Plan de Missilimakinak avec la description de la route du Missisipi ; Idée de la situation du fort de Chambly, et des ses environs ; Idée du fort de Frontenac et de ses environs. [ca. 1717]

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Plan de Missilimakinak avec la description de la route du Missisipi ; Idée de la situation du fort de Chambly, et des ses environs ; Idée du fort de Frontenac et de ses environs. [ca. 1717]

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Details the Straits of Mackinac region, including the fort and Indian village at Saint Ignace and the fort established across the Straits at latter-day Mackinaw City; 16 lines of accompanying notes mention the presence of 600 couriers de bois in 1716. For English translation of the notes (by Katherine Stebbins), see Map Information File. On same sheet with maps of the Fort Chambly in Québec and Fort Frontenac (later the site of Kingston, Ontario).

3 ms. maps : hand col. ; 270 x 178 mm. or smaller, on sheet 560 x 374 mm.

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