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Document identity
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z603vh430
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Carte du havre de Chibucto avec le plan de la ville de Halifax sur la coste de l'Accadia ou Nova Scotia latitude 44° 31ʹ
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map
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1
Source metadata
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z603vh430
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map
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normalized
title
Carte du havre de Chibucto avec le plan de la ville de Halifax sur la coste de l'Accadia ou Nova Scotia latitude 44° 31ʹ
description
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date
["1750"]
year
1750
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
creators
Rocque, John, -1762
Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771
institution
Boston Athenaeum
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Boston Athenaeum, Cartographic Collection
subjects
Halifax (N.S.)--Pictorial works
Halifax (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Acadia--Maps--Early works to 1800
Bedford Bay (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Halifax Harbour (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Bedford Bay
Canada
Halifax
Halifax Harbour
North and Central America
Nova Scotia
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Canada
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pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[London]
publisher
Publiée par hautorité par Jean Rocque, Charing Cross
Source extras
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4t64hr19t
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dn39z222j
schema:latitude
44.6167
schema:longitude
-63.55
extent
1 map : col. 56 x 44 cm., sheet 69 x 52 cm.
notes
Depths shown by soundings, contours and shading.
Hand-colored.
"Publish'd by authority of John Rocque at Charing Cross, 1750"--Lower margin of map.
Dedication in cartouche: "To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner of trade & plantations &c. &c. This chart of Chibucto Harbour, on the coast of Accadia, or Nova Scotia, with the plan of the town of Halifax; is most humbly inscrib'd by his Lordship's most obedient servant, John Rocque." View of buildings and a mill, presumably the new town of Halifax.
Inset at lower left: Plan of the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia.
Engraved map.
In French and English.
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z603vh430
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map
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photo
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