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A major producer of the surveys that developed into The Atlantic Neptune was Capt. Samuel Holland, Surveyor General for the Northern District. Holland's survey of St. John's Island – modern-day Prince Edward Island – was his first task performed for The General Survey of North America, where systematic surveys were executed according to the latest scientific principles. With explicit instructions from the Board of Trade, Holland divided the island into a grid-system of counties, parishes, and townships of uniform size. French and indigenous place names were changed to commemorate British royal figures, expressing the Empire's power in the region.
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6t053n77m
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A plan of the island of St. John with the divisions of the counties, parishes, & the lots as granted by government, likewise the soundings round the coast and harbours
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map
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6t053n77m
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map
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normalized
title
A plan of the island of St. John with the divisions of the counties, parishes, & the lots as granted by government, likewise the soundings round the coast and harbours
description
A major producer of the surveys that developed into The Atlantic Neptune was Capt. Samuel Holland, Surveyor General for the Northern District. Holland's survey of St. John's Island – modern-day Prince Edward Island – was his first task performed for The General Survey of North America, where systematic surveys were executed according to the latest scientific principles. With explicit instructions from the Board of Trade, Holland divided the island into a grid-system of counties, parishes, and townships of uniform size. French and indigenous place names were changed to commemorate British royal figures, expressing the Empire's power in the region.
date
["[1775]"]
year
1775
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_006204
creators
Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Prince Edward Island--Administrative and political divisions--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Canada
North and Central America
Province of Prince Edward Island
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Canada
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largeImageUrl
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1
source
import
pubPlace
London
publisher
Printed & sold by A. Dury
Source extras
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sf268508b
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dn39z222j
schema:latitude
46.3333
schema:longitude
-63.5
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 70 cm.
notes
Depths shown by soundings.
Oriented with north toward the upper left.
Includes table of administrative divisions and inset of "Gulf of St. Lawrence."
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=47.
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6t053n77m
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