Number 157, Newsletter - Association of Canadian Map Libraries

              ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN MAP LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES
BULLETIN
ASSOCIATION DES CARTOTHÈQUES ET ARCHIVES CARTOGRAPHIQUES
DU CANADA
NUMBER 157 / FALL 2017 NUMÉRO 157 / AUTOMME 2017
ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN MAP LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES /
ASSOCIATION DES CARTOTHÈQUES ET ARCHIVES CARTOGRAPHIQUES DU CANADA
Views expressed in the Bulletin are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the
view of the Association.
The Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives gratefully acknowledges the financial
support given by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Les opinions exprimées dans le Bullein sont celles des collaborateurs et ne correspondent pas
nécessairement à celles de l’Association.
L’Association des cartothèques et archives cartographiques du Canada remercie le Conseil de
recherches en sciences humaines du Canada pour son apport financier.
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MEMBERSHIP in the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and
Archives is open to both individuals and institutions having an interest
in maps and the aims and objectives of the Association. Membership
dues are for the calendar year and are as follows:
Full (Canadian map field)... $65.00
Associate (anyone interested)... $65.00
Institutional... $65.00
Student... $20.00
Members receive the ACMLA Bulletin, the official journal of the
Association, which is published three times a year.
Officers of the Association for 2017/2018 are:
Peuvent devenir MEMBRES de l’Association des cartothèques et
archives cartographiques du Canada tout individu et toute institutions
qui s’intéressent aux cartes ainsi qu’aux objectifs de l’Association.
La cotisation annuelle est la suivante:
Membres actifs(cartothécaires canadiens à plein temps)... 65,00$
Membres associés (tout les intéressées)... 65,00$
Institutions... 65,00$
Étudiant... 20,00$
Le Bulletin de l’ACACC sera envoye aux membres trois fois par
annee.
Les MEMBRES DU BUREAU de l’Association pour
	 l’anne 2017/2018 sont:
Vice President/ President Elect/ Vice-président / Président élu
daniel Brendle-Moczuk
Maps and GIS librarian
McPherson Library
University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C.
danielbm@uvic.ca
Past President / Président sortant
Deena Yanofsky
Liaison Librarian
Humanities & Social Sciences Library
McGill University, Montréal, Québec
past-president@acmla-acacc.ca
Treasurer / Trésorier
Rebecca Bartlett
GIS and Digital Resources Librarian
MADGIC, Carleton University Library
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
treasurer@acmla-acacc.ca
Secretary / Secrétaire
Julie Jones
GIS & Map Librarian | Librarian for Geography
Research Commons, W.A.C. Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
secretary@acmla-acacc.ca
President / Président
Marcel Fortin
Head, Map and Data Library
Map and Data Library
130 St George St, 5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
president@acmla-acacc.ca
Vice President Communications and Outreach / vice-président aux
Communications et Rayonnement
Tracy Sallaway
tracysallaway@gmail.com
Vice President Professional Development / vice-président au
Développement professionel
Jason Brodeur
Manager, Maps/Data/GIS
Mills Memorial Library
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
brodeujj@mcmaster.ca
BULLETIN DE L’ACACC
NUMÉRO 157 AUTOMME 2017
ACMLA BULLETIN
NUMBER 157 FALL 2017
ON THE COVER...
Plan of the City and Liberties of Kingston. Thomas Fraser Gibbs, 1850
Reproduced from an original from an engraving in the Special Collections, Douglas
Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
ACML Facsimile Map Series. Map No. 137 (ISSN 0827-8024).
Table of Contents
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE - Marcel Fortin 2
MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR - Eva Dodsworth 6
ACMLA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING MINUTES 7
CARTO 2018: CALL FOR PROPOSALS 	 11
ATTRIBUTION ET DATATION D’UNE CARTE 12
MANUSCRITE ANONYME DE LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE
	 	 	 - Alban Berson
GEOSPATIAL DATA and SOFTWARE REVIEWS 21
	 	 	 - Tomasz Mrozewski
REVIEWS 	 	 	 	 23
The Human Atlas of Europe: A Continent United in
Diversity 	 	 - Rhys Stevens
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A
Workbook 	 	 - Tomasz Mrozewski
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and
our Minds 	 	 - Brian Jackson
REGIONAL NEWS - Marilyn Andrews 	 28
NEW CARTOGRAPHIC RESOURCES - Cheryl Woods 34
	
	
	
Bulletin Staff / Collaborateurs
Editor:
Eva Dodsworth
Geospatial Data Services Librarian
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
edodsworth@uwaterloo.ca
New Cartographic Resources Editor:
Cheryl Woods
Map & Data Centre
Western University
London, Ontario
cawoods@uwo.ca
Reviews Editor:
Sarah Simpkin
GIS and Geography Librarian
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
sarah.simpkin@uottawa.ca
Regional News Editor:
Marilyn Andrews
Data Librarian and Geography Liaison
Librarian
University of Regina Library
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
marilyn.andrews@uregina.ca
Geospatial Data and Software
Reviews Editor:
Tomasz Mrozewski
Data, GIS and Government Documents
Librarian / Bibliothécaire pour les
données, les services géospatials et les
documents gouvernementaux
Laurentian University Library and
Archives / Bibliothèque et archives,
Université Laurentienne
Sudbury, Ontario
tmrozewski@laurentian.ca
GIS Trends Editor:
Barbara Znamirowski
Maps, Data and Government Information
Centre (MaDGIC)
Thomas J. Bata Library
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
bznamirowski@trentu.ca
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
There are three things that are on my mind these days as president of the ACMLA. These are the
annual conference in Montreal in the spring, the possible name change of the association and the
state of bilingualism and French-language participation in the association. All three, I realize, are
somewhat related to each other in some ways and rather complicate things and do lead me to
sometimes doubt myself and hesitate as we try and move forward.
I recently attended two very interesting conferences that allowed me to reflect a bit on both the
ACMLA and our jobs as map and GIS professionals. Presenters at WAML, held at at the University of
Texas at Austin at the beginning of November, focused heavily on topics related to map collections.
And then while at another conference, Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping,
at the Maritime Museum in Halifax in mid-November, all papers focused heavily on the history of
Canadian cartography, and the many areas of that history that remain to be explored.
In recent years, CARTO conferences, as a reflection of our shifting focus in map libraries in Canada,
have concentrated more on the digital, while the paper has taken a back seat. It is somewhat
unfortunate considering the richness of collections of maps held in many of our institutions and
the collective knowledge our community holds in the area.
On the one side, our jobs have focused heavily on technology and digital collections because that
is where the biggest demand has come from. But while we were shifting our focus, we failed to
remember (or did not have time or capacity to remember in many cases) that there are still many
scholars not interested in Historical GIS or GIS at all, but who are interested in the maps and the
stories behind the maps. In leaving our map collections behind we risk losing a rich culture of
cartographic knowledge and expertise. We also run the risk of alienating ourselves from academics
who could benefit from knowing that our collections do still exist.
As is clear by next spring’s joint IASSIST/ACMLA conference in Montreal theme, “Once upon a
data point: sustaining our data storytellers”, our attentions remain focused on the digital. Perhaps
because of this focus, it might make sense to start discussions on map collections on the ACMLA
or CARTA listservs, or even at a CARTO conference session.
This then leads me to the question of the name of the association. It is no secret I have wished to
change the name in the past because of the nature of the changes to our profession, as indicated
above, that are not reflected in the name. However, in light of what I just expressed about our
paper map collections, I also understand that it is a complicated issue and changing the name of
the association does not necessarily change much in terms of the bigger issues we are dealing with
in the association.
The executive committee has discussed how to tackle the issue of a possible name change and
we would therefore like to bring together a bilingual working group to examine the issue. The
working group terms of reference are being drafted and they will be sent out to the listserv in
the next few weeks. Reporting to the ACMLA executive committee, task force members will be
charged with examining if a name change is desired by the membership and how best to proceed
with a name change in the event that the membership does wish to move forward with a change.
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In terms of my point concerning bilingualism within the association, discussions surrounding this
issue began in the spring in Vancouver as a result of the translation costs of various association
documents, web pages, etc. The conversation brought forward the bigger more important issue of
francophone member participation and a probable perceived lack of inclusion in the association.
Francophone members, the committee feels, may not be comfortable with the dominance of English
in ACMLA business and CARTO conferences. As a result, the executive would like to investigate
how we can make the association more welcoming to Francophones.
I have begun conversations with a few francophone members, having spoken to a few people either
at conferences or in one on one conversations. We would like to continue these discussions to see
how we can make the association more inclusive beyond the translation of documents. Please
feel free to contact the executive or me directly if you would like to discuss this matter either via
email or by telephone, or if you have any suggestions for moving forward. One member suggested
conducting a survey to get to the heart of the matter.
Marcel Fortin
ACMLA President
marcel.fortin@utoronto.ca
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MESSAGE DU PRÉSIDENT
J’ai trois idées en tête pour mon message du président. Il y a CARTO 2018 qui aura lieu à Montréal
au printemps, la possibilité d’un changement de nom pour l’association et finalement la participation
et l’inclusion des francophones dans l’association. Les trois idées sont liées et ce lien a pour effet
de compliquer la situation et aussi, à mon avis, de freiner un peu la trajectoire de l’acacc.
J’ai récemment participé à deux congrès qui m’ont fait beaucoup réfléchir au sujet du rôle de
l’association et de nos emplois comme professionnels de la cartographie, de la géomatique, et de
la bibliothéconomie. Début novembre, plusieurs conférenciers au congrès de WAML à Austin au
Texas ont fait des présentations au sujet des collections de cartes et plans en format papier dans les
cartothèques aux États Unis. Ensuite les 13 et 14 novembre dernier à Halifax au colloque <<Canada
Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping>> l’histoire de la cartographie canadienne
était au centre de toutes les présentations et discussions.
Depuis déjà plusieurs années, nos présentations de conférences à CARTO sont devenues très centrées
sur la géomatique et les SIG. Ceci a eu pour effet de laisser de côté les discussions concernant nos
collections de cartes et plans en format papier. Ceci est un peu malheureux considérant la richesse
des collections de cartes qu’on retrouve à travers le pays et les connaissances professionnelles des
responsables de ses collections.
D’un côté, nos emplois sont devenus de plus en plus centrés sur la technologie et sur nos collections
numériques, parce que la demande y est très forte. En laissant la situation aller, on oublie qu’il y
a un nombre important de chercheurs qui ne sont pas intéressés aux SIG ou aux SIG historiques,
mais qui étudient plutôt l’histoire de la cartographie, ou les histoires qu’on peut raconter avec nos
cartes en papier. En laissant nos collections de cartes et plans en papier de côté, nous risquons
perdre une culture et des connaissances cartographiques importantes. Nous courons aussi le
risque de nous aliéner d’un groupe de chercheurs toujours importants.
