French and Spanish Missions in North America

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Dynamic TimeMap of Mission History (Please be patient while it loads)	Video of Mission History from 1550 to 1850 (Note: 3.5 MB may be slow to load)

Historical Maps from the David Rumsey Collection          

Examples
Author: Carver, Jonathan Date: 1781 Short Title: New Map of North America. Publisher: London: C. Dilly	Author: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794 Date: 1771 Short Title: Mexique, Nlle. Mexique, Californie. Publisher: Paris: Lattre & Delalain

Dynamic TimeMap presentation of the Mission data with a variety of historical maps from the Rumsey Collection as backgrounds
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Southwest:
View: Bonne (#5), Burr (#8) and Hutawa (#12) Maps
View: Bowen (#6), Collot (#10), Goodwin (#11) and Laurie (#16) Maps

Northwest:
View: d'Anville (#1, #3), Lisle (#17) and Popple(#21 Sheets 2 and 3)
View: Arrowsmith (#4), Carver (#9), Jefferys (# 15) and Moll (#20) Maps
View: Zatta (#22, #23 & #24)Maps

1) d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, "Canada, Louisiane et Terres Angloises (Northwest section) Map of Canada and Louisiana", 1755. ECAI# 13933

2) d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, "Amerique Septentrionale (Northern section)", 1763. ECAI# 15315

3) d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon, "Canada, Louisiane et Terres Angloises. (Northeast section)", 1755. ECAI# 13934

4) Arrowsmith, John,. "Lower Canada ... and a large portion of the United States", 1844. ECAI# 13657

5) Bonne, Rigobert, "Mexique, Nlle. Mexique, Californie", 1771. ECAI# 15960

6) Bowen, Emanuel, "Louisiana, Fla., Canada", 1747. ECAI# 13508

7) Bradford, Thomas G., "North America", 1838. ECAI# 13227

8) Burr, David H., "Map of the United States of North America", 1839. ECAI# 12529

9) Carver, Jonathan, "New Map of North America', 1781. ECAI# 11827

10) Collot, George Henri Victor; and Tardieu, P.F., "Map of the Missouri; of the higher parts of the Mississippi", 1796. ECAI# 11922

11) Goodwin, F. A., "Map Of California and The Adjacent Country", 1855. ECAI# 11109

12) Hutawa, Julius, "Map Of Mexico & California", 1863. ECAI# 12803

13) Jefferys, Thomas, "The Peninsula and Gulf of Florida or Channel of Bahama with the Bahama Islands", 1775. ECAI# 13693

14) Jefferys, Thomas, "The Western Coast of Louisiana and the Coast of New Leon", 1775. ECAI# 13691

15) Jefferys, Thomas, "An Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence", 1775. ECAI# 14559

16) Laurie, Richard Holmes; Cruchley, G., "Fredonia Or The United States of North America", 1833. ECAI# 11145

17) Lisle, Guillaume de, "Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France", 1708. ECAI# 13823

18) Lisle, Guillaume de, "Louisiane Cours du Mississipi", 1718. ECAI# 13824

19) Moll, Herman. D, "New map of ye north parts of America". 1736. ECAI# 14649

20) Moll, Herman. D, "New Found Land, St. Laurence Bay, the fishing banks, Acadia, and part of New Scotland". 1736. ECAI# 14650

21) Popple, Henry, "A Map of the British Empire in America", (Sheets 1,2,3), 1733. ECAI# 11803, 11804, 11805

22) Zatta, Antonio; Mitchell, John; and Raynal, G.T., "La Parte Occidentale della Nuova Francia o Canada", 1778. ECAI# 11587

23) Zatta, Antonio; Mitchell, John; and Raynal, G.T., "Le Isole di Terra Nuova e Capo Breton Di Nuova Projezione", 1778. ECAI# 11597

24) Zatta, Antonio; Mitchell, John; and Raynal, G.T., "La Baja D'Hudson Terra di Labrador e Groenlandia", 1778. ECAI# 11598

For further information on the David Rumsey Collection, see: DavidRumsey.com

Maps Referenced in "Historical Introduction to North American Missions"

Hernando de Soto Expedition: De Soto's trail, courtesy of David G. Anderson, PhD dissertation. From: Beneath These Waters Web Site: http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/beneathweb/btw-index.htm

Coronado's 1540-42 Expedition: The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542 (135K) U.S. National Park Service, 1974. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

Routes of Cabeza De Vaca, deSoto, Coronado and Moscosco: Routes of Cabeza De Vaca, Coronado, and De Soto and Moscosco (860K)
From Atlas of Texas. Published by The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Business Research, 1976. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_texas.html

California including Baja California Missions: Eusebio Francisco Kino. Passage by land to California. Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino, a Jesuit; Between the Years 1698 & 1701: Containing Likewise the New Missions of the Jesuits. E. Bowen Sc., London, 1762. From: University of Arizona, Collection of Maps of the Pimería: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/set/pimeria/eighth/1701a_mrsid.html

California Missions: Location of California Missions from the Dynamic TimeMap of Mission History. Further information including names of the Missions, related Missionaries, Indian tribes and commodities produced are available through the dynamic map: http://ecai.org/na-missions/maps/Mission_Java_Map.htm

Exploration and Settlement Before 1675: From The National Atlas of the United States of America (Arch C. Gerlach, editor). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1970. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

 
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