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Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver Island. Admiralty chart 1917. 'Vancouver Island...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1383
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- FO 925/1383
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- 1849-1856
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Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver Island. Admiralty chart 1917. 'Vancouver Island and the Gulf of Georgia ...'. Scale: 1 inch to about 16 miles. Compass roses. Sections showing profile of the country. Notes in red ink on the topography and vegetation of the mainland from Admiralty Inlet to Jervis Inlet. Manuscript reference table attached. From the surveys of Captain G Vancouver, Royal Navy, 1793; Captains D Galiano and C Valdés, 1792; and Captain H Kellett, Royal Navy, 1847. Engraved by J and C Walker. Published 28 February 1849. Corrections to 1856.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 64 cm x 51 cm
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- Engraved, coloured
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 563
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