1966 · Maps
The History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Published in 1966
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- Date
- 1966
- Kind
- Maps
- Size
- 48.5 × 69.3 cm (19.1 × 27.3 in)
- Condition
- Good. Very good. There are a few tiny creases and minor spots in the blank margins, otherwise fine.
- Period
- The Twentieth Century
- Places
- Canada
- Reference
- f_35458932
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.
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About this piece
A pictorial map of Canada celebrating the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, drawn by Peter R. Furse and published in 1966 by Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited. The map was produced with the cooperation of the RCMP, as acknowledged in a cartouche at lower right. Its headings explain the story: the North West Mounted Police received the prefix Royal in 1904, and became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920 when their duties became federal instead of regional.
Canada is drawn in warm yellow against pale blue seas, filled with small scenes of Mounties in action and long notes on the force's history. The RCMP Musical Ride gallops across northern Quebec, chains of dog sled teams mark the Arctic Circle, and the force's badge crowns the map at top center. A legend at lower left, wreathed in native flora, identifies forts, posts, detachments, air and marine division bases, and "whiskey forts". Vignettes of important events appear at left and right and along the border, and a decorative band of small scenes frames the sheet.
Furse (1901 to 1970), born in England, settled in New Brunswick in 1962 and made pictorial maps in a style that joins twentieth-century graphic design to the elegance of earlier mapmaking.
