{"id":1049,"date":"2017-10-02T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2017-10-02T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T23:59:38","slug":"1857-vignette-of-bcs-south-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davehuer.com\/cartoproblematica\/1857-vignette-of-bcs-south-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"1857 Vignette of BC’s South Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/atlasofunitedsta00roge<\/a><\/p>\n

(1857) The cartographer and printer producing a fine, delicately tinted map.<\/strong> This close-up showing the border of BC and Washington. The border had not been fixed – Captain Richards’ navy survey party were just starting work alongside US Commissioners – but Mr. Rogers seems to have taken the US view. <\/p>\n

It is a fascinating map – suggesting that the American side was already being surveyed, leaving British North America a vast expanse, unremarked-able from seemingly as-yet-not surveyed.<\/p>\n

It brings to mind all sorts of questions about surveying and what survey means. And the pretensions that surveying can bring – the worldviews of surveyor and surveyee. Just what are we measuring, and why?<\/p>\n

A fact not lost to First Nations in Eastern Canada – who shortly after contact carefully started disguising routes and pathways through what appeared to be impenetrable wilderness. The prudent among Anglo-Europeans dared not test this cultural boundary. They were the interlopers. They, the usurpers. They, the little children who could die, alone and lost among the ancient forests.<\/p>\n

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Does a land exist until it has been surveyed?<\/p>\n

How will the ideology of surveying inform our species’ expansion to the cosmos<\/a>?<\/p>\n

And other species’ expansion likewise?<\/p>\n

Will we be the ones getting colonized?<\/p>\n

Have we already been surveyed?<\/p>\n

Atlas of the United States of North America, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Jamaica<\/strong> : on a uniform scale from the most recent state documents, marine surveys, and unpublished materials with plans of the principal cities and sea-ports, and an introductory essay on the physical geography, products, and resources of North America, by Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866; Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871; Murray, John, 1808-1892. Publication date 1857<\/p>\n

Collection – normanbleventhalmapcenter; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
\nDigitizing sponsor – Boston Public Library
\nContributor – Boston Public Library
\nLanguage – English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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