{"product_id":"canada-map-1872-regional-print-ottawa-toronto-montreal","title":"Canada Map 1872 Regional Print - Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge prepared this map of British North America for Edward Stanford's 1872 edition of the Family Atlas, an updated printing of the same eighty-map, steel-engraved reference the Society had issued in 1865, now revised to reflect five years of rapid change since Confederation. The atlas paired its regional maps with a geological map of England and Wales and star maps by Sir John Lubbock, an unusually broad scope for a single reference work, and this sheet's steel engraving and hand colouring carried over the same crisp house style established in the earlier edition. Where the 1865 printing had shown a scattering of separate British colonies, this 1872 revision maps a single Dominion of Canada, stretching from the Maritimes to a newly admitted British Columbia on the Pacific, the boundary changes of Confederation and its aftermath redrawn across the whole sheet. It captures the young Dominion barely a year after British Columbia joined in 1871 and Manitoba's own 1870 admission, still assembling itself into the shape it holds today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOttawa, chosen as the Dominion capital in 1857 for its defensible position between Canada East and Canada West, anchors the sheet's centre. Toronto, further south on Lake Ontario, appears as Ontario's largest city and the commercial hub of the newly formed province. Montreal, downriver on the St. Lawrence, is marked as the Dominion's largest city overall, its port still the busiest inland harbour in British North America. Together these three cities, spread across barely more than a day's rail journey from one another, sketch the tightly clustered core around which a much larger, still loosely settled Dominion had begun to organize itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis broad sheet suits a Canadian family researching roots anywhere in the newly confederated Dominion, or a collector drawn to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's distinctive steel-engraved house style. The store also carries British North America mapped in this same atlas's earlier 1865 edition, before Confederation had reshaped the map at all, and again by Rand McNally in a leaner 1897 commercial edition; this 1872 sheet captures the Dominion at its earliest and most unsettled moment, the ink on Manitoba's and British Columbia's admission barely dry. It's offered unframed and available across a full range of sizes, from a compact print to a large-format wall piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888055115,"sku":"SKU2085-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888087883,"sku":"SKU2085-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888120651,"sku":"SKU2085-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888153419,"sku":"SKU2085-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888186187,"sku":"SKU2085-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888218955,"sku":"SKU2085-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888251723,"sku":"SKU2085-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888284491,"sku":"SKU2085-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582888317259,"sku":"SKU2085-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU2085.jpg?v=1790219971","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/canada-map-1872-regional-print-ottawa-toronto-montreal","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}