The 1864 River John Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
The 1864 Pictou Map shown here is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
This 1864 Albion Mines Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
This 1864 Merigomish map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
This 1864 New Glasgow Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
The 1864 Hopewell Map is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
The 1864 Durham map shown here is a detailed sketch from the much larger 1864 Pictou County Topographical Township Map created by Ambrose F. Church. The map captures the county at a moment when settlement patterns, industry, and transportation routes were rapidly taking shape. It includes administrative boundaries, communities, roads, railroads, and many other topographical features of the late 1800s. Browse this map detail online and …
Ambrose F. Church was commissioned by the Province to create a series of detailed color maps, one for each of Nova Scotia’s counties. In 1864. after completing his detailed map of Halifax, he completed the topographical township map of Pictou County. The map also includes several detailed inset maps (featuring Durham, Hopewell, Albion Mines now Stellarton, Pictou, and New Glasgow) as well as several small directories of prominent community members (clergy, blacksmiths, farmers, merchants, etc. ). Browse this historic map online …