allan
I have a book, published in England in 1904, that has this map of Canada in it and it has always struck me as completely bizarre.
It pre-dates the final expansion of Ontario and Quebec, in 1912 I think, when what is now the north of those provinces were the NWT. But in 1904 so was what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan.
It just wildly confuses provinces, territories, and districts within the NWT. Also it doesn't acknowledge Labrador, which is odd.
allan
Consider, for example, this map from Canadian Geographic of the divisions circa 1905, the next year, in which Alberta and Saskatchewan have turned from districts in the NWT into full-fledged provinces, absorbing the districts of Assiniboia and Athabasca along the way
http://web.ncf.ca/ex591/CG/1905.html
allan
Staring at this, blown up on my computer screen, I think it *does* show Labrador, there is a pink smudge along the coast of Labrador. This is about 3.5"x6" original size and it is not at all obvious.
Also by labelling the Dominion of Canada thusly but not the Newfoundland _Colony_, it implies (wrongly) that Newfoundland was a part of Canada.
allan
I do love just what places were on the map and what places were not. For example: Ft. Providence is on the map but Yellowknife, the capital of the NWT today, is not. Because Yellowknife wasn't incorporated as a town until the 1930s.
Battleford is there but Saskatoon, the largest city in Saskatchewan, is not. Saskatoon has been around since the 1880s, it was settled by the Temperance Colonization Society to be a dry town, but didn't incorporate as a city until 1906.
Also: Rat Portage
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