{"id":1786424,"date":"2018-10-17T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786424"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:58:09","slug":"torontos-cartographic-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/torontos-cartographic-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s Cartographic Birth Certificate?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean-Baptiste Franquelin, Carte pour servir \u00e0 l’\u00e9claircissement du papier terrier de la Nouvelle-France<\/em>, 1678. Map in 8 tiles, 1.09 \u00d7 1.91 metres. gallica.bnf.fr\/Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A 1678 map of New France<\/a> by\u00a0Jean-Baptiste Franquelin<\/a> may be to Toronto what the Waldseem\u00fcller map is to America: a so-called “cartographic birth certificate”\u2014i.e., the first instance of a name to appear on the map. The label “Tarontos Lac” on what is now Lake Simcoe isn’t legible on the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France’s online version<\/a>, but\u00a0when Canadian geographer Rick Laprairie ordered a high-resolution print of the map from BNF, he was surprised to discover it. Laprairie, who notes that three other maps with “Toronto” in the name have come from maps believed to be created later, is writing this up for\u00a0Ontario History<\/em><\/a> magazine, but in the meantime see coverage from CBC News<\/a> and the\u00a0Toronto Star<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 1678 map of New France by\u00a0Jean-Baptiste Franquelin may be to Toronto what the Waldseem\u00fcller map is to America: a so-called “cartographic birth certificate”\u2014i.e., the first instance of a name to appear on the map.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[93,1290,131,830,1289,590],"class_list":["post-1786424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1600s","tag-bnf","tag-canada","tag-new-france","tag-ontario","tag-toronto","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787573,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/first-you-make-the-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786424,"position":0},"title":"First You Make the Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"First You Make the Maps, a Story Map produced for Lapham\u2019s Quarterly by Elizabeth Della Zazzera, surveys maps and mapmaking for sea navigation from the 15th through the 18th centuries. 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