Carte d'une partie du Lac Superior : avec la découverte de la riviere depuis le grand portage A jusqu'au Lac Ouinpigon, où on a construit le fort Maurepas -- le fort.

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Chaussegros de Léry, Gaspard-Joseph, 1682-1756, cartographer.

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Superior, Lake--Maps.

Superior, Lake.

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 map).

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, approximately 1850]

Summary:

Tracing by Pierre Margry made c.1850 from 1734 manuscript map in the Service Hydrographique by military engineer Joseph-Gaspard Chaussegros de Léry. Based on 1732 manuscript map by Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais. Shows large region in Western Canada and the West (U.S.), but most detailed in the area roughly bounded by the northern shore of Lake Superior, the Pigeon River, Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, and the Assiniboine River. Identifies forts, villages, Indian regions, the route to and 'Riviere de l'Ouest', and the 'chemin des guerriers'.

Notes:

AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 192

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

Scale c.1:1,958,000. Obscured on verso: 'Mr. de la Verendrye' [?]: possible reference to Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la Vérendrye.

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