{"id":4014,"date":"2017-03-08T18:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:14:37","slug":"the-omitted-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/the-omitted-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The Omitted Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada is apparently suffering from an outbreak of maps that omit Prince Edward Island<\/a>, and islanders are upset about it: culprits include a map at Vancouver’s airport, and a t-shirt sold by Hudson’s Bay Company. To be sure, in neither case are the maps meant for navigation, but\u00a0this is\u00a0a country\u00a0where regional representation is a touchy subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada is apparently suffering from an outbreak of maps that omit Prince Edward Island, and islanders are upset about it: culprits include a map at Vancouver’s airport, and a t-shirt sold by Hudson’s Bay Company.… 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":[110],"tags":[131,785],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","tag-canada","tag-pei","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785741,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/06\/missing-the-island-an-exhibition-of-maps-without-pei\/","url_meta":{"origin":4014,"position":0},"title":"Missing the Island: An Exhibition of Maps without PEI","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 June 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Prince Edward Island is to maps of Canada what New Zealand is to world maps: it's left off them an awful lot, and the residents are sore about it. 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It imagines what would happen if the U.S. were organized like Canada, with the same population imbalances: Ontario, for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Unusual Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Unusual Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/unusual-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/us-of-canada-reddit-1024x456.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786342,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/essays-on-literary-maps-treasure-island-moominland-and-the-marauders-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":4014,"position":2},"title":"Essays on Literary Maps: Treasure Island, Moominland and the Marauder’s Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 October 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Another excerpt from the forthcoming book The Writer's Map, this time in the Guardian, in which three authors talk about their favourite literary maps: Robert Macfarlane on the map in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Frances Hardinge on the map of Tove Jansson's Moominland, and Miraphora Mina on the Harry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-writers-map-209x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3281,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/a-roundup-of-canadian-map-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":4014,"position":3},"title":"A Roundup of Canadian Map News","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Various items about maps and map history from here in Canada: Last month former Canadian diplomat Dan Livermore donated his small collection of 17th- and 18th-century maps to the Brock University Library's\u00a0Special Collections and Archives, which will digitize the maps. 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