Atlases (Canada)
Historical Atlas of Canada by A uniquely beautiful record of Canada's early development, this volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada explores the relationship between what is now Canada and its people, from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
History of Cartography
Check out the History of Cartography Project.
You can also read the print copy from the Reference Collection on the Main Floor of the Library: call number GA 201 H53 1987
Databases
- AtoZ Maps Online This link opens in a new windowDatabase of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 This link opens in a new windowThis database includes online maps and an interactive map
Online Sources for Mapping
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map CollectionThe PCL Map Collection includes more than 250,000 maps,
- Ordnance SurveyGreat Britain's national mapping agency
- OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap is a free map of the world
- Atlas of CanadaHundreds of online maps about Canada's environment, society, economy and history.
- Climatic Research Unit - University of East AngliaThe Climatic Research Unit is widely recognised as one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
- NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS)The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) is the official repository of standard spellings of all foreign geographic names, sanctioned by the United States Board on Geographic Names (US BGN). The database also contains variant spellings (cross-references), which are useful for finding purposes, as well as non-Roman script spellings of many of these names
- National Centers for Environmental InformationThe National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and its sister data centers merged into the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)