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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection Part With digital objects
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Visitors map of Vancouver

Part is the front sheet of an unfolded tourism brochure showing Vancouver tourist attractions, The sheet includes a map of downtown Vancouver, with transportation information, a map of the roads in Stanley Park, photographs and information on various sites and attractions in the city, as well as general promotional information.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Part contains a map of the Greater Vancouver area showing topographic contour lines at 500-foot intervals, roads and road characteristics, railways, parks, towns, reserves, elevations, airports, streams, lakes, and adminstrative boundaries. Includes a key plan of adjoining sheets published in the same series and a small ancillary map showing the declination of the compass needle in 1958.

Tourist map of Greater Vancouver

Part is a sheet with two maps. The main map shows a pictorial view of Greater Vancouver, including the location of major roads and tourist attractions. Drawings of "the most important single objects on totem poles of the Pacific Northwest Indians" form a decorative border. The inset map shows downtown Granville Street and the location of the Scenery Shop.

Top right plate

Part depicts a chart of the astronomical latitude & longitude analemma, a table showing values of the place of the sun in the ecliptic & declinatiobn, a chart of the constellations viewable in the southern hemisphere, text on geographical definitions and the cause of the tides, and a map of the northern portion of Africa, Europe and Asia.

Dunn, Samuel

Top left plate

Part depicts the upper left hand quadrant of the map, and includes a diagram of the solar system, a table of dimensions of bodies in the solar system, a chart of constellations viewable in the northern hemisphere, text on geographical definiations and the cause of the tides, and a map of the northern half of the Americas.

Dunn, Samuel

Top left plate

Part is the top left hand quadrant of a map of the Americas, and depicts North America and the north-west portion of South America. The sheet also includes a list of territories and islands in North America and appears to relate to territorial divisions as a result of the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles (1783).

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