Nova Scotia – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:19:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Nova Scotia – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The CBC on Inaccessible Flood Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/09/the-cbc-on-inaccessible-flood-maps/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:19:53 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1818804 More]]>

As the CBC’s evening news program The National reports, flood maps can be incredibly hard to find, with even municipal maps requiring an NDA to view in some cases. Now this story focuses on Halifax, Nova Scotia in the wake of flash flooding this summer; the situation elsewhere in Canada may be quite different (Quebec’s flood maps, for example, are available online, though only in French).

]]> 1818804 Maclean’s Profiles Nova Scotia’s COGS https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/01/macleans-profiles-nova-scotias-cogs/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:35:51 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3785 More]]> Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre of Geographic Sciences, a tiny, 200-student campus in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, gets two writeups in Canada’s national newsmagazine, Maclean’s, as part of its annual campus guide: its unique marine geomatics program is profiled here, and the W. K. Morrison Special Collection, which I told you about last June, is profiled here.

]]> 3785 Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/11/mikmaw-place-names-digital-atlas/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:41:13 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3284 More]]> A guide to Mi’kmaw place names in Nova Scotia, the Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas was unveiled last year. It’s “an interactive map showing more than 700 place names throughout Nova Scotia, and includes pronunciation, etymology, and other features, such as video interviews with Mi’kmaw Elders.” Flash required (really?). [CBC News]

]]> 3284 The W. K. Morrison Special Collection https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/06/the-w-k-morrison-special-collection/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:08:34 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2136 More]]> bellin-accadie
Jacques Nicolas Bellin, “Carte de l’Accadie et Païs Voisins Pour servir a l’Histoire Generale des Voyages,” 1757. Map, 21 × 33 cm. NSCC W. K. Morrison Special Collection.

Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre of Geographic Sciences has begun digitizing the maps from the W. K. Morrison Special Collection. Morrison, once a cartographer at the Centre, left them his collection of more than 2,500 maps when he died in 2011.

It is a mixed media print collection of historical maps, atlases, periodicals and books that is unique in the Province in terms of its focus on the early mapping of Nova Scotia and specifically the 18th Century nautical charts of J.F.W. DesBarres’ Atlantic Neptune. The collection also contains a complete run of the Gentleman’s Magazine from 1731-1802, and other early European periodicals containing maps not present in other collections. In addition to the maps that cover the advances in geographic knowledge over five centuries, there are a number of important atlases dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries as well as an interesting collection of Nova Scotiana from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

So far about 270 maps have been digitized; they’re available here. Media release (from last December), Chronicle Herald. [WMS]

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