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Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Haro and Rosario Straits. Admiralty chart 2689....
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1654
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This record is about the Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Haro and Rosario Straits. Admiralty chart 2689.... dating from 1841-1872 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1654
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1841-1872
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Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Haro and Rosario Straits. Admiralty chart 2689. 'North America West Coast Haro and Rosario Straits Surveyed by Captain G H Richards and The Officers of H M S Plumper 1858-9'. Reference table. Magnetic variation in 1859. Compass roses. With coloured manuscript boundaries through the Gulf of Georgia and Haro Strait. Coasts based on American surveys of 1841 and Captain H Kellett's survey, 1847. Reduced from the originals and drawn for engraving by Edward J Powell. Engraved by J and C Walker. Published at the Admiralty, London, 28 July 1859.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 1:145800
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- Engraved
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 493
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3818218/
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Area now in Canada: British Columbia: Haro and Rosario Straits. Admiralty chart 2689....
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