Le thème du prochain congrès CARTO avec IASSIST à Montréal en 2018 est très centré sur les
données numériques. Il est alors peut-être plus important que jamais de commencer à discuter du
rôle que peuvent encore jouer les cartothèques traditionnelles et leurs responsables. Il faudrait
peut-être commencer par discuter sur la liste électronique carta ou acmla-acacc-l, ou encore dans
une session à CARTO.
Ceci m’amène donc à mon prochain point : la question du nom de l’association. Je ne me suis jamais
caché du fait que depuis longtemps, je veux changer le nom de l’association, parce qu’à mon avis,
il ne reflète pas les changements de notre profession dont je viens tout juste de parler. Malgré ce
fait, je comprends aussi que la situation est quand même complexe et que changer le nom n’assure
pas une solution pour les plus gros problèmes de l’association.
Le Comité exécutif voudrait donc former un groupe de travail bilingue pour examiner la possibilité
d’un changement de nom de l’acacc. Le mandat sera proposé sous peu sur la liste électronique
acmla-acacc-l. Le groupe aura comme tâche de sonder les membres de l’association pour voir s’ils
désirent un nouveau nom pour l’association. Si la réponse est favorable, il faudra évaluer comment
entreprendre ce changement.
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Finalement, au sujet du bilinguisme de l’association, plusieurs discussions ont eu lieu à CARTO en
2017 concernant la traduction de documents et de pages du site web, etc. Celles-ci ont engendré
une discussion plus importante à propos de la participation et du sentiment d’appartenance des
membres francophones à l’acacc. Le comité a l’impression que les membres francophones n’ont
pas de sentiment d’appartenance envers cette association qui est majoritairement anglophone et
qu’ils ne se sentent peut-être pas à l’aise à participer dans des comités ou même au congrès annuel.
Ceci en tête, le Comité exécutif aimerait trouver une façon de corriger la situation et redonner ce
sens de l’appartenance à tous ses membres.
J’ai déjà eu quelques discussions avec certains membres francophones, mais j’aimerais vraiment
entreprendre une plus grande discussion à ce sujet. Le Comité exécutif voudrait sincèrement créer
une association qui est accueillante et inclusive pour tous ses membres et que son caractère, au
niveau francophone, n’égale pas simplement la traduction de documents. Nous planifions continuer
nos discussions avec les membres francophones, alors n’hésitez pas à communiquer avec nous si
vous avez des suggestions pour faire avancer ce dossier. Un membre de l’association nous a d’ailleurs
déjà suggéré l’idée d’entreprendre un sondage. Le Comité exécutif appuierait certainement une
telle initiative.
Marcel Fortin
Président, ACACC
marcel.fortin@utoronto.ca
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MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
I invite you to enjoy the final print issue of the ACMLA Bulletin. Effective winter 2018, the Bulletin
will be published and made available online using Open Journal Systems (OJS) courtesy of the
University of Waterloo Library. Open Journal Systems is a collaborative, open source software
maintained by the Public Knowledge Project. The Bulletin will be free for all to read, including
non-ACMLA members.
Contributors are able to submit their articles to the journal directly through the journal’s website
(initial self-registration required). The Author will be asked to upload a submission file and to
provide metadata or indexing information. (The metadata improves the search capacity for research
online and for the journal.) The Author is able to track the submission through the review and
editorial process. Traditional methods of content submissions, via email to the editor, will happily
be accepted as well.
The OJS collects and disseminates information about authors and their work across research and
citation databases such as Google Scholar, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and others.
Once the journal is live, I will be sharing the URL to members and all interested. Please expect a
call for content in January, 2018.
Eva Ddodsworth
Editor, ACMLA Bulletin
edodsworth@uwaterloo.ca
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Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives /
Association des Cartothèques et Archives Cartographiques du Canada
MINUTES
of the
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
In Vancouver, BC
Simon Fraser University
1400-1420 Segal Centre, 515 West Hastings Street
Thursday, June 22, 2017
PRESENT: Rebecca Bartlett, Gord Beck, Francine Berish, Jay Brodeur, Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, Chris Burns,
Cynthia Dietz, Marcel Fortin, Siobhan Hanratty, Anne Hakier, Julie Jones, Tommy Lavallée, Teresa Lewitzky,
Susan McKee, Rosa Orlandini, Kelley Schultz, Rudolf Traichel, Quinn Shirk-Luckett, Wenonah van Heyst,
Roger Wheate, Deena Yanofsky, Barb Znamirowski
1.0 Establishment of Quorum; Call to Order
Quorum was established. The meeting was called to order at 12:22 p.m.
2.0 Opening Remarks from the President ACMLA-ACACC
D. Yanofskyi went through the agenda and then introduced the current executive: S. Hanratty (Past President),
J. Brodeur (VP, Professional Development), Tracy Sallaway (absent - VP, Communications & Outreach), R.
Bartlett (Treasurer), and J. Jones (Secretary).
3.0 Approval of Agenda
The agenda was accepted as is.
4.0 Approval of the Minutes from the 2016 Annual General Meeting
R. Orlandini moved to accept the minutes as is – seconded by Siobhan Hanratty. Passed.
5.0 Business Arising from the 2015 Annual General Meeting
None reported.
6.0 President’s Report
Thank you to the Executive
D. Yanofsky thanked the Executive members for their hard work over the past year.
Lifetime Honorary Members
R. Pinnell was nominated for the Lifetime Achievement Award. Richard made many important and
lasting contributions to ACMLA.
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Accomplishments and Future Directions, 2016-2017
D. Yanofsky provided an overview of the accomplishments of the Executive over the last year, as well as the
priorities that are shaping things and guiding strategy. Highlights:
• Reviewing the publishing model of the Bulletin has been a focus this year. There is interest in moving to
an OA model.
• Partnerships and collaboration with groups such as IASSIST, NRC, and the Royal Canadian Geographical
Society.
• Continued advocacy with regard to access to data and maps.
Mentorship Program
Reviewing and revising the mentorship program has been a focus this year and this is part of larger goals
and strategy connected to membership and outreach. R. Orlandini and F. Berish provided more detailed
information on this work:
• The work has been completed by R. Orlandini, F. Berish, and a University of Toronto iSchool student.
• The mentorship program has been expanded to include students.
• Selected minor changes: the group is looking at letting people mentor more than one person, anyone and
everyone can request a mentor.
• The plan is to provide a report at the AGM each year.
• The hope is that these small changes will have a big impact and be invigorating for the Association.
• There will be some formalization of the changes and an appointment of a Mentoring Coordinator.
• This is a work in progress and the group is open to suggestions.
7.0 Vice President, Professional Development’s Report
J. Brodeur provided an overview of his accomplishments over the last year, as well as the priorities that are
shaping things and guiding strategy in this portfolio. Highlights:
• The survey of the Membership that was completed this year was important and assisted with getting a
better sense of the Membership and their needs and hopes.
• A conference organizing toolkit/manual is in the works. This will streamline conference organizing,
establish better timelines, and cut down on redundant labour.
• One of last year’s action items was to try to finalize the conference location by July. This did not happen,
but he acknowledged J. Jones in stepping up to host later in 2016.
• ACMLA and IASSIST will co-host annual conference in 2018 in Montreal. The Association may try to do
a joint conference every other year. There are many opportunities in this collaboration with IASSIST and
this is important to recognize.
• Selected action items for next year: plan additional professional development events, put out a call for
conference hosts for 2019, and publish survey results.
8.0 Vice President/President-Elect’s Report
T. Sallaway was not present so her report was delivered by D. Yanofsky. The report provided an overview of
her accomplishments over the last year, as well as the priorities that are shaping things and guiding strategy
in this portfolio. Highlights:
• The transition of the Bulletin to Open Journal Systems has been a priority and is in progress.
• She has been working on extensive website updates with the ACMLA Webmaster (K. Newson and the
code is currently on GitHub.
• There has been work to formalize things in a Communications Plan. This plan would include strategic
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actions and performance measures.
• The call for a volunteer Translation Officer for the Association call did not get any replies
9. Treasurer’s Report
R. Bartlett provided an overview of the Association’s finances over the last year, as well as the priorities and
issues that are shaping things and guiding strategy in this portfolio. Highlights:
• The 2016 Financial Report, 2017 Interim Financial Report – January 01, 2017 to May 29, 2017, and 2017
Budget documents were reviewed. The Association continues to be spending money more quickly than it
is amassing it. Costs that add to this issue include translation services, the use of Membee, honoraria, and
Conference Travel Funding.
• Other funding opportunities were explored, but were ultimately fruitless.
• The Association is now calling Travel Funding Conference Funding, which more accurately describes the
funding.
Question
J. Brodeur asked if it might be possible to use Membee in ways that would help the Association bring in
more money: for webinars, for example. There was enthusiasm for this idea and Jay will explore it further.
Motion to approve
F. Berish motioned to approve the budget and this was seconded by M. Fortin. Passed.
10. Past President’s Report
S. Hanratty provided an overview of her accomplishments over the last year, as well as the priorities that
are shaping things and guiding strategy in this portfolio. Highlights:
• Conference funding: in 2016 the Association expanded the program to move beyond just covering travel
funding, making other conference costs eligible as well. All requests were approved. The Association moved
to a Google Form for the application, replacing the PDF form that was used previously.
• Awards Committee update: The Paper Award was opened up to shorter papers and Trevor Ford is the
winner this year; Richard Pinnell is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award; there was no Student
Paper nomination this year; there was no Honours Award nomination.
• Nominating Committee update: Last year the Association did not have any people step forward to be VP,
President-Elect, but this year we have had interest in positions and we will have M. Fortin as President and
D. Brendle-Moczuk as Vice President/President-Elect. The candidates will be acclaimed.
11. New Business
Truth and Reconciliation
C. Dietz initiated a discussion around what actions the Association might want to take with regard to Truth
and Reconciliation. The fact that there is an opportunity to integrate Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action
into our conference planning process was raised by R. Orlandini and she proposed the formation of a Task
Force or Working Group to look at ways to move forward on this and other initiatives in this area. The
following individuals volunteered to serve on this task force: R. Orlandini, C. Dietz, C. Burns, and W. van Heyst.
Openings on the Executive in the coming year
R. Bartlett brought forth the important reminder that there will be four positions open next year:
• Vice President/President-Elect.
• Vice President, Professional Development
• Vice President, Communications & Outreach
• Treasurer
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News from Natural Resources Canada
B. Znamirowski shared that NRC is interested in partnering with researchers to give them free access to
SAR data. NRC is interested in providing data under a DLI model, which would see data going through the
library to the instructor. The instructor would need to just give feedback about the data to fulfil the goals
of the partnership. This is interesting and something to watch.
