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We Are One: Surveyor James Cook worked with Surveyor General Samuel Holland to map the new British territories in Canada after the French and Indian War. Cook created this map of Halifax in 1766. Previously, the fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island was the principal French settlement in Nova Scotia. During the French and Indian War, however, the British successfully used Halifax as a counterforce to Louisbourg. Halifax served as a British naval base throughout the war and became Nova Scotia’s major city and port after the British victory.
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9s161d420
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A draught of the harbour of Hallifax and the adjacent coast in Nova Scotia
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map
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9s161d420
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map
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normalized
title
A draught of the harbour of Hallifax and the adjacent coast in Nova Scotia
description
We Are One: Surveyor James Cook worked with Surveyor General Samuel Holland to map the new British territories in Canada after the French and Indian War. Cook created this map of Halifax in 1766. Previously, the fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island was the principal French settlement in Nova Scotia. During the French and Indian War, however, the British successfully used Halifax as a counterforce to Louisbourg. Halifax served as a British naval base throughout the war and became Nova Scotia’s major city and port after the British victory.
date
["1766"]
year
1766
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_003751
creators
Cook, James, active 1762-1775
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Halifax Harbour (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Nova Scotia--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Canada
Halifax Harbour
North and Central America
Nova Scotia
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Canada
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1
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import
pubPlace
[London]
publisher
James Cook
Source extras
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sf268508b
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dn39z222j
schema:latitude
44.6167
schema:longitude
-63.55
extent
1 chart col. ; 52 x 58 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Depths shown by soundings.
Includes references.
"Humbly dedicated to Henry Ellis Esqr. F.R.S. late Governor of Nova Scotia."
The cartographer of this map, Master James Cook of the surveying ships Mars (1762-1763) and Alarm (1763-1766), should not be confused with the explorer Captain James Cook (1728-1779), who mapped Newfoundland and made 3 voyages to the Pacific Ocean.
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=46.
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9s161d420
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