Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22055

    Map of the Island of Montreal

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 350mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the Hochelaga Archipelago at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, showing the Island of Montreal, Jesus Island and some of the smaller islets that make up the archipelago. Fort Ville-Marie, the original settlement on the Island of Montreal, can be seen in the centre of the map, on the right side of the island. A plan of the fortress is also included, at the lower right of the image.

    Plate 11 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).

    Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.11.’ With a cartouche upper right: ‘L’ISLE DE / MONTREAL / et ses Environs. / Echelle de 2 lieues Communes’. A plan of Fort Ville-Marie is included at the lower left: ‘PLAN / DE LA VILLE DE / MONTREAL ou VILLE MARIE / Echelle de Quatre Cent Toises.’

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > North America
          > United States
    <The World>
       > North America
          > Canada
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