Via Deborah Large Fox, I’ve just discovered The Down Survey of Ireland 1656-58, a searchable, online mapping database with digitized images of all surviving Down survey maps from 1656 to 1658. From the project’s website (at Trinity College Dublin): Taken in…
Maps
Red are brick, blue are stone: Goad’s Insurance Plan of Ottawa
by M.C. Moran • • Comments Off
My paternal grandmother Mary Catherine Lahey was probably born at 308 Gloucester Street in Ottawa. Or, if she was not actually born at 308 Gloucester, certainly she lived at this address from her infancy into the second decade of her life.…
Link
Library and Archives Canada has a digitized copy of Goad’s Insurance plan of the city of Ottawa, Canada, and adjoining suburbs and lumber districts, January 1888, revised January 1901.
Immense Forests (Upper Canada, 1838)
by M.C. Moran • • Comments Off
BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) has an excellent online collection of maps of Québec, with some other regions covered as well. Here, for example, is James Wyld’s A Map of the Province of Upper Canada (London: 1838). I especially…