Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment

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As the primary inland surveyor for the Hudson’s Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall a few of the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to supply ten maps, culminating in his magnum opus, a map that used to be the root of all northern geographic knowledge at the moment.

Barbara Mitchell’s biography brings to life the person who taught David Thompson and Peter Fidler easy methods to survey. In her seek for Turnor’s story, Mitchell discovers her own Cree-Orkney ancestry and that of thousands of others who’re descendents of Turnor and his Cree wife.

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