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Map of Pacific
This source is a map of the Pacific Ocean showing Hawaii at its center. The map highlights Hawaii’s importance to the US in that it was at the heart of all of America’s trade dealings in the Pacific at the time. The United States had access to…
Map of Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands
The 19th century map of Hawaii shows the 137 Hawaiian islands. Before European exploration, education was more skill based and home taught. This gives the map reader a good idea of how European exploration westernised education to create such a…
Dakin Fire Insurance Maps 1906 Map 5
This is Map 5 of a collection of Fire Insurance Maps drawn up of Honolulu in 1906. The collection of maps shows the various industries that are in Honolulu such as canning and slaughter houses. These wouldn’t have been traditional Hawaiian industries…
British Columbia railway belt
The source is a map showing the railway belt across British Columbia.
The map contains a coloured key showing the different areas of the land. For example, Indian reserves, forest reserves and parks and most significantly the land disposed of by…
The map contains a coloured key showing the different areas of the land. For example, Indian reserves, forest reserves and parks and most significantly the land disposed of by…
Molokai Map
A map produced for a Hawaiian government survey of the island of Molokai. The place names are described in Hawaiian, but the text at the bottom is in English. During 1897, there was an effort to annex Hawaii, which succeeded the following year, and…
Pearl Lochs Map
The map displays the area that would come to be known as Pearl Harbour. It shows that mapmakers may have used local knowledge (in this case place names) to effectively map out the territories which they were interested in exploiting. This is also…
Illustrated map of Vancouver area with indigenous place names
A map of the Vancouver and North Shore area, illustrated with animals and trees and a totem pole. The map, created by Englishwoman Jessiman who moved to Canada in 1928, appears to be hand-drawn with ink and pencil on paper and measures 56cm x 77cm.…
Map of City of Vancouver Parks
A base map from the City of Vancouver Engineering Department with the City’s parks hand-coloured in green. The base map was created in 1978, with the hand drawing demarcating the City’s parks added in 1980. The map identifies city blocks, the…