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Library and Archives Canada has posted a four-part series on early automobile maps to their Facebook page (they don\u2019t have a blog, just social media accounts), featuring examples from their collection: Nova Scotia<\/a>, Montreal<\/a>, Banff National Park<\/a>, Vancouver<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Library and Archives Canada has posted a four-part series on early automobile maps to their Facebook page (they don\u2019t have a blog, just social media accounts), featuring examples from their collection: Nova Scotia, Montreal, Banff… 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":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-08-28T14:46:06+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lxhrvlp7ej2p","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lxhrvlp7ej2p\",\"cid\":\"bafyreih33pt4ygxaca5lfefy77tiolghq6q77fd6ugmrzhfkn35a3imecu\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreihokbaxr3bc5u3gx7jc3ppphlmehgsjl6fmogsacmbd3k4d3p2xfe\",\"rev\":\"3lxhrvlpk4b2p\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[470],"tags":[131,48,304],"class_list":["post-1844900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-travel","tag-canada","tag-libraries","tag-road-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789595,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/seeger-map-company-to-close\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844900,"position":0},"title":"Seeger Map Company to Close","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Angie Cope reports that the Seeger Map Company, the Wisconsin-based publisher of hundreds of city, county and state maps, many for the American Automobile Association, since the 1970s, will be closing down at the end of the year. \u201cAt the height of the company\u2019s success in the mid-1990s, they employed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Industry"","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789853,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/apple-maps-updates-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844900,"position":1},"title":"Apple Maps Updates Canada","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 December 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple\u2019s new maps, first announced in 2018, have finally come to Canada: they went live country-wide on 10 December. 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