Digital Image: 1858 Hind Map of the Red River Settlement, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
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Title
Plan Shewing The Proposed Route From Lake Superior To Red River Settlement...
1858 (dated) 37.75 x 62.75 in (95.885 x 159.385 cm) 1 : 1500000
1858 (dated) 37.75 x 62.75 in (95.885 x 159.385 cm) 1 : 1500000
Description
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Cartographer S
Henry Youle Hind (1823 - 1908) was a Canadian geologist and explorer. Born in Nottingham, England, he emigrated to Toronto in 1846. He quickly integrated with the city's scientific community, publishing works on meteorology and teaching at the University of Toronto. Hind was an early advocate of the westward expansion of Canada and the use of railways to achieve that end. His background made him a suitable candidate for two exploration expeditions in 1857-1858 that were planned with the aim of showing the suitability of the western lands (now Manitoba and Saskatchewan) for agriculture and settlement. Hind's reports on these expeditions were important in convincing the broader public in Canada, and in Britain, of the project of westward expansion. After the 1857-1858 expedition, he attempted to organize a third expedition but failed to secure government funding due to economic troubles at the time. Instead, he traveled to England to promote the reports on the 1857-1858 expeditions and was welcomed at the Royal Geographical Society. In 1861, he led a privately-financed expedition to explore Labrador. This reflected a shift in his interests towards the northeast, and he would spend the rest of his career living and working in Labrador and Nova Scotia. More by this mapmaker...
William Henry Edward Napier (1828 - 1894) was a Canadian artist, surveyor, and engineer. He was born in Montreal; his father was a secretary to Lord Elgin, of Elgin Marbles fame. He was trained as a civil engineer by Walter and Frank Shanly in Montreal and also developed his skills as an artist at this time, though his training, if any, is unknown. Napier was chosen as a surveyor for the Canadian government's 1857-1858 Red River Expedition and drew many watercolors during the expedition that were early artistic depictions of the lands of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. After the Red River Expedition, he served as the resident engineer for the Grand Trunk Railway and then worked on several engineering projects in Europe before returning to Canada in 1868 to work on the Intercolonial Railway. In 1870, he moved to Scotland and spent the rest of his life in London and Edinburgh. Learn More...
Simon James Dawson (1818 - 1902) was a Canadian engineer and politician. Born in Scotland, Dawson emigrated to Canada in his youth and was trained as an engineer. He was chosen to join the Canadian government's 1857 Red River Expedition and in 1858 - 1859 surveyed the route of a possible road and conducted explorations between Thunder Bay and Fort Garry. Afterwards, he was tasked with managing the construction of a road (a 'colonization road') along the route he had surveyed which later bore his name. Between the 1870s and 1890s, he joined the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and then the House of Commons of Canada, where he advocated for the rights of native peoples. Learn More...
Source
Hind, H. Y., Report on a Topographical and Geological Exploration of the Canoe Route Between Fort William, Lake Superior, and Fort Garry, Red River..., (Toronto: S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats) 1858.
References
Storm, Colton, A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana, 1894. OCLC 1016227484. Osher Map Library, G3460 1858.D4.