12. Nominations Committee Report on Election
D. Yanofsky announced the composition of the new Executive.
President – Marcel Fortin
Vice President/President Elect – Daniel Brendle-Moczuk
Past President – Deena Yanofsky
Vice President Professional Development – Jason Brodeur
Vice President Communications and Outreach – Tracy Sallaway
Secretary – Julie Jones
Treasurer – Rebecca Bartlett
13. Adjournment
Meeting was adjourned at 1:52 p.m. Moved by C. Burns.
ACMLA Welcomes New Members:
Melissa Castron
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
castronm@myumanitoba.ca
Status: Full Member
Maureen Leslie
Carleton University Library
Ottawa, Ontario
maureen.leslie@carleton.ca
Status: Full Member
Rene Duplain
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
rene.duplain@uottawa.ca
Status: Full Member
Evan Thornberry
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
evan.thornberry@ubc.ca
Status: Full Member
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IASSIST & CARTO 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Conference website: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/
Conference hashtag: #iassistcarto
The 44th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and
Technology (IASSIST) will be jointly held with the 52nd annual conference of the Association of Canadian
Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA-ACACC) in Montréal, Québec, Canada from May 28-June 1, 2018
Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers
In many ways, researchers are data storytellers: they create compelling data-supported narratives for
examining both historical and current social phenomena and for facilitating social change and reconciliation.
We professionals who support these data storytellers play vital roles in giving their data stories life.
We welcome submissions that tell diverse stories about our IASSIST and ACMLA-ACACC communities’
experiences, that offer conference attendees suggestions of how they can implement or adapt lessons for
their own work, and that have wide-reaching appeal to our international attendees. Although the positive
outcomes are always something people want to hear, there’s also an appetite for learning about the things
that didn’t go well, particularly any problems you faced and how others might avoid or handle them.
So bring us your data comedies, tragedies, epics, horror stories, mysteries, histories, thrillers, adventures,
fables, fantasies, science fiction, and even romances if you’ve got them! We look forward to sharing, learning
from, and adapting each other’s stories.
Submitting Proposals
We welcome submissions for papers, presentations, panels, posters, and Pecha Kuchas in English and French.
The Call for Presentations, along with the link to the submission form, is at:
http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/call-for-proposals/
Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Jay Brodeur, Laurence
Horton, and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh) at iassist2018@gmail.com.
We are also accepting submissions for Pre-conference Workshops. The Call for Workshops, along with the
link to the submission form, is at:
http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/workshops/
Questions about workshop submissions may be sent to Workshop Coordinators, Jenny Muilenburg (jmuil@
uw.edu) and Andy Rutkowski (arutkows@usc.edu).
Deadline for ALL submissions: 20 November 2017
Notification of acceptance: February 2018
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ATTRIBUTION ET DATATION D’UNE CARTE MANUSCRITE
ANONYME DE LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE
Alban Berson
Cartothécaire
Direction de la Collection nationale et des collections patrimoniales
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
« Son étude, il est vrai, est longue, ingrate et dure, il faut passer des temps considérables à se préparer
et à rassembler les connaissances nécessaires, et souvent avec le travail le plus assidu, à peine peut-on
se flatter de vaincre les difficultés qui se présentent. »
- Jacques Nicolas Bellin au sujet de l’hydrographie1
1Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Observations sur la carte de la Manche, dressée au Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux de la
marine, pour le service des vaisseaux du roi… en 1749, p. 1.
Figure 1 : Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du cours du fleuve St-Laurent depuis le lac Ontario jusqu’à Québek,
1730, feuillet 1
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Figure 2 : Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du cours du fleuve St-Laurent depuis le lac Ontario
jusqu’à Québek, 1730, feuillet 2
Figure 3 : Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du cours du fleuve St-Laurent depuis le lac Ontario
jusqu’à Québek, 1730, feuillet 3
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Cette carte manuscrite en trois feuillets représentant
le fleuve Saint-Laurent, du lac Ontario jusqu’à l’île
d’Anticosti, a été acquise par BAnQ en décembre
2016 à l’occasion d’une vente aux enchères tenue
à Toronto. La carte étant anonyme, non datée
et inconnue des chercheurs, elle a nécessité
une étude attentive tant sur le plan matériel
que sur celui de son contenu informationnel. Le
présent article expose dans leurs grandes lignes les
raisonnements qui ont conduit à l’attribuer à Jacques
Nicolas Bellin et explore le contexte de sa création.
Aspect matériel
Le support consiste en un papier chiffon relativement
épais typique des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Chaque
feuillet porte la marque d’une pliure transversale
bordée d’une trace de colle, vestige d’un onglet ayant
permis d’insérer la carte dans un cahier. L’examen du
document à la table lumineuse a décelé un filigrane
formant les lettres PVL sur un seul des trois feuillets.
Ce filigrane correspond au monogramme du papetier
hollandais Pieter van der Ley dont le moulin est actif
à Zaandijk de 1665 à 17652. Il est visible aux bordures
que le papier a été retaillé, ce qui peut expliquer
l’absence de filigrane sur les deux autres feuillets.
L’examen a également permis de révéler des trous
d’aiguille ou de poinçon sur les points correspondant
à de nombreux toponymes placés le long des berges
du fleuve, ainsi qu’à certains emplacements choisis
tels que le centre ou certains points cardinaux et
intermédiaires des roses des vents ou encore les
extrémités des segments représentant les lignes de
batture. Une minorité seulement de ces perforations
est due à l’usage du compas. La présence des autres
s’explique plus difficilement. En l’absence de trace de
carroyage sur le papier, ces perforations suggèrent
des points de repère facilitant la production de
plusieurs cartes manuscrites identiques. Cette
hypothèse demeure non validée. Les inscriptions
d’époque ont été réalisées à l’encre noire et le
relief a été rehaussé à l’aquarelle. Sur les marges
inférieures, on observe quelques inscriptions
récentes à l’encre bleue ainsi que la mention « 3 maps
together: $.90.00 » au crayon à mine qui témoigne
de la bonne affaire réalisée par un ancien acquéreur.
Suite à cet examen, la carte a été confiée aux soins du
service de restauration de BAnQ. Les trois feuillets
ont fait l’objet d’un nettoyage à sec à l’aide d’une
efface et d’une éponge visant à les débarrasser de
la poussière superficielle accumulée au cours des
siècles. Une trace rectiligne jaunâtre, résultat d’une
longue période d’exposition dans un cadre, est visible
à l’intérieur du liseré noir. Un test de solubilité a
révélé que l’encre du liseré était trop instable pour
qu’on puisse tenter de supprimer cette trace. Des
charnières présentes à l’arrière ont été éliminées
parce qu’elles risquaient d’apparaître sur le devant.
Des déchirures mineures ont été réparées à l’aide
de colle d’amidon de blé et de papier japonais.
Information cartographique
Dans l’ensemble, la carte ne parait pas adaptée à la
navigation ; le premier feuillet ne contient ni relevé
de sonde, ni ligne de batture et l’échelle utilisée sur
le troisième feuillet ne permet guère de localiser
précisément les écueils. Néanmoins, le deuxième
feuillet fait état de la présence de battures aux abords
de l’île aux Lièvres et de l’île aux Coudres et signale
quelques mesures bathymétriques, informations
précieuses pour les pilotes. Le fait que la carte soit
isolée de l’ensemble documentaire auquel elle a
jadis appartenu rend délicate l’évaluation de l’utilité
pratique de ce deuxième feuillet pour un navigateur.
Du point de vue du découpage des zones géographiques
en encarts comme de celui des toponymes, la
carte présente de prime abord une ressemblance
frappante avec l’oeuvre de Jean Deshayes (†1706).
Deshayes, professeur de mathématiques et homme
de science talentueux, séjourne à deux reprises en
Nouvelle-France. En 1685-1686, il procède à un
relevé hydrographique du Saint-Laurent qui servira
de base à une carte de référence sous le régime
français3. En 1702, il retourne dans la colonie en
tant qu’hydrographe du roi. Jusqu’à sa mort en
1706, il y enseigne les connaissances utiles à la
navigation et poursuit ses travaux de cartographie4.
2Churchill, W. A, Watermarks in paper in Holland, England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their
interconnection, p. LXXXI.
3Deshayes, Jean, De la Grande Rivière de Canada appellée par les Européens de St. Laurens, Paris, chez N. de Fer, 1715.
4Sur Jean Deshayes, voir Litalien, Raymonde, Jean-François Palomino et Denis Vaugeois, La mesure d’un continent :
atlas historique de l’Amérique du Nord, 1492-1814, p. 199.
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Mais si la carte évoque le travail de Deshayes, la
comparaison avec les cartes tracées de sa main
conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (et
disponibles sur Gallica) montre qu’il ne peut s’agir de
lui, la facture et la graphie présentant des différences
inconciliables. D’autres pistes ont été à leur tour
explorées puis écartées telles que celle du père
Laure (1688-1738), cartographe méconnu, ou encore
des navigateurs Gabriel Pellegrin (1713-1788)
et Richard Testu de la Richardière (1681-1741).
La valeur historique principale de la carte réside dans
la multitude de toponymes en usage à l’époque de la
Nouvelle-France qu’elle présente : noms de villages,
de seigneuries, de rivières ou encore de battures.
C’est l’étude comparative de cette nomenclature
qui a permis l’avancée la plus significative dans la
recherche de l’origine du document. Jean-François
Palomino a constitué au fil des ans pour BAnQ un
répertoire des toponymes figurant sur les cartes
de la Nouvelle-France. La saisie systématique dans
ce fichier des noms de lieux indiqués sur la carte
a permis de faire ressortir un ensemble de termes
qui n’apparaissent pas avant les travaux de Jacques
Nicolas Bellin. Ainsi, par exemple, tout près de l’île aux
Lièvres, deux îlots dont la première mention connue
sur une carte est au crédit de Bellin : l’îlot du Broc et
le Pot à l’eau de vie. De même pour le « trou Saint-
Patri » (le trou Saint-Patrice au sud-ouest de l’île
d’Orléans) et les battures du Cap Brûlé (situées entre
l’île d’Orléans et l’île aux Coudres). Concomitamment,
on ne relève sur la carte aucun toponyme
d’apparition postérieure à l’époque de Bellin.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), commis aux
écritures et aux dessins puis ingénieur hydrographe au
Dépôt de cartes et plans de la marine à partir de 17415,
est un des plus illustres et prolifiques cartographes
français. Son impressionnante production s’étale sur
un demi-siècle. Bellin n’est jamais venu en Amérique.
Le Dépôt, par l’intermédiaire du secrétaire d’État à
la marine, confiait aux vaisseaux du roi des cartes
manuscrites afin que les navigateurs y consignent de
l’information inédite et y effectuent des corrections.
Par ce procédé, Bellin perfectionnait sa connaissance
du fleuve et de ses rives6. Il n’est pas impossible que
cette carte ait été tracée à cette fin mais, si c’est le cas,
aucune mise à jour n’y a été effectuée. La similitude
de la représentation du fleuve Saint-Laurent avec La
Grande Rivière de Canada de Jean Deshayes s’explique
par le fait que les employés du Dépôt de cartes et
plans de la marine bénéficiaient non seulement
de la carte imprimée de Deshayes mais également
des cartes manuscrites dressées par ce dernier
d’après ses relevés et calculs effectués en 1686.
Des éléments caractéristiques du travail de Bellin
Pour mettre à l’épreuve cette attribution, nous avons
comparé la carte avec une autre carte manuscrite du
fleuve Saint-Laurent signée par Bellin et conservée
à la Bibliothèque nationale de France : Carte du
fleuve Saint-Laurent depuis Gaspé et Mingan jusqu’à
Québec... prise... sur les observations... que M. des
Herbiers de Létanduère, capitaine de vaisseau, a faites
dans les campagnes de 1730 et 1732 / Copié sur celle
donnée par M. de Létanduère en 1733 par Bellin7.
5Petto, Christine Marie, When France was king of cartography: the patronage and production of maps in early modern
France, p. 71.
6Palomino, Jean-François, Entre la recherche du vrai et l’amour de la patrie : cartographier la Nouvelle-France au XVIIIe
siècle, in Revue de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, n. 1, 2009, p. 93.
7Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du fleuve Saint-Laurent depuis Gaspé et Mingan jusqu'à Québec... prise... sur les observations...
que M. des Herbiers de Létanduère, capitaine de vaisseau, a faites dans les campagnes de 1730 et 1732, 1733.
Figure 4 : Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du fleuve Saint-Laurent depuis Gaspé et Mingan jusqu'à Québec... prise... sur les
observations... que M. des Herbiers de Létanduère, capitaine de vaisseau, a faites dans les campagnes de 1730 et 1732, 1733
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Le territoire représenté sur la carte de la BNF
correspond exactement aux deuxième et troisième
feuillets de la carte de BAnQ (de Québec à la partie
occidentale de l’île d’Anticosti). On constate sur les
deux cartes l’utilisation de l’aquarelle pour mettre
en relief le fleuve et les berges. Plus significatif,
sur la carte de la BNF, Bellin fait figurer au nord de
l’île aux Lièvres une batture dont il précise qu’elle
a été découverte en 1730 par son collaborateur
sur le terrain, le pilote et officier de marine Henri-
François des Herbiers, marquis de l’Estenduère
(1682-1750). Or, cette batture figure à l’identique
sur la carte de BAnQ. Ce commentaire de Bellin et
l’étude comparative des toponymes suggèrent que
la carte de BAnQ daterait du début des années 1730,
datation compatible avec la période d’activité du
moulin où le papier a été fabriqué. L’Éléphant, navire
de la marine royale de 64 canons, s’échoue (sans
perte humaine) sur la batture du Cap Brûlé le 1er
septembre 17298. On comprend l’empressement des
autorités françaises au début de la décennie 1730 à
améliorer l’hydrographie de la zone correspondant
au deuxième feuillet, soit la périlleuse portion
du fleuve s’étendant de Québec à l’île Verte.
Les deux cartes présentent ce qui peut être interprété
comme une différence d’achèvement. En effet, la
carte de la BNF comporte des ornements : cartouche
d’inspiration architecturale, armoiries du roi de
France et angelots. Il s’agit là d’enjolivements
habituellement réservés aux cartes manuscrites
abouties, prêtes à passer dans les mains de
personnages puissants. Ce n’est pas le cas de la
carte de BAnQ qui n’offre comme ornement que
la traditionnelle fleur de lys indiquant le nord
sur la rose des vents et deux modestes dessins de
monts. La carte de la BNF comporte également
deux encarts, consacrés à la traverse du cap
Tourmente et à la rade de Québec, absents de la
carte de BANQ. En outre, contrairement à la carte
de la BNF qui est enrichie de trois commentaires
distincts, la carte de BAnQ est exempte de texte.
On pourrait avancer qu’un commentaire associé
a pu exister au sein de l’ensemble documentaire
dont la carte faisait originellement partie. Mais ce
qui rend possible les commentaires sur la carte de
la BNF est essentiellement la désignation par des
lettres de l’extrémité des segments représentant
des lignes de battures ou de repère. Par exemple,
en formant un segment HJ, le cartographe peut
ajouter une explication telle que : « Cette [ligne]
HJ marque l’alignement qu’il faut prendre pour
parer le banc de la pointe aux Alouettes […] »9.
Or, les segments, bien qu’identiques sur la carte
de BAnQ, n’y sont pas nommés. Cette absence
de référentiel rend tout commentaire éventuel
sur une feuille séparée difficilement intelligible.
Dès lors, la carte de BAnQ pourrait-elle être une
version préliminaire de celle de la BNF ? Dans la
mesure où l’information cartographique y est la
même pour les deuxième et troisième feuillets (le
premier n’étant qu’une contextualisation basée
sur Deshayes), c’est une hypothèse recevable.
La différence majeure entre les deux cartes est
l’échelle des premier et troisième feuillets. Alors
que la carte conservée en France est tracée à une
échelle uniforme d’environ 1:341 00010, celle de
BAnQ présente une échelle différente pour chaque
feuillet. Le premier feuillet, qui représente le
territoire s’étendant du lac Ontario jusqu’à Québec
(non représenté sur la carte de la BNF) est tracé
à une échelle d’environ 1:336 000. Le troisième
feuillet, de Kamouraska à Anticosti, présente
une échelle d’approximativement 1:1 000 000.
L’utilisation d’échelles différentes sur la carte de
BAnQ pourrait être due à la nécessité de représenter
la totalité du fleuve avec une intention différente
selon ses portions (simplement indicative sur les
premier et troisième feuillets, critique pour la
navigation sur le deuxième) sur trois feuilles d’un
même format permettant de les relier en cahier.
Une lieue marine de France équivaut à 1/20e de degré
du périmètre terrestre, soit 555 670 centimètres.
Il est important de noter qu’au moment où nous
8Mahier, Carte figurative du promt secours envoyé par l'ordres [sic] de Monseigneur le Mr de Beauharnois,... gouverneur
et lieutenant général pour Sa Majesté dans tout l'estendue de la Nouvelle France, au vaisseau du Roy l'Eléphant, le 2
Sepbre 1729, 1729.
9Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du fleuve Saint-Laurent depuis Gaspé et Mingan jusqu'à Québec... prise... sur les
observations... que M. des Herbiers de Létanduère, capitaine de vaisseau, a faites dans les campagnes de 1730 et 1732, 1733.
10À l’exception des deux encarts qui ont leurs échelles propres.
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rédigeons ces lignes, la notice de la carte de la BNF
comporte une erreur. L’échelle calculée mentionnée
dans la description est d’environ 1:266 000. Or, après
demande de vérification, la BNF a mesuré le segment
représentant 15 lieues marines. Celui-ci serait de
24,5 cm, soit une échelle d’environ 1:341 000. Le
deuxième feuillet de la carte de BAnQ, représentant
le territoire situé entre Québec et l’île verte, présente
un segment de 24,3 cm pour 15 lieues marines, soit
une échelle 1 :343 000. Dans la mesure où le segment
de la carte de la BNF est traversé par une charnière
l’allongeant légèrement, on peut raisonnablement
a f f i r m e r q u ’ i l s ’ a g i t d e l a m ê m e é c h e l l e .
Par ailleurs, la droite qui représente les 15 lieues
marines est segmentée à l’identique sur les deux
cartes : cinq courts segments numérotés de 1 à 5
lieues suivis de deux segments plus grands, de 5
à 10 puis de 10 à 15. Mais il s’agit là d’un mode de
présentation de l’échelle trop commun au XVIIIe
siècle pour être considéré comme une similitude
significative entre les deux cartes comparées.
Notre correspondant à la BNF atteste que des trous
d’aiguille ou de poinçon sont également observables
sur Carte du fleuve Saint-Laurent depuis Gaspé et
Mingan jusqu’à Québec. Il n’a pas été possible de
coordonner une comparaison systématique de
l’emplacement de ces perforations avec nos confrères
de la BNF et l’image numérique de la carte disponible
sur Gallica ne permet malheureusement pas de
visualiser ces perforations. La plupart de celles
présentes sur la carte conservée à Montréal sont
également invisibles à l’oeil nu et ne sont révélées
que par l’examen à la table lumineuse. S’agissant
de deux cartes manuscrites sur lesquelles ne figure
aucune trace de carroyage, un réseau de points
de repère facilitant la production d’une copie
identique obtenu en perçant deux feuilles de papier
superposées était concevable. De nombreux trous
placés à l’ouest de l’île aux Coudres sur la carte de
BAnQ, par exemple, semblent correspondre aux
relevés bathymétriques de cette zone indiqués sur
la carte conservée en France. Nous ne sommes pas
en mesure de valider cette hypothèse. Néanmoins, la
simple présence de ces discrètes perforations (dont
peu, rappelons-le, sont dues à l’usage ordinaire du
compas) évoque une certaine parenté de facture.
Concernant la facture, on notera plus particulièrement
les similitudes suivantes :
Une manière commune de circonscrire l’espace de travail, soit un cadre noir avec, en parallèle à l’intérieur,
un liseré noir plus fin.
Des graphies identiques. Nous n’avons pas eu recours à une expertise graphologique mais la similitude est
patente :
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Le mont Camille et les mamelles de Matane. Non seulement la première utilisation du toponyme «
mamelles de Matane » est au crédit de Bellin11 mais les illustrations de monts associées à ces points de
repère sont une habitude du cartographe. Elles sont présentes jusque dans sa carte imprimée de 1761 :
11« Mont Camille » apparait pour la première fois sur la carte de Deshayes de 1715.
12Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du cours du fleuve de Saint Laurent depuis Quebec jusqu’a la mer, en deux feuilles, 1761.
13Lequel traduit littéralement en anglais ce toponyme : « paps of Matane ».
14Deshayes emploie « mont Camille » et « Matane » mais pas « mamelles de Matane ». Son copiste hollandais
Gerard Van Keulen et lui dessinent des monts à cet endroit. Bellin et d’Anville ont continué à ajouter cet ornement.
15Bourguignon d’Anville, Jean-Baptiste, Canada, Louisiane et terres angloises, Paris, 1755.
16Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte de la partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada, 1744.
