Great Lakes Essential Resources: Historical Maps & Charts
Top Resources for Historical Maps & Charts of the Great Lakes
Selected List of Historical Maps Showing All Great Lakes
Partie Occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France ou sont les Nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et Plusieurs autres Peuples; avec la Louisiane Nouvellement Decouverte..., 1688. (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
La Louisiana, parte settentrionalle, scoperta sotto la protettione di Luigi XIV, Ré di Francia..., 1697. (Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at Boston Public Library)
A New and Accurate Map of the English Empire in North America: Representing their Rightful Claim as confirmed by Charters ...,1755. (Osher Map Library)
Canada ou Nouvelle France (die Landtschafft Canada oder dass Neue Franckreich),1782. (Osher Map Library)
- Shows all five Great Lakes. Note French names.
- Note alternate names for Lake Erie (Okswego) and Lake Ontario (Catarakui)
The Theatre of War in North America, with the Roads and A Table of the Distances,1776. (Osher Map Library)
- Accompanying text lists and details British colonies, including population.
Carte Nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise contenant tout ce que les Anglois possedent sur le continent de l'Amerique Septentrionale Savoir le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse ou Acadie, les treize Provinces unies qui sont: les quatres Colonies de la Nouvelle Anglet, ca. 02/1777 (Osher Map Library)
- Shows all five Great Lakes. Note French names.,
Historical Maps & Charts of Lake Superior
North America, Sheet IV : Lake Superior, 1832. (University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.)
Township map of Lake Superior region and Upper Mississippi: Compiled from government surveys, 1872. (University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.)
Historical Maps & Charts of Lake Michigan
Map exhibiting the country between Lakes Michigan and Erie and the contested boundary lines, 1843. (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Historical Maps & Charts of Lake Huron
- Shows “Part of Huron Lake”, “Errie Lake” and “Frontegnac Lake”... notice other borders and place names
A Map Exhibiting the Frontiers of Canada and the United States; intended to illustrate the Operations of the British & American Armies, 1813. (Osher Map Library)
Lake Hurom, Surveyed by Captn. H.W. Bayfield, R.N., 1822. (American Geographical Society Library)
Historical Maps & Charts of Lake Erie
- Shows “Part of Huron Lake”, “Errie Lake” and “Frontegnac Lake”.
A Map Exhibiting the Frontiers of Canada and the United States; intended to illustrate the Operations of the British & American Armies, 1813. (Osher Map Library)
View of the Country round the Falls of Niagara,1815. (Osher Map Library)
A Chart of Lake Erie ... Buffalo, A. Burke, 1848. (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Map exhibiting the country between Lakes Michigan and Erie and the contested boundary lines, 1843. (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Map of the Morris's purchase of West Genesee in the state of New York: part of the lakes Erie and Ontario, the Straights of Niagara, 1800. (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Historical Maps & Charts of Lake Ontario
- Shows “Part of Huron Lake”, “Errie Lake” and “Frontegnac Lake”.
A New and Accurate Map of New Jersey, Pensilvania, New York and New England, with the adjacent Countries. Drawn from Surveys, assisted by the most approved Modern Maps & Charts, and Regulated by Astronomical Observations,1747. (Osher Map Library)
- Shows “Part of Ontario Lake”
Map of the Morris's purchase of West Genesee in the state of New York: part of the lakes Erie and ontario, the Straights of Niagara, 1800. (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
A Map Exhibiting the Frontiers of Canada and the United States; intended to illustrate the Operations of the British & American Armies, 1813. (Osher Map Library)
View of the Country round the Falls of Niagara,1815. (Osher Map Library)
Chart of Lake Ontario, 1864. (Brock University)