1942 vintage topographical map of Chalk River area

Artifact Number:

2021-058

Description

A laminated, “preliminary”, scale 1” to 2 miles, topographical map of “Chalk River, Renfrew County, Nipissing District, Pontiac and Temisamingue Counties”.  The map covers latitude from 46 degrees to 46 degrees 30 minutes and longitude from 76 degrees to 77 degrees.  It contains a note to say that it was “Surveyed and complied by the Topographical Survey from air photographs taken by the RCAF and issued in 1942”. The map is approximately 100 cm by 80 cm in size.  A note on the reverse states that it “Belonged to W.B. Lewis (of CRNL) and was given to Mary Moore by Lewis’s sister Gwynned Gerry in November of 1993.

Details

Keywords:
photograph; map; crnl
Date:
1942
Notes:
The survey from 1942 is particularly interesting in that it was done before Deep River, the Chalk River Laboratories and the Ontario Hydro dam at Rolphton were built.
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