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782) est
un des rares autres cartographes, avec notamment
Vaugondy et Carver13, à employer à la fois les
toponymes « mamelles de Matane » et « mont Camille
»14 en dessinant, lui aussi, des petits monts contigus
sur sa carte du Canada de 175515. À la fin des années
1750, la toponymie que d’Anville et Bellin emploient
pour décrire la Nouvelle-France est presque
identique. Les deux Français sont contemporains et
partagent plusieurs sources. En outre, on sait que,
alors qu’il travaille sur sa carte du Canada, d’Anville
a en main la Carte de la partie orientale de la Nouvelle
France ou du Canada publiée par Bellin en 174416.
La ressemblance entre leurs travaux n’est donc
pas surprenante. Mais la consultation des cartes
manuscrites de d’Anville conservées à la Bibliothèque
nationale de France (et disponibles sur Gallica)
dissipe tout doute éventuel tant la facture et la
graphie diffèrent de celles de la carte manuscrite de
BAnQ. D’autre part, d’Anville représente les mamelles
de Matane plus loin des rives du fleuve que Bellin et
il situe le mont Camille au nord-ouest des mamelles
de Matane alors que Bellin le situe au sud-ouest.
Considérant ces éléments convergents, nous
attribuons Carte du cours du fleuve St-Laurent
depuis le lac Ontario jusqu’à Québek à Jacques Nicolas
Bellin et la datons du tout début des années 1730.
Si elle contribue à éclairer l’hydrographie et la
toponymie du fleuve Saint-Laurent sous le régime
français, le contexte de sa création recèle encore bien
des incertitudes. S’agit-il d’une version préliminaire
de la carte de la BNF ? D’une copie de travail destinée
à être amendée par un navigateur ? Si oui, pourquoi
aucune mise à jour n’y a été effectuée ? Pourquoi
les commentaires explicatifs sur les éléments utiles
à la navigation sont-ils absents ? S’il s’agit d’un
travail préliminaire à une autre carte de Bellin,
comment s’est-elle retrouvée au Canada alors que
le Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine conserve
jalousement sa documentation ? Des recherches
subséquentes permettront peut-être d’éclaircir
le travail du cartographe de cabinet et de
répondre aux interrogations qui subsistent.
L’auteur remercie son collègue Jean-François
Palomino pour ses remarques judicieuses et son
soutien actif.
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Bibliographie
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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte du fleuve Saint-Laurent depuis Gaspé et Mingan jusqu'à Québec... prise... sur les
observations... que M. des Herbiers de Létanduère, capitaine de vaisseau, a faites dans les campagnes de 1730
et 1732, 1733. Num. Gallica
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Carte de la partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada, 1744. Num. Gallica
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, Observations sur la carte de la Manche, dressée au Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux
de la marine, pour le service des vaisseaux du roi… en 1749, Paris, Didot, 1744. Num. Gallica
Churchill, W. A, Watermarks in paper in Holland, England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII centuries and
their interconnection, Mansfield Centre, CT, Martino Pub, 2006
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l’Amérique du Nord, 1492-1814, Sillery, Éditions du Septentrion, avec la collaboration de BAnQ, 2007, 298 p.
Mahier, Carte figurative du promt secours envoyé par l'ordres [sic] de Monseigneur le Mr de Beauharnois,...
gouverneur et lieutenant général pour Sa Majesté dans tout l'estendue de la Nouvelle France, au vaisseau du
Roy l'Eléphant, le 2 Sepbre 1729, 1729. Num. Gallica
Palomino, Jean-François, Entre la recherche du vrai et l’amour de la patrie : cartographier la Nouvelle-France
au XVIIIe siècle, in Revue de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, n. 1, 2009, p. 84-99
Petto, Christine Marie, When France was king of cartography: the patronage and production of maps in early
modern France, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2007, 215 p.
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New Co-editors for the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries
We are pleased to announce that beginning with the year 2018 issues (volume 14) new co-editors
will lead the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries forward. Ms. Marcy M. Bidney, Curator of the
American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Mr. Nathan
B. Piekielek, the Geospatial Services Librarian and Head of the Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps
and Geospatial Information at the Pennsylvania State University are the new co-editors of JMGL.
Ms. Bidney and Mr. Piekielek are imminently qualified to serve in this important role, Ms. Bidney
earned her MLIS from Drexel University and a M.A. in Geography and Urban Studies from Temple
University, both in Philadelphia and a B.A. in Geography from Rowan University in New Jersey.
Mr. Piekielek holds advanced degrees from Montana State University (Ph.D.) and the University
of Georgia (Master of Science), and a B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University in Geographic
Information Science.
Both have knowledge and experiences deeply rooted in Geography, the GI Sciences and other
disciplines that will contribute to the success of the journal. We are very excited for Marcy and
Nathan, will be working with them through a transition period, and look forward to changes they
will make to strengthen and grow the journal. They can be contacted at jmgl.editors2@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Mr. Paige G. Andrew, Co-founder and co-editor
Ms. Katherine Hart Weimer, Co-editor
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries
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GEOSPATIAL DATA AND SOFTWARE REVIEWS
Tomasz Mrozewski
GeoGratis and Open Government
Reviewed by Tomasz Mrozewski
Laurentian University
tmrozewski@laurentian.ca
Earlier this year Natural Resources Canada’s
venerable GeoGratis catalogue shut its doors as part
of the Government of Canada’s “ongoing government
wide Web Renewal efforts”1. NRCAN shut down
the GeoGratis API on August 31, which resulted
in the closure of the Catalogue and Search tools.
Fortunately, this doesn’t mean an end to GeoGratis
as a whole. As of mid-November, 2017, the GeoGratis
website remains available2, albeit with limited
functionality due to the shutdown of the search and
catalogue, and the What’s New page provides updated
information on datasets as recently as October, 20173.
However, the primary interface for data discovery has
moved to the Open Government portal at http://
open.canada.ca/en. GeoGratis data is still stored on
the NRCAN FTP site4 and most or all access requests
through Open Government appear to point to the FTP.
Although NRCAN’s press release ascribes the
change of search tool as to the government-wide
web renewal initiative, the treatment of geospatial
data stems more specifically from the launch of
the Federal Geospatial Platform (FGP). The FGP
is an initiative to combine federal geospatial data
holdings into a “an internal site... and a public site
entitled Open Maps, on the Open Government Portal5.
Open Maps is a sub-portal of Open Government
dedicated to geospatial data located at http://
open.canada.ca/en/open-maps; searching through
this portal automatically applies the Open Maps
filter (see below) but otherwise provides the
same results as the Open Government portal.
The chief advantage of moving the holdings is that
the GeoGratis holdings are now available alongside
geospatial data from many other ministries and
departments, including Environment and Climate
Change, Fisheries and Oceans, Agriculture and
Agric-Food, and others. The drawbacks, however,
are familiar to any librarian tasked with keeping tabs
on any sort of government information: moving data
means updating links in finding aids and resource
lists, as well as getting accustomed to yet another
portal. In regard to this last point, the interface of the
Open Government portal is at least familiar in look and
feel to the latest iterations of the GeoGratis catalogue
and the metadata appears to be comparable. With
respect to location, however, GeoGratis seemed to
be exceptionally stable relative to other government
sites: it lived at the geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca domain from
at least as early as 19996 until it moved to geogratis.
gc.ca domain sometime in 2013 - that domain still
redirects to the GeoGratis page on the NRCAN website.
1Closure of the GeoGratis Catalogue and Search Tool! Natural Resources Canada
(https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/whats-new/
19829, retrieved November 15, 2017).
2http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/11042
3GeoGratis - What’s New, Natural Resources Canada,
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/whats-new/17213
(retrieved November 15, 2017)
4ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/
5The Federal Geospatial Platform, Natural Resources Canada (http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geomatics/
canadas-spatial-data-infrastructure/geospatial-communities/federal, retrieve November 15, 2017).
6Wayback Machine
(https://web.archive.org/web/19991012140142/http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca:80/frames.html, retrieved November
16, 2017).
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According to NRCAN, the entire holdings of the
GeoGratis catalogue were migrated to the Open
Government site with the exception of certain
datasets which GeoGratis did not produce, including
municipal boundaries, land cover, some National
Air Photo Library images, and electoral district
and polling station boundaries7. At least some of
this other data has been uploaded to the portal
by other providers: for example, 2015 federal
Polling Division Boundaries that were formerly
hosted in GeoGratis have been added to the portal
under the auspices of Elections Canada. Over the
course of multiple test searches, I found isolated
cases where files in a GeoGratis dataset pointed
to deprecated URLs in the GeoGratis catalogue8;
however, this appears to be an exception to the rule.
There are two text search filters for isolating
geospatial data in the Open Government portal:
Geospatial and Open Maps. Although the FGP
suggests that Open Maps is the prefered source
for geospatial data holdings, there appears to be
some confusion in the implementation. Raster
images from historical editions of the Atlas of
Canada which were previously held in GeoGratis
are tagged as Geospatial but not as Open Maps
despite being non-georeferenced map images. Over
several sample searches I found that searches using
the Geospatial filter resulted in richer results than
the Open Maps filter and, at time of writing, there
are 72,253 Geospatial items in the portal but only
699 Open Maps. Many of the Open Maps datasets
appear to be tagged as Geospatial items as well.
The main distinction between Open Maps and
Geospatial collections seems to be that selecting
the Open Maps filter in the search results makes
a Map Viewer filter appear. This filter allows
users to select for datasets “Viewable on Map” -
the interactive, browser-based Open Maps Data
Viewer. This distinction suggests that an Open Map
is functionally defined as geospatial data which is
georeferenced and may be manipulated, which seems
counter to the more common usage which holds that
“map” refers to a static image. The visualizer allows
multiple datasets to be viewed simultaneously by
adding them to a Map Cart. I found the Open Maps
Data Viewer to be temperamental in current versions
of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer: some
datasets seemed to load without trouble but others
loaded only incompletely or loaded different parts
of the dataset depending on the focus of the map
window. However, the Data Viewer is a great idea
and hopefully it will become usable with the larger
collection of Geospatial data, not just the Open Maps.
The biggest omission in the migration seems
to be that the Geospatial Data Extraction tool is
not profiled on the Open Government or Open
Maps portals. The tool has moved to a new site at
http://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-en.html and is
prominently linked from the GeoGratis page on the
NRCAN site but requires some digging to access
from the Open Government and Open Maps portals.
Although the shutdown of the GeoGratis API
may cause some mild inconvenience, that will no
doubt be outweighed by the collocation of many
government providers’ geospatial data in a single
portal. The portal will become even more valuable
if the Open Maps Data Viewer is made compatible
with more of the Geospatial datasets in the catalogue.
