to 157.8 miles. Lambert Conformal Conic Projection Standard Parallels 49˚N and 77˚N. Descriptive text on verso: Foreign shipping includes vessels which (1) arrive from a foreign port as last port of call or depart for a foreign port as first port of call; (2) load cargo for a foreign port; (3) have other than Canadian or United Kingdom registry, even though they may have arrived at a Canadian port from another Canadian port or departed from a Canadian port for another Canadian port . [Date of map inferred based upon atlas data.] First edition was in 1906 (see our 1645.000); second edition 1915 (1646.000). The title page of this edition is dated 1957 but the Foreword is dated 1958, as well as the maps on plates 91, 99 and 110. Atlas contains 110 plates, comprising a total of 505 maps in color; additionally, these maps include 57 insets. Bound in pale green boards with burgundy lettering and spine, including spine title "Atlas Of Canada. 1957” in gilt. Loose-leaf binding allows both removal and insertion of individual maps. Inside front cover: Canadian made product by Copeland-Chatterson Limited, Brampton, Ontario. In the Foreword, Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys Paul Comtois explains, "Since the last Atlas of Canada appeared in 1915, the economy of Canada has expanded in all directions. The population of the country has doubled. Newfoundland has joined it as the tenth province, and scientific surveys have revealed to an ever increasing extent the physical nature of its land and water resources. It is, therefore, the purpose o this edition of the Atlas to present, in maps, an outline of the physical background and the economic development of the nation at mid-century and to show how these factors are interwoven to produce the fabric of the life of our people … " In the Preface, Director of Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical Branch, N.L. Nicholson continues, “ … the Atlas ... |
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