{"product_id":"ontario-map-1859-regional-print-toronto-niagara-falls-hamilton","title":"Ontario Map 1859 Regional Print - Toronto, Niagara Falls, Hamilton","description":"\u003cp\u003eSamuel Augustus Mitchell drew this map of Canada West, formerly Upper Canada, published by Charles Desilver of Philadelphia and copyrighted in 1859, appearing in this particular example within an 1864 printing of Mitchell's New Universal Atlas, the final edition of a series that had run continuously since its 1836 launch under the earlier Tanner imprint. Desilver's 1864 edition marked the culmination of that twenty-eight-year run, incorporating updated maps of Pennsylvania, Kansas, Mexico and Northern Italy alongside revised copyright dates across many of the atlas's individual sheets. The map covers the region known historically as Upper Canada, renamed Canada West following the 1840 Act of Union that merged it with Lower Canada into the single Province of Canada, now corresponding to southern Ontario. Counties are tinted in distinct color across the sheet, with relief shown by hachures in the technical convention typical of American commercial atlas cartography of this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo insets accompany the main map: one detailing the city of Toronto and its environs, the other covering the vicinity of Niagara Falls, both reflecting the two most significant urban and tourist destinations within Canada West at the time. The map's coverage extends south to take in parts of Michigan and New York, underscoring the close geographic interconnection of the Great Lakes region across the international border. Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario all appear prominently labeled, their combined shipping and trade routes central to Canada West's mid-century economy. Hamilton, positioned at the head of Lake Ontario between Toronto and Niagara Falls, anchored one of the region's key industrial and rail junctions, rounding out the map's coverage of Canada West's most economically significant corridor along the lake's western shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor an Ontario family with roots in the old Canada West era before Confederation, or for a Toronto or Niagara Falls transplant interested in the region as it stood on the eve of the Civil War just across the border, this map is a natural pick. We also carry an earlier 1853 Cowperthwait \u0026amp; Co. printing of this same Mitchell design; this 1864 Desilver edition represents the atlas's final and most updated run, giving collectors two distinct publisher states of the identical Canada West map to choose between. It's available unframed, in the full range of sizes from a compact print through to a large-format piece for a study or office wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836707659,"sku":"SKU2048-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836740427,"sku":"SKU2048-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836773195,"sku":"SKU2048-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836805963,"sku":"SKU2048-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836838731,"sku":"SKU2048-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836871499,"sku":"SKU2048-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836904267,"sku":"SKU2048-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836937035,"sku":"SKU2048-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582836969803,"sku":"SKU2048-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU2048.jpg?v=1790215600","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/ontario-map-1859-regional-print-toronto-niagara-falls-hamilton","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}