Mapmaker : Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment /

"As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps, culminating in his mag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Barbara, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2017]
Temas:
Turnor, Philip, > 1751?-1800?
Turnor, Philip, > 1752?-1800?
Hudson's Bay Company > Employees > Biography.
Hudson's Bay Company
Surveyors > Canada > Biography.
Cartographers > Canada > Biography.
Explorers > Canada > Biography.
Fur traders > Canada > Biography.
Géomètres > Canada > Biographies.
Cartographes > Canada > Biographies.
Coureurs de bois > Canada > Biographies.
HISTORY > Canada > Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
HISTORY > Expeditions & Discoveries.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Cartographers
Discoveries in geography
Employees
Explorers
Fur traders
Surveyors
Canada > Discovery and exploration.
Canada
Biography
Turnor, Philip
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. From farming to mapmaking
  • 2. First assignments
  • 3. "Near being in the wars"
  • 4. First journal and map
  • 5. Up the Albany River
  • 6. Three-year contract fulfilled
  • 7. Celebrations and disasters
  • 8. From surveyor to trader
  • 9. Establishes first HBC house at Abitibi
  • 10. Decisions to make
  • 11. "So much of my life wasted"
  • 12. The northward expedition
  • 13. "No small breach of trust"
  • 14. "A permanent foundation."

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