Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment by Barbara Mitchell

Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment

Barbara Mitchell

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

biography history informative medium-paced
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As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 t...

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