Tomasz Mrozewski is Data, GIS, and Government
Documents Librarian at Laurentian University in
Sudbury, Ontario.
7Client Services, National Resources Canada, private correspondence
8See, example, the reference to the “GeoGratis Dataset Record” as the Guide to Landsat ETM+ mosaic of northern
Canada - Red band
(http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7367c940-e452-5d82-8f68-90040cfcce62). As of November 16, 2017, the
URL for that resource
(http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/7367c940-e452-5d82-8f68-90040cfcce62.html) redirects to an
Open Government search for NRCAN resources.
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REVIEWS
Edited by Sarah Simpkin
The Human Atlas of Europe: A Continent United
in Diversity
Rhys Stevens
Ballas, Dimitris, Dorling, Danny, and Hennig,
Benjamin. The Human Atlas of Europe: A Continent
United in Diversity. Chicago, IL: Policy Press,
2017. 188p. $34.95 US. ISBN 978-1447313540.
The Human Atlas of Europe: A Continent United
in Diversity explores Europe’s society, culture,
economy, politics and environment using a series of
maps, infographics and explanatory commentary.
The authors note that, “The maps presented in this
atlas show just how different the separate countries,
regions and great cities of this continent are, but
also the ways in which they are often so similar.”
Countries included are either current European
Union members, official potential candidates, or
state signatories to agreements such as the European
Economic Area or European Monetary Union, which
results in Turkey appearing in the atlas but not Russia.
This atlas is organized into a series of sections
that include chapters on Population, Wealth &
Poverty, Health, Education, Work, Environment,
Politics, Identity & Culture, and EU Budget. All
chapters include a brief one-page overview and
a series of 15-20 statistical indicators for each
separate topic. Indicators visualized and explained
in Chapter B – Population, for example, include items
about refugees and asylum-seekers, people who
live in a different country from that of their birth,
the geographical distribution of the Roma people,
inequalities in life expectancy, etc. Data sources
used to create indicators are clearly documented,
relatively up-to-date (i.e., 2014-15), and are from
reputable international government organizations
such as the World Bank, UN, WHO, and Eurostat.
Visualizations included in the atlas are 140+ maps
which distinguish this volume from other sources.
Co-authors of the atlas are geography professors at
European universities who make excellent use of
their mapmaking and human geography expertise
throughout the volume. Instead of simply reflecting
country land areas on their maps, the authors have
used novel human cartography techniques to show
Books Reviewed in this Issue:
The Human Atlas of Europe: A Continent United in Diversity
by Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling, and Hennig, Benjamin
Reviewed by Rhys Stevens
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A Workbook
by Kathryn Keranen and Kolvoord, Robert
Reviewed by Tomasz Mrozewski
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and our Minds
by Greg Milner
Reviewed by Brian Jackson
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each country sized in proportion to its population
as well as other social statistics. The result of these
techniques is a series of sophisticated and visually
interesting maps that also retain European country
shapes and boundaries. These map types are known
as country cartograms, population cartograms,
and gridded-population cartograms. Thanks to
these innovative methods, the thematic maps
appearing in the atlas are effective in displaying
a significant amount of statistical information
without overwhelming the reader. This makes it
convenient for atlas users to get complete overview
of a specific statistical indicator at a single glance.
Narrative overviews, tabular statistics and
explanatory highlights accompany all visualizations
that appear in the atlas. These features are particularly
valuable to atlas users as they provide insight into the
importance of the information presented. In Chapter
I – Identity & Culture, for example, the General
Happiness section provides information about the
survey instrument (European Values Survey), specific
questions asked, and how linguistic issues affect
responses to happiness questions. Interestingly, the
tabular information containing numerical values for
happiness indicates that Netherlands (56.1%) and
Iceland (51.1%) had the highest estimated numbers
of very happy people. A minor quibble about atlas
data tables is that only the values for five highest and
five lowest countries are included which limits the
utility of the atlas as a statistical reference source.
All original data sources are, however, available in
the Notes and Sources section of the atlas for those
interested in locating complete statistical information.
Overall, the unique maps and the brief yet high-quality
commentaries that accompany them make
The Human Atlas of Europe an excellent resource for
undergraduate students seeking current, factual and
accessible information about the people of Europe.
Rhys Stevens
Librarian III
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A
Workbook
Tomasz Mrozewski
Keranen, Kathryn and Kolvoord, Robert. Making
Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A Workbook
Redlands, CA: Esri Press, 2017. xv + 360 pages.
$69.99. ISBN 9781589484849.
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro
is a new, “college-level textbook” (p. xiii) from
Esri Press. Authors Keranen and Kolvoord are
experienced GIS educators and are also responsible
for three previous offerings in the Making Spatial
Decisions series: Making Spatial Decisions Using
GIS (which went through multiple editions),
Using GIS and Remote Sensing (Esri Press, 2013),
and Using GIS and Lidar (Esri Press, 2015) - all
of which centered on the Desktop platform.
Using ArcGIS Pro adapts exercises from the three
previous volumes for use with the Pro platform.
As with previous entries in the series, Using ArcGIS
Pro is not designed to be an introductory guide
to GIS or to Esri software. Instead, as the series
name suggests, it outlines processes for leveraging
software to make actionable decisions in real-life
scenarios. The book is divided into nine modules
that cover impressive breadth: managing traffic
network and evacuations in emergencies; tracking
natural disaster damage; making policy decisions on
socioeonomic data; creating multispectral imagery;
supervised and unsupervised classification; working
with lidar; placing solar panels; and working with
land cover. Each module consists of two projects:
the first a click-by-click walkthrough of each step in
the overall task, and the second a related but more
loosely guided task requiring the reader to adapt
what they learned in the first project. Each project is
composed of several deliverables, including process
logs, maps, and reports. All required data for the
projects is available, at time of writing, publicly
through ArcGIS Online and the book does come with
a single EVA code printed in the back cover for access
to the software. The authors estimate that each of the
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18 projects requires two hours to complete.
Contrary to the authors’ directions, I did take Using
ArcGIS Pro as an excuse to install and use ArcGIS Pro
for the first time. I was especially impressed by the
scope of the modules on offer and, as a self-taught GIS
user, found several useful suggestions for improving
my workflows and was generally able to complete
the projects in something like the estimated time for
completion. Although it is generally a well-executed
learning tool, I have serious underlying issues with the
work which lead me to question the value of the book.
The greatest drawback of Making Spatial Decisions
Using ArcGIS Pro, is unsurprisingly, its total
dependence on ArcGIS Pro. The book emphasizes
the software to the detriment of making spatial
decisions. While there is some passing discussion of
the rationale for some of the tasks, the projects are
procedural walkthroughs that offer little in the way of
general and transferable principles. In other words, it
is less about making spatial decisions and more about
procedures for generating outputs with pre-given
data. For example, module 1 (on traffic networks
and evacuation in emergencies) relies on a feature
class called Stops that are vital to traffic routing but
provides no indication of what these features are or
of what decisions led to their creation and placement.
There are also suggested study questions but no
teacher’s guide to accompany them—potentially an
issue for a textbook. This emphasis on procedure
over principle would make it very difficult to adapt
these projects to other GIS platforms. While it is not
surprising that a software publisher would create
workbooks geared to their own products, it is also
true that this significantly limits the usefulness
of such a workbook in an educational institution.
Both the software and the projects also require an
Esri site license and an institutional instance of
ArcGIS Online, making the book useless if the reader
doesn’t have that access to that full infrastructure
or if they are unable to get a properly configured
ArcGIS Online user account. Some of the projects
also require use of ArcGIS Online processing credits.
The first project of modules requires seven credits
to complete which is not a large amount; mistakes (I
had to repeat the task three times to get it right) and
class size will escalate demand. Project usage could
also become an issue for institutions with higher
enrolments and greater demand for processing credits.
Another major drawback is the the workbook was
outdated by the time it left the print shop. According
to the authors, “[t]he activities in this book were
developing using ArcGIS Pro 1.3.1 and testing on
ArcGIS Pro 1.4”; however, they note in the same
paragraph 2.0 had just been released and would be
used by any readers. They direct readers to treat
the Catalog (sic) pane in 2.0 as equivalent to the
Project pane in earlier versions. Unfortunately, when
working through some of the projects I found several
more confusing disparities between Using ArcGIS
Pro and the 2.0 software I was using, especially
where file and data management were concerned.
Although these were not critical issues and I was able
to find workarounds, my experience using ArcGIS
with students makes me imagine that these small
changes could engender significant confusion in an
undergraduate class. I question the value of publishing
a print book so quickly stale dated, especially when
Esri already makes similar content available through
the training portal1. The book will only become less
relevant as further updates are made to the software.
Making Spatial Decisions Using an ArcGIS Pro is
an impressive showcase for ArcGIS Pro but under-delivers
in teaching students how to make decisions
and was out of date before it went to press. GIS
librarians may wish to spend their limited collections
dollars on items with greater longevity and wider
applicability.
Tomasz Mrozewski
Data, GIS and Government Documents librarian &
Engineering liaison librarian /
Bibliothécaire pour les données, les services géospatials
et les documents gouvernementaux & bibliothécaire
spécialisé pour la génie
Laurentian University Library and Archives /
Bibliothèque et archives, Université Laurentienne
Sudbury, Ontario
1Esri Training, https://www.esri.com/training/ (retrieved Nov. 14, 2017).
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Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology,
Culture, and our Minds
Brian Jackson
Milner, Greg. Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing
Technology, Culture, and our Minds. New York: W.W.
Norton & Company, 2017. 322p. ISBN 978-0-393-
35436-2.
In Pinpoint, Greg Milner guides readers through the
history of GPS, from its early foundations as a purely
military technology to its indispensible use in an
astonishing array of modern applications. Through
narrative descriptions of these applications, the
author convincingly depicts GPS as a subtly pervasive
yet potentially fragile system on which society is
increasingly dependent. This dependence is changing
how we interact with each other and the world,
but is also placing us at risk, according to Milner.
Milner bookends the story of GPS with descriptions
of etak, an all-but-extinct wayfinding technique
formerly used by Polynesians to travel between
Pacific islands without the use of navigational
technology. The engrossing story of etak highlights
the role of perspective in shaping our understandings
of our place in and movement through the world,
tying nicely with the author’s brief discussion of
projection, reference systems, and the interpretation
of GPS location through the lens of GIS tools.
The core of the book is divided into two parts. In the
first, Milner outlines the development of GPS, from
the origins of the idea of satellite-based positioning,
through the US military’s development and eventual
opening of the Global Positioning System for civilian
use, to the systems behind current precision
applications. Much of this history is told through
the lens of the people involved. Through anecdotes
interspersed with accessible technical details,
Milner keeps the actors human without downplaying
the significance and complexity of their work.
