The settlement of quarter-section homesteads and preemptions by agriculturalists created a demand for maps that showed the individual landowners in each township. These maps were comparable to a rural ...

This is one of Hime's photographs which accompanied Henry Youle Hind's official report to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, and which was also included in the two-volume popular account of the ...

The trestle bridge at Lethbridge was completed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1909. Spanning 1.6 kilometres across the steep banks of the Oldman River at a maximum height of 314 feet, it is the ...

Before the introduction of the Dominion Lands Act, western lands were held in common by First Nations. In 1872, the Dominion Lands Act introduced the concept of private land ownership and established ...

Hime was just 24 years old when he took this photograph of the Canadian expedition's encampment on the banks of the Red River. Born in Ireland, Hime came to Canada in 1854 and, two years later, joined ...

The Department of the Interior and travel companies with a vested interest in settling the Prairies sometimes joined forces to produce posters that promoted western immigration. The one shown here was ...

In order to fight off starvation at Red River, the colony's Governor, Miles Macdonnell, passed his Pemmican Proclamation (1814), which prohibited the export of provisions from the colony and declared ...

Cette carte, imprimée par l'entreprise torontoise Maclear and Company avant le départ de l'expédition, renferme des observations de Hind écrites à la main sur la campagne entourant la région du lac ...

In 1862, William Hind (brother of Henry Youle Hind) joined the Overlanders, a group of goldseekers who crossed the Prairies in search of the goldfields of the Fraser and Cariboo regions. During the ...

This site provides access to the first set of detailed maps prepared by the Canadian government to show federal electoral boundaries. Most of the electoral districts described in this 1895 atlas are ...

In 1873, several copies of a third silver medal with a more appropriate western theme were ordered from J.S. & A.B. Wyon of London, England, at a cost of $24 each. They featured a bust of Queen ...

In contrast to most nineteenth-century police agencies, the North-West Mounted Police did not recruit its members from the region where it expected to operate. Instead, enlisted members like James ...