Canada’s West – 1903 Engraved Map by Johnston – Unique and Historic

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Canada’s West – 1903 Engraved Map by Johnston – Unique and Historic

Name: Canada’s West – 1903 Engraved Map by Johnston – Unique and Historic
Brand: W. & A. K. Johnston
SKU: BG-13577-44
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1903
Maker: W. & A. K. Johnston
Kind: Maps
Size: 47 × 36.8 cm (18.5 × 14.5 in)
Condition: Good. The map’s condition is excellent, with clear, sharp impressions and only minor signs of age-related toning, adding to its antique charm.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-13577-44

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

Western Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century, "Dominion of Canada (Western Sheet)," a color-printed map published in 1903 by W. & A.K. Johnston of Edinburgh and London. The title and scale bars sit at the upper right, with the credit line "by T.R. Johnston."

The sheet is dominated by the mountains of British Columbia, drawn with shaded relief and tinted in orange and brown along the Pacific coast and the Rocky Mountains. The coast is detailed to the last inlet and island, with Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands at the left, while the Pacific Ocean is lettered at lower left. Across the top, the huge districts of Mackenzie and Athabasca hold great lakes in blue, and Saskatchewan and Assiniboia are named in the lower right. At the bottom, a strip of the United States shows the border along the forty-ninth parallel, with the American northwest labeled below it. Boundaries are outlined in color, and rivers and trails thread across the map.

At the date of this sheet, the districts of the old Northwest Territories were about to be reorganized: Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905.

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