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 ...

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 ...

When Saskatchewan and Alberta were created in 1905, Saskatchewan became Canada's third largest province, Manitoba remained the fourth largest, and Alberta became the fifth largest. Winnipeg was ...

This is an original copy of the Crow's Nest Pass Agreement signed by the Canadian government and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Dated September 6, 1897, the railway was given a cash subsidy of $3.3 ...

Napier was hired as an engineer on Hind's expedition to Red River. Trained as a topographical artist, he sketched a number of scenes while en route to Red River, as well as different winter activities ...

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 ...

As evident in Palliser's 1865 map, much of his exploratory science consisted of what historian Suzanne Zeller has called "inventory science." Palliser identified transportation routes, catalogued ...

During his stay at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Pitt, Kane sketched this portrait of a Cree chief with face paint and a ceremonial wolf skin. The chief was participating in a vengeance party that ...

Since the medal used in Treaties 1 and 2 was considered too small and the design inappropriate, a substitute medal was commissioned by the federal government in 1872 from silversmith Robert Hendry of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...