Carte du havre de Chibucto avec le plan de la ville de Halifax sur la coste de l'Accadia ou Nova Scotia latitude 44° 31ʹ

Rocque, John, -1762

Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771

1750

Publiée par hautorité par Jean Rocque, Charing Cross

Scale [ca. 1:27:400]

English

Boston Athenaeum

Cartographic Collection

• Halifax (N.S.)--Pictorial works
• Halifax (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Acadia--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Bedford Bay (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Halifax Harbour (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800

• Bedford Bay
• Canada
• Halifax
• Halifax Harbour
• North and Central America
• Nova Scotia

1 map : col. 56 x 44 cm., sheet 69 x 52 cm.

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• Depths shown by soundings, contours and shading.
• Hand-colored.
• "Publish'd by authority of John Rocque at Charing Cross, 1750"--Lower margin of map.
• Dedication in cartouche: "To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner of trade & plantations &c. &c. This chart of Chibucto Harbour, on the coast of Accadia, or Nova Scotia, with the plan of the town of Halifax; is most humbly inscrib'd by his Lordship's most obedient servant, John Rocque." View of buildings and a mill, presumably the new town of Halifax.
• Inset at lower left: Plan of the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia.
• Engraved map.
• In French and English.