{"product_id":"eastern-ontario-map-1881-county-print-ottawa-kingston-brockville","title":"Eastern Ontario Map 1881 County Print - Ottawa, Kingston, Brockville","description":"\u003cp\u003eD. MacDonald prepared this map of the counties of Prince Edward, Lennox, Addington, Frontenac, Leeds, Lanark, Renfrew, Grenville, Dundas, Stormont, Glengarry, Carleton, Russell, Prescott, Pontiac and Ottawa for H. Belden \u0026amp; Co.'s Illustrated Atlas of the Dominion of Canada, published in Toronto in 1881. This particular variant edition omits MacDonald's name from the title page and lists Belden as publisher, and pairs the eastern Ontario county maps with entirely different local views covering the Eastern Townships and southwestern Quebec, a publishing pattern similar to the way the contemporary Andreas Iowa Atlas varied its content by congressional district. The atlas as a whole was bound in half leather with dark brown cloth boards, gold stamped on the front cover, and included engravings of lot and street plans, town layouts and sketches of historical farm residences alongside its color county maps. Several engravers contributed to the underlying survey work, including H.H. Lloyd \u0026amp; Co., J.W. Dawson, James Robb, J.B. Jukes and W.E. Logan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map covers the full sweep of eastern Ontario's county geography, showing major cities, rivers and lakes with depth indicated by isolines and the meridian set to Greenwich, a more internationally standardized reference point than the Washington meridian common on earlier American-published Canada maps. Its legend marks post offices, telegraph stations and ports of entry, alongside complete and incomplete railroads and the distances between towns measured over the region's post roads, reflecting the priority Canadian mapmakers placed on communication and transport. Ottawa, the Dominion capital, anchors the map's northwestern reach along the Ottawa River, while Kingston, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, and Brockville, on the St. Lawrence River, both sit within the mapped county coverage further southeast. This period saw rapid growth in eastern Ontario driven substantially by railroad expansion, a development the map's careful marking of complete versus incomplete lines captures directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis detailed county atlas map makes a fitting gift for an eastern Ontario family with roots in any of the sixteen counties it covers, or for an Ottawa or Kingston transplant interested in the region's railroad-era development specifically. Its unusual publishing history, as a variant Belden edition without MacDonald's name and paired with an entirely different set of Quebec views, gives it particular interest for a collector of Canadian county atlas variants. It's supplied unframed and available across our full range of sizes, from a small desk print to a large-format piece for a bigger wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837264715,"sku":"SKU2049-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837297483,"sku":"SKU2049-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837330251,"sku":"SKU2049-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837363019,"sku":"SKU2049-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837395787,"sku":"SKU2049-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837428555,"sku":"SKU2049-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837461323,"sku":"SKU2049-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837494091,"sku":"SKU2049-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582837526859,"sku":"SKU2049-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU2049.jpg?v=1790215606","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/eastern-ontario-map-1881-county-print-ottawa-kingston-brockville","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}