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Plan du Fort du Sault de St. Louis et du village des sauvages Iroquois

Plan of fort and mission at Kahnawake (previously known as Caughnagawa), south of Montréal on the Saint Lawrence River at Lake St. Louis. Detached from a contemporary manuscript copy of French military engineer Louis Franquet's Voyage du Canada, 1752 (Ayer MS 299 no. 2). This copy lacks all other maps referred to within the text. Text on p. 105-108 refers to letters A-G on map. Cartouche includes notes about incomplete fortification and the residence of the Desauniers family of merchants.

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Creator

Franquet, Louis, 1697-1768

Date

1752

Scale

Scale not given

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

Subjects
  • Jesuits--Missions--Québec--Kahnawake--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Fortification--Québec--Fort St. Louis (Kahnawake)--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Iroquois Indians--Missions--Québec--Kahnawake--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • Fort St. Louis (Kahnawake, Québec)--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Kahnawake (Québec)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Canada
  • Caughnawaga
  • North and Central America
  • Quebec
Extent

1 ms. map : hand col. ; on sheet 366 x 674 mm.

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Notes
  • Pen-and-ink and wash (brown, red, green).
  • Original manuscript text and map held by the Bibliothèque de l'Inspection du Génie in Paris, Ms. fo. 210e., no. 2. Published without maps as "Voyages et mémoires sur le Canada par Franquet" in Institut Canadien de Québec Annuaire 13 (1889; reprint 1974). Original map reproduced in Vachon, André. Taking root: Canada from 1700-1760 ([Ottawa]: Public Archives of Canada, 1985) p. 297.
  • Another variant copy of the map forms part of a collection of holographs, typescripts and printed copy in: Caughnawaga. S.l.: s.n., 199-?

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