Mapmaker : Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment / Barbara Mitchell.

"As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps, culminating in his mag...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Barbara, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2017]
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505 0 |a 1. From farming to mapmaking -- 2. First assignments -- 3. "Near being in the wars" -- 4. First journal and map -- 5. Up the Albany River -- 6. Three-year contract fulfilled -- 7. Celebrations and disasters -- 8. From surveyor to trader -- 9. Establishes first HBC house at Abitibi -- 10. Decisions to make -- 11. "So much of my life wasted" -- 12. The northward expedition -- 13. "No small breach of trust" -- 14. "A permanent foundation." 
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