Author: DAWSON, S. J.
Title: Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement [Etc. ]
Description: Toronto, John Lovell, Printer, 1858. Leather Bound. pp. 45, maps. Large 4to. Bound in older half blue morocco over lighter blue cloth boards,This item was published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (as it was then called). It had previously been published by Dawson in 1858. This version also includes a letter by Bishop Tache (the bishop of St. Boniface) on the Red River settlement and the 'half-breeds' in the settlement. See Peel #207. It contains a coloured map showing 'the Route by Road & Navigation for Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans', as well as two very long folding maps; one showing the 'Profile of Route by the Grand Portage and Pigeon River from Lake Superior to Rainy Lake', and the other being a 'Plan Shewing the Region Explored by S. J. Dawson and his party between Fort William and the great Saskatchewan River'. The maps are in nice condition, with usual creasing and edge chipping but no significant defects. The folding maps are all creased, as is to be expected when two of them are so long and have so many folds. Text is in vg cond. Ill.: Three folding maps.

Keywords: Winnipeg;Manitoba;Exploration;Red River;Saskatchewan;Hudson's Bay Co;Indians;Canoe; Three folding maps


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