{"product_id":"quebec-and-maritimes-map-1855-regional-print-montreal-quebec-city-saint-john-halifax","title":"Quebec \u0026 Maritimes Map 1855 Regional Print - Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, Halifax","description":"\u003cp\u003eSamuel Augustus Mitchell published this map of Canada East, still widely known by its older name of Lower Canada, together with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in the early 1855 issue of A New Universal Atlas, produced in Philadelphia by Cowperthwait, Desilver \u0026amp; Butler with a title page chromolithographed by P.S. Duval \u0026amp; Co. Mitchell revised this atlas at least twice a year through the 1850s, and the surviving copy of this particular sheet once belonged to Judah Chase, a Blue Hill, Maine sea captain, a reminder that these commercial American atlases travelled as often into merchant and mariner households as into libraries. Its full colour printing marks railroads, capitals and principal towns with a clarity aimed squarely at a general American readership rather than a specialist one, and the hachured relief follows the same house style Mitchell applied across his state and territory maps. It covers three separate British North American colonies on one sheet at a moment when American publishers routinely grouped Canadian territory together for convenience rather than by any shared political boundary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMontreal dominates the Canada East portion of the sheet, already the largest city and busiest port in British North America by the 1850s. Saint John anchors New Brunswick's coast at the mouth of its namesake river, the colony's commercial hub for a timber trade that shipped lumber across the Atlantic. Halifax, further east in Nova Scotia, appears as the region's principal Royal Navy station and its best-defended harbour. Railroads, still a relatively new feature on maps of this region in 1855, are picked out running toward each of these three towns, evidence of how quickly rail construction was reshaping travel between colonies that had previously depended almost entirely on coastal shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sheet suits a family whose history touches more than one of these three colonies, or a collector interested specifically in Mitchell's rapid mid-1850s revision cycle and the sea-captain provenance this particular copy carries. The store also carries Canada East mapped alongside New Brunswick again in 1856 by Colton with a dedicated Montreal inset, and Quebec on its own in several later editions; this 1855 Mitchell sheet is the earliest of the group to group all three colonies on a single page, and the only one tied to a documented original owner. 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":58582883270987,"sku":"SKU2072-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883303755,"sku":"SKU2072-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883336523,"sku":"SKU2072-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883369291,"sku":"SKU2072-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883402059,"sku":"SKU2072-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883434827,"sku":"SKU2072-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883467595,"sku":"SKU2072-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883500363,"sku":"SKU2072-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58582883533131,"sku":"SKU2072-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU2072.jpg?v=1790219972","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/quebec-and-maritimes-map-1855-regional-print-montreal-quebec-city-saint-john-halifax","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}