The second part begins with a chapter titled
“Death by GPS,” which includes bewildering
descriptions of the blind faith that some people
have placed, to their peril, on GPS-based
mapping tools, and sets a tone of both awe and
caution for the remainder of the book. The awe
stems from Milner’s emphasis on just how accurate
GPS is and the uses to which it has been put. Once
again, Milner situates the science within the human
stories of the use of GPS in flight navigation, the
transportation industry, predicting weather, and
detecting earthquakes. But peppered throughout
these descriptions are Milner’s warnings about
the risks of such deep reliance on a technology
that is vulnerable to sabotage and that may be
subtly influencing the way we think about location
and space. Milner ends the paperback edition
in this tone, and although his intention is to
provide new information to the reader, his closing
pessimism detracts somewhat from the admiration
for the technology that the rest of the book inspires.
Milner is a journalist with a long resume that includes
writings for New Yorker, the New York Times, Village
Voice, Rolling Stone, and many other publications,
as well as one previous book. His works are aimed
at general audiences, and Pinpoint is no different.
Although Milner’s primary approach is to chronicle
the history of GPS through the stories of those
involved, he doesn’t sacrifice technical details. His
descriptions of these area are lucid, leaving the
reader with an elementary grasp of the technology
and science behind satellite-based location systems.
As such, Pinpoint serves as not only an engaging
read, but as an easy introduction to the topic of
satellite positioning for those with a budding interest.
Brian Jackson
Data and GIS Librarian
Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta
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From the Reviews Editor:
Thanks to those who submitted book reviews and to all who have expressed interest in reviewing!
I’ll continue to request review copies from publishers - but please let me know if you have read a
book of interest to the ACMLA and would like to submit a review, and if you have any suggestions
for titles/sources. Here are the review guidelines:
Review Format
1. Bibliographic Citation
This should include: author, title, edition, place of publication, publisher, date, number of pages,
price (if known) and ISBN. Example:
Bussey, Ben and Spudis, Paul D. The Clementine Atlas of the Moon. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2004. 316p. $80.00 US. ISBN 0-521-81528-2.
2. Content
The review should describe and critically evaluate the work. Typical review elements include:
scope, purpose and content of the work; intended audience; writing style; background and authority
of the author; how the work compares with other titles on the same subject; its usefulness as a
research tool; any unique features; and its suitability for library collections.
The length of the review is at the reviewer’s discretion, but should normally reflect the importance
of the work. A typical review is about 500 words.
3. Your name, title, institutional affiliation, city and province/state
Editorial Policy
Opinions expressed in reviews are those of the reviewer, not of the ACMLA. The Reviews Editor
may make minor edits, without communicating with the reviewer. Should the Editor determine
that a major revision is required, she will contact the reviewer for discussion.
Sarah Simpkin
Reviews Editor
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REGIONAL NEWS
Edited by Marilyn Andrews
Alberta
Edmonton Map Society
David Jones
Mexico Colonial Indigenous Maps and Edmonton’s
Natural Areas
Two speakers were on the agenda of the Edmonton
Map Society Fall meeting which took place at 7:00
p.m. on Thursday, November 2nd at Claridge House,
11027 – 87th Avenue. Twenty members were in
attendance.
The title of the talk delivered by Tanya Ball and Ann
De León was Mexican Colonial Indigenous “Maps”:
Decolonizing Multilayered Narratives of Sacred Place
and Time.
The speakers addressed the visually rich and
multilayered narratives of place contained in
some Codices (painted manuscripts and books)
produced by various Mexican indigenous tlacuilo’s
(painter-scribes) during the colonial time period.
Case studies included the renowned Codex Mendoza
(1542) frontispiece map of Tenochtitlan (today
Mexico City) vis-a-vis its European counterpart, the
Nuremberg Map (1524) and the largest encyclopedic
compendium of Aztec (Mexican) culture and religion,
the Florentine Codex (1569), to name a few. Questions
addressed included: What survives and what is
transformed in indigenous map-making production
during colonial times? How can we attempt to
decolonize previous western interpretation of
space and re-read indigenous ways of knowing in
these maps? Is the current digitization and the
making of some of these codices into apps breaking
down barriers of accessibility and understanding
or is it perpetuating larger colonial constructs?
Catherine Shier followed with an engaging
presentation on a topic closer to home titled
History of Natural Area mapping in Edmonton.
The City of Edmonton has developed an Urban
Primary Land and Vegetation Inventory (UPLVI).
This natural asset tracking inventory provides
city managers with detailed information about
sensitive and unique ecological communities
found throughout Edmonton. This inventory
is instrumental to effectively manage the City’s
environmental and ecological assets through the
land development process. In addition, it is currently
being used to support important city projects
such as the Environmental Sensitivities Project
and Master planning in the River Valley: projects
that are designed to help move Edmonton closer
to its sustainability goals over the next 30 years.
University of Lethbridge
Rhys Stevens
Flying High! (or at the very least, boxes stacked
high!)
Rhys Stevens made a proposal in spring 2017 to
the Department of Geography; it was an offer they
could not refuse. The offer, to transfer more than
30,000 historical air photos from the department to
the Library to store, was made as a result of many
meetings which Rhys had with numerous faculty
members and GIS lab instructors. Additionally, he
travelled to the University of Calgary library where
he met with friendly and helpful staff who shared
their knowledge and experiences of managing a large
photograph collection.
Subsequently, Rhys and a student assistant have
been deluged with photographs which were
previously stored in filing cabinets and are now
contained in approximately 100 archival storage
boxes (all labelled with little yellow sticky notes).
The mammoth project of inventorying the collection
has begun and details such as survey numbers, year,
scale, flight line, NTS #, etc. are being recorded.
Excel spreadsheets are being used for the project.
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ONTARIO
Brock University
Colleen Beard
Digitizing Air Photos / GIS Day – Pizza and Cake!
Maps, Data and GIS Library (MDGL) staff, guided
by Sharon Janzen, have been very active with
digitizing their historical air photo collection,
creating seamless mosaic datasets, and building
a web app to share them. I invite all to have a
look at our AGOL index: http://arcg.is/105G0O.
Thousands of photos are included in the online
mosaics as well as available in jpg format from
a point based index. Perhaps one to showcase at
Once Upon a Data Point! As an enhancement to
the OCUL historical topographic maps digitization
project, the Topographic Maps of Niagara story
map was created featuring the swipe template
https://arcg .is/0uLnuD. Again, mosaic datasets
were prepared to provide seamless coverage of
historic topographic series. All this content is
hosted online and can be added to ArcMap or Pro.
Colleen Beard recently gave a talk to a very
engaging Niagara audience Mapping the Historic
Welland Canals one lock at a time – My stories.
As part of her research leave, an HGIS approach
was used to digitally recreate the three 19th
century historic canals in St. Catharines, Ontario
as they overlay on today’ s landscape. Although
most features have been bulldozed or left for
ruin, many of the second and third canal features
have survived. Collector for ArcGIS was used in
the field to capture the location of these features
and document their current structural condition,
supported with photographs. Historical images that
provide a “then and now” landscape view enhance
the project. Please explore https://arcg.is/Xq0ae
The GIS Day at Brock featured the 2018 Esri
GIS scholarship competition proposals in which
students vied for the big prize. Once again, the
day was celebrated with the popular GIS Jeopardy,
pizza, prizes, and GIS cake!
The photos were taken between 1949 and 1982
and come from both Alberta and national surveys.
British Columbia
University of British Columbia
Evan Thornberry
Hello and Welcome!
Evan Thornberry was brought on as the new GIS
Librarian at the University of British Columbia
in Vancouver in August 2017. Evan joined an
active community of map and GIS users around
the UBC campus and is most excited about
growing the library’s services for spatial research.
Evan’s route to Vancouver was via Boston, MA
where he worked as the Reference and Geospatial
Librarian for the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
(LMC), a nonprofit organization that manages the
cartographic collections at the Boston Public Library.
Evan was the Project Director for a grant-funded
project to update the LMC’s digital collections,
including adding several geospatial enhancements.
Prior to working in Boston, he was the Map Library
Manager for the Huxley Map Library at Western
Washington University (WWU) in Bellingham,
Washington. Evan earned his degrees from the
University of Washington (Master of Library and
Information Science, 2012) and WWU (Bachelor
of Arts in Geography / Social Studies, 2006).
Why wait to CARTO 2018? You can “meet’ Evan now
by sending him a message: evan.thornberry@ubc.ca.
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University of Ottawa
Joël Rivard
Staff / Graduate GIS Workshops / PCCF vs
PCCF+/ Historical Map and Book Display
Sarah Simpkin was able to begin channelling her
efforts towards digital humanities duties with the
arrival of Joël Rivard in the Geographic, Statistical
and Government Information Centre (GSC-Centre).
Joël assumed the position of Geography and GIS
Replacement Librarian after gaining more than 14
years of experience as the cartographic specialist
in the Maps, Data & Government Information
Centre (MADGIC), MacOdrum Library at Carleton
University.
Over the course of the summer and fall, GSG staff
engaged in developing instructional materials, as
well as, updating and editing webpages content.
Instructional sessions for graduate students were
delivered on the following topics: Mapping 2016
Census Data using QGIS and Analyzing Spatial
Patterns Using Climate Data in ArcGIS. The popular
1.5-hour sessions were attended by students in
health sciences, geography, business and other
areas.
GSG-Centre staff were also been occupied with
studying and learning the differences between the
Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF) and the Postal
Code Conversion File Plus (PCCF+), as well as, the
pros and cons of each. Requests for these files are
on the rise and Data Analyst René Duplain and
Data Librarian Susan Mowers are actively creating
supporting documentation and procedures to
better serve users with these products.
Maps and books related to the history of North
America and Canada are currently on display in
the GSG-Centre. The presentation, developed
by Pierre Leblanc, the Cartographic & GIS
Support Specialist, enables visitors to relive
the history of the discovery, exploration, and
colonization of Canada through cartography.
Pierre’s next project is to convert the display
into an Esri Story Map. How Exciting! Stay tuned.
GCG-Centre staff participated in the planning of
the Geography Awareness Week event, which was
organized by the University of Ottawa, Carleton
University, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
and the Canadian Association of Geographers. The
event took place on Tuesday, November 14th from
5 p.m. – 9 p.m. and included an education summit,
lightning round presentations and networking. The
event was open to all geographers, big and small, as
everyone was asked to put geography on the map.
