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'Map of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Part of Canada'. Scale: 1 inch to about 24...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1881
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This record is about the 'Map of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Part of Canada'. Scale: 1 inch to about 24... dating from 1846-1861 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1881
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1846-1861
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Description (What the record is about)
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'Map of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Part of Canada'. Scale: 1 inch to about 24 miles. Shows the Explored Route in 1846 and 1847 for the proposed Trunk Line of Railway from Halifax to Quebec. With manuscript additions showing routes proposed, examined or with contracts made, in the Canadian provinces and in adjacent parts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Reference tables to routes. Without dates of survey or manuscript additions. The date 1861, in manuscript, presumably records the map's receipt at the Foreign Office. Produced by Captains Robinson and Henderson, Royal Engineers, 31 August 1848.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Lithographed, coloured
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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 202
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3818445/
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FO 925
Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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