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1 item extracted from WO 1/557 ( ff 242-3). North America: 'Route from York Factory...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/12
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from WO 1/557 ( ff 242-3). North America: 'Route from York Factory... dating from 1846 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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- 1846
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1 item extracted from WO 1/557 ( ff 242-3). North America: 'Route from York Factory to Lake Winnipeg'. Map showing the stages in a journey [presumably that of the Franklin expedition] between 9 September and 8 October 1819. Scale: 1 inch to about 19 miles. Reference table. Drawn by L J Hebert, Horse Guards, May 1846. Title extended in red ink to read: 'Route from York Factory to Lake Winnipeg made in a Canoe with Sir G. Simpson, Govr. H. Bay in the Autumn of 1846. J. Crofton, Major 6th Foot Comdg Troops H. Bay'. Red ink additions also show stages in a journey along the same rivers between 24 August and 2 September 1846.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 595
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