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Plans of Government property in Canada. (1) 'Skeleton Map Shewing... the relative...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/126
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This record is about the Plans of Government property in Canada. (1) 'Skeleton Map Shewing... the relative... dating from 1851 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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- MPH 1/126
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1851
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Description (What the record is about)
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Plans of Government property in Canada. (1) 'Skeleton Map Shewing... the relative positions of the Ord ce Properties and Military Reserves in Canada West, exclusive of those along the Rideau Canal, and more fully detailed on the accompanying Plans ...'. Key to properties, with acreage; a note reads: 'Besides the above, the Islands at the Sault St. Mary, and parts, or the whole, of the I. St. Joseph, are considered as Military Reserves'. Green colour added to show the boundary with the United States of America. (2-30) 29 plans of individual properties: Penetaugushene, Nottawasaga, Point Edward, Windsor, Amherstburgh (Bois Blanc Island), Point Pelée, Rondeau, Chatham, London, Turkey Point, Port Maitland, Fort Erie, Chippawa, Lyons Creek, Queenston, Niagara, Short Hills, Burlington Heights, Toronto, Cape Vesey, Snake Island, Horse Shoe Island, Cataraqui Bay, Kingston, Grants Island, Prescot, Cornwall, Fighting Island. All 30 sheets (signed) R Pilkington, draughtsman, and Henry Vavasour, Col CRE Canada, 26 October 1850. Drawn in transfer lithography by J G Kelly. Printed at the Lithographic Establishment, Quarter Master General's Department, Horse Guards, January 1851.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1047; WO 38/77; WOD 77
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 40.9 cm x 54.1 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 1415
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561933/
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