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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Mitchell, Barbara, 1944-     Subjects     Turnor, Philip, 1752?-1800?     Hudson's Bay Company -- Employees -- Biography.     Surveyors -- Canada -- Biography.     Cartographers -- Canada -- Biography.     Explorers -- Canada -- Biography.     Fur traders -- Canada -- Biography.     Canada -- Discovery and exploration.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mitchell, Barbara, 1944-       by title:      Mapmaker : Philip Tu...       by call number:      971.03 M681m     Search the Web     Mitchell, Barbara, 1944-     Turnor, Philip, 1752?-1800?     Hudson's Bay Company -- Employees -- Biography.     Surveyors -- Canada -- Biography.     Cartographers -- Canada -- Biography.     Explorers -- Canada -- Biography.     Fur traders -- Canada -- Biography.     Canada -- Discovery and exploration.       MARC Display

Mapmaker : Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment / Barbara Mitchell. by Mitchell, Barbara, 1944- University of Regina Press, c2017. Call #: 971.03 M681m Subjects Turnor, Philip, 1752?-1800?   Hudson's Bay Company -- Employees -- Biography.   Surveyors -- Canada -- Biography.   Cartographers -- Canada -- Biography.   Explorers -- Canada -- Biography.   Fur traders -- Canada -- Biography.   Canada -- Discovery and exploration. ISBN:  9780889775039 (hc.) Description:  xvii, 327 p. : ill, maps ; 25 cm. Notes:  Issued also in electronic format. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  From farming to mapmaking -- First assignments -- "Near being in the wars" -- First journal and map -- Up the Albany River -- Three-year contract fulfilled -- Celebrations and disasters -- From surveyor to trader -- Establishes first HBC house at Abitibi -- Decisions to make -- "So much of my life wasted" -- The northward expedition -- "No small breach of trust" -- "A permanent foundation". Summary:  "As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps, culminating in his magnum opus, a map that was the foundation of all northern geographic knowledge at that time. Barbara Mitchell's biography brings to life the man who taught David Thompson and Peter Fidler how to survey. In her search for Turnor's story, Mitchell discovers her own Cree-Orkney ancestry and that of thousands of others who are descendents of Turnor and his Cree wife."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 971.03 M681m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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