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map 43 x 53 cm. "This detailed map of the Great Lakes region of western "New France" by Jacques Nicolas Bellin was published by the Heirs of Homan in 1755, shortly before the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, the conflict that resulted in the transfer of New France to British hands. Bellin was just one representative of a greater movement by French royal and military cartographers in the 18th century to map New France using the knowledge possessed by Native Americans. This map shows details not only of the Canadian waterways, but also of military, trade, and territorial information pertaining to the indigenous populations who lived in the vast territory. As most of this land was uncharted wilderness at the time, the alliance of the French with the Iroquois and Algonquian peoples proved essential to the mapping of sparsely populated or unsettled inland territories. The maps were used by fur trappers, Jesuit missionaries, explorers, and by the military in the final "French and Indian Wars" against the British, a struggle to retain Canada as a French territory that ultimately proved unsuccessful." World Digital Library. par Mr. Bellin, ingénieur du roy de la marine pour servir à l'intelligence des affaires de l'etat present en Amerique, communiquée au public par les Héritiers de Homan. Covers the area from Lake Superior to Kaskaskia and from Delaware Bay to the Mississippi River. Relief shown pictorially. Shows a few towns, missions, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers and lakes, portages, and early place-names. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Canada Maps Early works to 1800 Great Lakes Region (North America) Maps Early works to 1800 New France Maps Early works to 1800 Canada New France North America Great Lakes Region G3310 1755 .B4 Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3310.ar001900 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3310.ar001901 19 73694802 hdl:loc.gmd/g3310.ar001900 hdl:loc.gmd/g3310.ar001901 DLC 740130 20250607182953.9 5412379 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)