S12.
Railway & Guide Map of Manitoba (1887)
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Brownlee, J. H. Railway & Guide Map of Manitoba [facsimile].
1:760,320.
Winnipeg: Manitoba Department of Agriculture, 1887. As reproduced by,
Ottawa:
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, ACMLA Facsimile Map
Series
#63, 1980.
Published by the authority of the Provincial Government. Winnipeg,
March
1887, D.H. Harrison, Minister of Agriculture. Compiled by J.H.
Brownlee,
C.E., D.L.S., in the offices of the Department of Public Works.
Map shows Railways (constructed and projected), Railway Stations, Grain
Elevators
and Warehouses, Schools, Post Offices, Grist Mills, Hudson Bay Co's.
Posts,
Provincial Lands and Municipal Boundaries.
As settlement advanced in Manitoba local administrative units were
established,
and various kinds of units were tried before a satisfactory system was
found.
This map of 1887 shows the stage when municipalities were already in
existence,
but the boundaries of the much larger counties which had been the
administrative
units from 1880 until 1886 are still on the map. Considering the
density
of settlement and travel conditions in Manitoba in 1887, the
municipality
seemed to be a suitable size between a township and a county, for an
effective
administrative unit. J.H. Brownlee of Brandon compiled at least three
maps
of the Province, in 1887, 1888, and 1889 which were published by
authority
of the Provincial government. In 1891, 1893, 1897 and in 1900 maps very
similar
in format and at the same scale were produced by the provincial
government,
without the Brownlee name appearing on the map. Most of these later
maps
were coloured. Over a succession of years these maps effectively
illustrate
the general development of the Province, because they show railroad
lines,
schools, post offices, and sometimes grist mills. These are very useful
maps
for their time, and there are some indications that they had a wide
circulation
within the Province. (Warkentin and Ruggles. Historical Atlas of
Manitoba.
map 71, p. 180). |
