Map
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| Object Name: | Map |
|---|---|
| Title: | A map showing the area in the vicinity of the wreck of the French man-of-war, Le Chameau a 60 gun ship from France for Quebec, via Louisbourg, lost with all hands the night of August 25, 1725. |
| Artist/Maker: | Jerome MacDonald George Bates |
| Category: | Graphic Documents |
| Material: | paper ink wood glass |
| Accession Number: | CMP 19-8D |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1947-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1978-12-31 |
| Description: | Partial map of Cape Breton showing where le Chameau was wrecked. Includes text taken from the Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections Volume 9 pages 119-120. Initialed GTB. The map is in a plain wooden frame. |
| Narrative: | The map is by George T. Bates (1911-1990). Bates was an accomplished historian and calligrapher. He qualified as a Nova Scotia land surveyor in 1939 and opened his own office in Halifax in 1944. He created about 46 maps and drawings in the 1960s and 1970s depicting a number of subjects. |
| History of Use: | The donor received the print from his sister who asked him to donate it to the Chestico Museum. She got the print in Staten Island, New York 40 years ago. |
| Length: | 40 cm |
| Width: | 42.5 cm |
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| Institution City: | Chestico |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |