A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.

Uses maps to illustrate the development of Canada from the last ice sheet to the end of the eighteenth century

The Bureau, precursor to Statistics Canada, was founded in 1918 as a centralized national agency to replace piecemeal arrangements which had developed over time

Ontario was known as "Upper Canada" from 1791 to 1841.