University of Waterloo
Eva Dodsworth
Censuses / Fire Insurance Plans / Videos and
Courses
As some of you may know, Statistics Canada
demographic data have been made available in
a map-able GIS format from 1996+. However,
by manually going through the various Censuses
of Canada government documents in both print
and microfilm format, staff have been able to
create provincial GIS datasets rich with attributes
for the years between 1901 and 1951. For each
census year, there are hundreds of different
metrics that were collected, proving us with
historical data covering topics like Age & Sex,
Income, Unemployment, Literacy, Horsepower
& Power Generation, Years of Schooling, War
Service, Rural Population and more. This project
is far from complete, however, we do hope to
share the data with those interested in the future.
Another project we have been working on is
digitizing fire insurance plans for the purposes
of creating historical vector building and
street files from them. We are populating the
building attributes with rich information made
available from the plans, including company
name, building type, stairs, sprinklers, elevator,
construction type, roof, stories, H20 pumps.
We hope this information will be of interest
to those studying the history of the Region of
Waterloo, as well as those looking to analyze urban
change (many buildings to this day still exist).
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This past summer we were busy creating a
video of the Geospatial Centre for courses that
are taught online: https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=8pjBapWWnx0.
We organized a GIS Day event which included
Lightning Talks, a Geospatial Open House and an
OpenStreetMap Mapathon.
U.S.A.
Port Huron, Michigan
Alberta Auringer Woods
New location, but still in the game!
Alberta Auringer Woods writes:
This is not inspiring, but maybe some members
will find it interesting. After 40 years of living in
Canada, I am moving back to the USA. I’m buying a
house in Port Huron, Michigan, and will be packing
up and moving my belongings over next week, if all
goes according to schedule. My house in Ilderton
is sold with the closing coming up on Nov. 6th.
I close on 929 Huron Avenue on Nov. 10th. My
sister, nephew and I will be sharing the house. My
nephew is a working librarian, while my sister and
I are both retired librarians. As many will recall,
my husband Cliff passed away in September 2016.
After I get settled in, I hope to get some more of the
Map Scale Indicators reprinted onto plastic. Will let
folks know about that later. I also hope to be able
to get back to working on my online bibliography
of maps of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Best regards,
Alberta
Alberta Auringer Wood
Memorial University of Newfoundland (Retired)
929 Huron Avenue
Port Huron, MI 48060
T: 810-987-2892
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Assocation of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Awards
The ACMLA Awards Committee is responsible for three awards given by the Association. We invite
nominations for these awards and encourage members to participate in the selection of the awards for
outstanding accomplishments in our field.
ACMLA Honours Award
The Awards Committee invites nominations for the ACMLA Honours Award. According to the guidelines
for the award, the nominee should be a person who has made an outstanding contribution in the
field of map/GIS librarianship. The contribution may either be for a specific activity or for general
services and contributions such as continued membership in the Association with active participation
either as an executive officer, committee chairperson, or committee member. Normally, membership
in ACMLA is a prerequisite; however, that does not preclude considering outstanding non-members.
Deadline : 30 April 2018
ACMLA Cathy Moulder Paper Award
To be eligible for the Paper Award, which carries a $200 monetary prize, a feature article of at least three
pages in length, by one or more authors, must have appeared the ACMLA Bulletin during 2017. We are
looking for articles that make a solid contribution to map librarianship, including carto bibliographies.
Originality, uniqueness of subject matter and depth of research will be taken into consideration.
Deadline : 30 April 2018
ACMLA Student Paper Award
As a reminder, the ACMLA Awards Committee would like you to encourage students to submit their papers
for the Student Paper Award. The Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives encourages and
supports activities which further the awareness, use and understanding of geographic information by
Canadians. To this end, post- secondary students are encouraged to submit a paper for the ACMLA Student
Paper Award competition.
The Student Paper Award will consist of a prize of $250 and free membership in the Association for one year.
The award includes an invitation to present the winning paper at the Annual Conference. The Association
will waive registration fees and provide a travel stipend of up to $250. The award will normally be given
on an annual basis to a student from Canada or studying in Canada currently enrolled in a post-secondary
institution (college or university). The essay will be original and unpublished and of no more than 3000
words. Primary consideration for the award will be given to the essay’s originality and its contribution
to new knowledge and insight. Other considerations include the author’s demonstration of the relevance
of the subject, the quality of the presentation and documentation, and the literary merits of the essay.
Deadline : 30 April 2018
For more complete details regarding the awards, please see the ACMLA Awards web page <http://acmla-acacc.
ca/awards.php> or contact: Deena Yanofsky, ACMLA Awards Committee, past-president@acmla-acacc.ca.
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Prix de l’ACACC
Le Comité des prix et mérites ACACC est responsable de trois prix décernés par l'Association. Nous invitons
les nominations pour ces prix et encourager les membres à participer à la sélection des prix pour réalisations
exceptionnelles dans notre domaine.
Prix d'excellence de l'ACACC
Le comité des prix et mérites invite les membres de l'ACACC à soumettre la candidature du membre
qui, à leurs avis, est admissible au Prix d'excellence. Selon les régles du concours, l'heureux(se)
élu(e) sera toute personne dont le nom a été retenue en vertu de sa participation considerable au
développement de la profession de cartothécaire. Sa contribution peut se quantifier de différentes
façons: activités particulières ou générales, participation soutenue au sein de l'Association en tant
que membre d'autres comités. Bien que ce concours s'adresse surtout et avant tout aux adhérents
de l'Association, cependant, non-adhérent exceptionneles peuvent être considéré pour le prix.
Date limite pour soumettre votre rédaction : le 30 avril 2018
Cathy Moulder ACMLA Prix d'essai
Selon les règles du concours, l'heureux(se) élu(e), qui recevra une bourse de 200 $, devra avoir publié un
article d'au moins trois pages au sein d'une édition du Bulletin de l’ACACC en 2017. Le comité recherché
principalement les articles ou les carto-bibliographies, qui alimentent et soutiennent le développement de la
discipline Les articles seront jugés selon les critères d'originalité du thème choisi et du niveau de recherche.
Date limite pour soumettre votre rédaction : le 30 avril 2018
Prix annuel de l’ACACC pour article étudiant
Le comité des prix et mérites de l'ACACC tenons à vous pour encourager les étudiants à participer
dans le Prix annuel de l'ACACC pour article étudiant. Le concours est admissible à toute personne
originaire du Canada ou qui étudie au Canada et qui est présentement inscrite à un etablissement post-secondaire
(collège ou université). Les articles doivent être rédigés durant l’année scolaire en cours.
Le prix annuel de l'ACACC pour article étudiant et se composera d'un montant de 250.00 $ et les
droits d'adhésion à l'Association pour une année. Le prix inclus également une invitation présenter
la communication lors de la conférence annuelle de l'ACACC tenue à la fin mai ou au début juin. Si le
récipiendaire répond à cette invitation, il sera dispensé des frais d'inscription au congrès et l'Association
lui allouera un montant jusqu’ à 250.00$, avec recettes, pour couvrir les frais de voyage. L'article doit
être original et ne jamais avoir été publié. Il doit comporter moins de 3 000 mots. Les juges porteront
l'attention en premier lieu sur l'originalité du sujet et sur son apport en nouvelles connaissances et idées
novatrices. L'article sera également jugé sur la façon don’t l'auteur démontre la pertinence du sujet, sur
la qualité générale de la présentation et de la documentation ainsi que sur la qualité littéraire du texte.
Date limite pour soumettre votre rédaction : le 30 avril 2018
Pour obtenir des détails complets sur les prix vous pouvez consulter les lignes directrices (en anglais) sur
notre site web : http://www.acmla-acacc.ca/awards_committee.php ou contactez
Deena Yanofsky
Comité des prix et mérites de l’ACACC
past-president@acmla-acacc.ca
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MAPS
Lake Louise & Yoho
Gem Trek Publishing
2017
ISBN 97818955266875
Jasper & Maligne Lake
Gem Trek Publishing
2017
ISBN 9781895526882
Banff & Mt. Assiniboine
Gem Trek Publishing
2017
ISBN 978189526844
First Nations and Treaties (Ontario)
2017
Free - publication service Ontario
was item number 025998
ISBN 9781460630211
Call 1-800-668-9938
Oil & Gas Pools & Pipelines of Southern Ontario
Oil, Gas & Salt Resources Library
2017
Zambia
Reise-Know-How
2017
ISBN 9783831773909
Azores
Reise-Know-How
2017
ISBN 9783831773626
Israel, Palestine
Reise-Know-How
2017
ISBN 9783831772681
European Union: Pre and Post Brexit
XYZ Maps Ltd
2017
ISBN 9781910937976 (Pre)
ISBN 9781910937983 (Post)
New Zealand
Michelin
2017
ISBN 9782067217201
Croatian Coast
Cartographia
2017
ISBN 9789633521212
Silk Road
Reise-Know-How
2017
ISBN 9783831773985
South America – The Andes
Nelles Verlag
2017
ISBN 9783865744463
Morocco
Reise-Know-How
2017
ISBN 9783831773060
GLOBE
Pluto
Sky & Telescope
ISBN 9781940038544
ATLASES
Water: An Atlas is a crowdsourced atlas that
portrays water trends, usage issues and global
events all created by volunteer cartographers
from around the world.
http://www.guerrillacartography.org/
NEW CARTOGRAPHIC RESOURCES: MAPS, ATLASES, AND BOOKS
Compiled by Cheryl Woods
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Atlas of the Near East
Fabrice Balanche
2017
ISBN 9789004344297
E-ISBN 9789004345188
Atlas géopolitique d’Israël
Frédéric Encel
2017
ISBN 9782746744820
Atlas of the World
Oxford University Press
2017
ISBN 9780190843625
Atlas of the Human Planet 2017
Publications Office of the European Union
ISBN 9789279679582 (print)
ISBN 9789279679599 (pdf)
Ontario Back Road Atlas
MapArt
2017
ISBN 9781551982267
Urban Water Atlas for Europe
Publications Office of the European Union
2017
ISBN 9789279630514 (pdf)
ISBN 9789279630507 (print)
Hungary Road Atlas
Cartographia
2017
ISBN 9789633526569
Atlas of Ancient Rome
Princeton University Press
2017
ISBN 9780691163475
BOOKS
NEW VIEWS: The World Mapped Like Never Before
Alastair Bonnett
2017
ISBN 9781781316399
E-ISBN 9781781317334
Maps of Delhi
Pilar Maria Guerrieri
2017
ISBN 9789385285509
Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook
David Smith
2017
ISBN 9781589484832
GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications
Dimitris Ballas
2017
ISBN 9781138785120
Tribal GIS: Supporting Native American Decision-
Making
Anne Taylor
2017
ISBN 9781589485037
Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting
Information from Imagery
Kass Green
2017
ISBN 9781589484542
Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A
Workbook
Kathryn Keranen
2017
ISBN 9781589484849
Exploring Africa with Ancient Maps
Wulf Bodenstein
2017
ISBN 9789492244796
ISSN 0840-9331