Antique Map of the North West Territories, Before Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1899

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Antique Map of the North West Territories, Before Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1899

Name: Antique Map of the North West Territories, Before Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-79
Price: 330 USD
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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 36 × 52 cm (14.2 × 20.5 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, a small dark spot in the upper left margin and minor wear to the sheet edges. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-12793-2-79

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The North West Territories of Canada, an original color lithograph by Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago, printed in 1899 on page 368 of the firm's indexed atlas. The side margin is lettered "Rand, McNally & Co's Northwest Territories." The outline is printed in black with the colors printed over it.

The sheet shows the pre-provincial districts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Assiniboia, the Canadian prairie west before Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905, from the Rocky Mountains and the edge of British Columbia in the west to the Manitoba line in the east, with the United States along the foot. A red legend at upper left, headed "Northwest Territories Railroads," numbers three lines: the Alberta Railway & Coal Co., the Canadian Pacific with its Dominion Express service, and the Manitoba & North-Western. The Canadian Pacific crosses the southern part of the sheet through Regina, and a secondary line runs north toward Prince Albert. Indian reserves, including the Blackfoot, Sarcee, Stony and Peigan reserves in Alberta, are outlined and named, and the Rockies and Cypress Hills are drawn in hachured relief.

The map records the prairie west as federal territory, on the eve of the settlement boom that preceded provincehood.

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