Title: Quebec, Canada, 1776 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2009
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2009-04
- Coverage: 1776
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city and environs of Quebec : with its siege and blockade by the Americans from the 8th of December 1775 to the 13th of May 1776, engraved by Wm. Faden. It was published by Wm. Faden in 12, Septemr. 1776. Scale [ca. 1:7,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 19N NAD 1983 coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications and places of military interest related to the American Siege of Quebec, 1775-1776, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.
Subjects
- Transportation
- Canada
- Quebec
- Levis
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Land use
- Landforms
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Bodies of water
- History
- Siege, 1775-1776
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- intelligenceMilitary
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.277047, -71.164021, 46.843093, 46.78131)
- Geometry: BBOX (-71.277047, -71.164021, 46.843093, 46.78131)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Faden, William, 1750?-1836. Quebec, Canada, 1776 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3454-q4s3-1776-f3-copyb
Format
GeoTIFF