Settlement of the West, 1886

Poster map celebrating the bounty of the Canadian prairies designed to promote immigration to lands owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Many similar maps, atlases and posters combining illustrations, statistics and text were produced during this period.

Catalogue entry:
The Canadian Pacific Railway traversing the great wheat region of the Canadian northwest ... — Scale [ca. 1:6 000 000]. — New York : American Bank Note Co., [ca. 1883]. — 1 map : col. ; 93 x 83 cm, on sheet 105 x 91 cm. —

Ref. No.: NMC 011868