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Title: This Map of North America According to ye Newest and most Exact Observations
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Early 18th-century map of North America. Hand coloured and inset with: "A view of a stage & also of ye manner of fishing for, curing & drying cod at New Found Land. St. John's harbour.--Boston harbour.--New York &c.--[Charleston region, S.C.]--Port Royal harbour.--The bay and city of ye Havana.--The bay of Pto. Bella.--La Vera Cruz.--Cartagena harbour and forts.--The port of Acapulco.
Date Created: 1710
Call Number: Map 600a 1710

Title: An Accurate Map of North America Drawn from the Sieur Robert, with Improvements.
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: A mid-eighteenth century map of North America. The map is an English version of Giles Robert de Vaugondy's map of North America, engraved by George Rollos. Robert de Vaugondy's original map is entitled "Amérique Septentrionale: Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs, et Divisée Suivant les Differentes Possessions des Européens". This revised version features a cartouche illustrated with scenes of Native American people and indigenous flora and fauna.
Date Created: 1759
Call Number: Map 600a 1759

Title: A New Map of North America, with the West India Islands: Divided according to the Preliminary Articles of Peace, Signed at Versailles, 20. Jan. 1783.
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Top half of a detailed late 18th-century map of North America and the West Indies. Shows hand-coloured divisions based on "the Preliminaries Signed at Versailles" January, 20th, 1783". Red is used to denote English territories, green is the United States, Blue is French, and Yellow is Spanish territory. Printed on four sheets, two out of the four are shown. Illustrated cartouche showing Native American people. Inset with "A Particular Map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay".
Date Created: 1794-05-12
Call Number: Map 600 fab 1794

Title: Map of Canada and the United States Showing Air Mail Routes
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: 1929 map of air mail routes in Canada and the United States. Scale: approx. 1:8,870,400.
Date Created: 1929
Call Number: Map 600 gar 1929

Title: A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America.
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: 18th century map of British and French settlements in North America. Coloured map published in the Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure 1755 vol 17 pp. 144-145. Inset: French settlement Fort Frederick at Crown Point, built 1731. Scale approx. 1:10,000,000. Title cartouche illustrated with images of ships.
Date Created: 1755
Call Number: Map 601a 175-

Title: North America From the French of Mr. D'Anville Improved with the Black Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio: Illustrated with Geographical and Historical Remarks
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Mid-18th century map of North America. Based on a French map by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Hand-coloured, Canada and French territories in yellow, Spanish settlements in green, and English Colonies in other colours. Scale: 1:6,500,000. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Top right corner of the map is missing, cutting out part of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Gulf of St. Laurence. Includes extensive historical treatises outlining the"English Title to their Settlements on the Continent" as well as the "French Incroachments".
Date Created: 1755-05
Call Number: Map 601a 1755

Title: Pownall's Map of the British Provinces in North America AD 1775
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: 18th century map of British territories in North America. Hand coloured boundaries.
Date Created: 1775
Call Number: Map 601a 1775

Title: Plan du Port de St. Diego en Californie: Situé par 52º 39'0'' de Latitude Nord et 12º 4'0" à l'Ouest de St. Blas Levé en 1782.
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: Late eighteenth-century map of the Port of San Diego, California from a map by cartographer and explorer Jean-François de Galaupe, Count of La Pérouse (or Lapérouse). This map is based on surveys of the area by Juan Pantoja. Drawn during a French scientific expedition to the Pacific in 1785-1788. Last contact with the expedition was in 1788, after which they were never heard from again. This map was engraved by L. Aubert and published in "Atlas de Voyage de La Pérouse" in 1897. Scale at bottom reads: Milles Marins de 60 au degré.
Date Created: 1788? (published 1797)
Call Number: Map 603cer 1788 sheet 3

Title: British North America By Permission Dedicated to The Honorable Hudsons Bay Company: Containing the latest information which their documents furnish. By their Obedient Servants
Institution: University Library, University of Saskatchewan
Description: A nineteenth-century map of British North America, shown in yellow. Rupert's Land is shown in green. Border with the United States is delineated with red. Published in London by J. Arrowsmith in1854. Relief shown by hachures. Prime Meridian; Greenwich.
Date Created: 1854-04-25
Call Number: OS-X2 Map 610 a 1854