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Aboriginal Map of North America denoting the Boundaries and the Locations of various Indian Tribes. (1857)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Aboriginal Map of North America denoting the Boundaries and the Locations of various Indian Tribes. (1857) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu562 wsu 562; 979.514 G798r http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,705 |
| Creator | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company. |
| Date | 1857 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | [London : s.n.] |
| Description | 1 map: hand col., 48 x 58 cm. The Hudson's Bay Company had grown from being a small fur company to a powerful monopoly which held exclusive trade rights throughout western Canada. This maps comes from a British Parliamentary Committee report on the Hudson's Bay Company which resulted in the HBC being stripped of their exclusive rights in south central Canada (in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), with the land being turned over to Canada for settlement. |
| Subject | Hudson's Bay Company.; North America -- Maps; Indians of North America -- Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | North America |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.5 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Is found in Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix . and index : communicated from the Commons to the Lords : ordered to be printed 17th August 1857. |
