Description
Scarce pictorial map celebrating the history of the Hudson's Bay Company, published in Toronto.
Fine large format map drawn by Toronto Artist Stanley Turner, one of the best known WWII map illustrators.
The map is filled with historical information and vignettes illustrating fauna, railways, explorers, inhabitants, ships, canoes &c. Examples include: “Fort Whoop-Up Whiskey-traders flee from the Mounted Police 1874”; “Buffalo almost exterminated 1880’s”; “Marble Island James Knight perishes in his hopeless search for gold 1721” &c.
We have seen date estimates for the map ranging from 1938 to 1965.