Canada : canals and lakes

"Drawn by E.J. Powell, Hydrographic Office, February, 1862."
Details canal routes in the Great Lakes region, with notes giving length, rise, and number of locks.
Part of a report apparently printed privately for the Commissioners Appointed to Consider the Defences of Canada in response to the Trent affair; report includes memoranda signed variously by Richard Collinson, Samuel Keefer, and Wm. Halt [sic] Noble; dated April 29-November 29, 1861.
"Malby & Sons, lith."
Scale [ca. 1:2,250,000]
Former owner: Hermon Dunlap Smith.

Contained In:

In: Canada. Commissioners Appointed to Consider the Defences of Canada. Canada lakes : memoranda on the assistance which can be rendered to the Province of Canada by Her Majesty’s navy in the event of war with the United States. --London : Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., [1862?] --map

Original Collection:

Hermon Dunlap Smith Collection (Newberry Library)

Citation

Powell, E. J., "Canada : Canals and Lakes in Canada", in Commissioners Appointed to Consider the Defences of Canada, Canada Lakes : Memoranda on the Assistance Which can be Rendered to the Province of Canada by Her Majesty’s Navy in the Event of War with the United States (London : Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., [1862?]), at end. Case folio UG413 .C36 1862

Newberry Call Number:

Case folio UG413 .C36 1862

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Geographic Area Covered:

Great Lakes Region

Original Resource:

Digital reproduction of: 1 map : hand col. ; 31 x 64 cm., on sheet 34 x 75 cm., folded to 34 x 21 cm.

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Canada: Lakes and Canals, 1862

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