[Maps of] B.C. Railway Belt, corrected to Nov. 1st 1907
- 19406Y
- Item
- 1 Nov. 1907
Part of Archives cartographic collection
Item consists of one bound album measuring 41 x 55 cm. It contains maps of the Railway Belt of BC in 1907 prepared by James White, F.R.G.S., Geographer, under the direction of R.E. Young, D.L.S., Superintendent of Railway and Swamp Lands for the Dominion Department of the Interior. Each map depicts trails; trails surveyed; post offices; railway stations; range numbers; township numbers; homesteads patented and homesteads entered for and unpatented; sales, special grants, mining land sales; lands disposed of by provincial government; forest reserves and parks; timber berths; and (First Nation) reserves. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".
The special edition maps "showing lands disposed of" include: Port Moody and Yale sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Kamloops and Lytton sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Sicamous sheet (west of sixth meridian), and Donald sheet (west of fifth meridian).
Canada. Department of the Interior