BANQ – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:20:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg BANQ – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Old Maps of Montreal https://www.maproomblog.com/2019/11/old-maps-of-montreal/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:20:48 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1788053 More]]> Map of the City of Montreal (1843)
Adolphus Bourne, Map of the City of Montreal, 1843. 36 × 23 cm. Collection Saint-Sulpice, BAnQ.

MTLBlog digs into the digital holdings of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) to present some vintage maps of Montréal.

The BAnQ has more than 20,000 maps in its digital collection, ranging from the 16th century to the present day; said holdings include maps from before the Conquest, maps of cities, towns and villages (many of them fire insurance maps), and historic topo maps.

]]> 1788053 An 18th-Century Manuscript Map of the St. Lawrence River https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/05/an-18th-century-manuscript-map-of-the-st-lawrence-river/ Wed, 16 May 2018 22:42:41 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785595 More]]>
Jean-Nicolas Bellin, Carte du cours du fleuve St. Laurent, ca. 1733. Manuscript map, 3 sheets, 44.8×61.1 cm. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Another one in French. Last month, Radio-Canada had the story of a manuscript map of the St. Lawrence River that was recently acquired by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. The 18th-century map takes three sheets to trace the course of the St. Lawrence from the Ottawa River to Anticosti Island, and the BANQ’s map librarians have concluded that it’s the work of French philosophe and cartographer Jean-Nicolas Bellin. The map can be viewed on the BANQ’s website, which those who can’t read French should be able to manage. [WMS]

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