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2 items extracted from CO 60/24 (folios 69, 70). Both titled 'British Columbia. Coast...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/650
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from CO 60/24 (folios 69, 70). Both titled 'British Columbia. Coast... dating from 1862-[1864] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPG 1/650
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1862-[1864]
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items extracted from CO 60/24 (folios 69, 70). Both titled 'British Columbia. Coast lines from Admiralty Charts, interior from Explorations by Royal Engineers and others up to 1862. North of Fraser River from Mr. Arrowsmith. East of Columbia River from Captain Palliser ...'. Scale: 1 inch to 50 miles. Reduced and drawn by J Conroy, RE. Prepared under the direction of Capt Parsons, RE, at the Office of Lands & Works, New Westminster, August 1862, by order of R C Moody, Col RE. Lithographed by W Oldham, RE. MS additions show the dioceses of New Westminster and Columbia with Vancouver: on (1) the diocese of Columbia with Vancouver includes the Queen Charlotte Islands and a large tract of mainland British Columbia; on (2) the diocese of Columbia with Vancouver is confined to Vancouver Island and adjacent small islands; the diocese of New Westminster includes the whole of mainland British Columbia and the Queen Charlotte Islands.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 45.5 cm x 52.3 cm
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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 409
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981339/
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2 items extracted from CO 60/24 (folios 69, 70). Both titled 'British Columbia. Coast...
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