Natural Resources Canada

The plate contains four maps showing the mean river freeze-over date, the mean lake freeze-over date, the mean river ice-free date and the mean lake ice free date. The four maps depict, in a general way, the average dates on which freshwater bodies in Canada become completely ice-covered in the...

Contained within the 1st Edition (1906) of the Atlas of Canada is a plate that shows two maps. The first map that shows origins of the people in Maritime provinces and Eastern Quebec, circa 1901. The second map that shows origins of the people in Quebec and Ontario, circa 1901.A varying number of...

The plate contains four maps showing the Hardness of Surface Water, Total Dissolved Solids of Surface Waters, Turbidity of Surface Waters and the Chemical Quality of Typical Surface Waters of Canada. These water quality maps were based on data collected from 1970 and 1971 at national river...

"The Glacier Atlas of Canada is a collection of maps produced as part of the Canadian Glacier Inventory Project. This project was initiated as part of Canada's contribution to the International Hydrological Decade (1965 to 1974). Although publication of this map series was suspended in the...

"The Glacier Atlas of Canada is a collection of maps produced as part of the Canadian Glacier Inventory Project. This project was initiated as part of Canada's contribution to the International Hydrological Decade (1965 to 1974). Although publication of this map series was suspended in the...

The map title is Cowichan Valley. Tactile map scale. 1.8 centimetres = 10 kilometres North arrow. Region includes Nanaimo, Cowichan Lake, Duncan, Sydney. Trans-Canada Highway, route 1 and route 18. Airport in Nanaimo. Bus Terminals. Bodies of water, Strait of Georgia. Tactile maps are designed...

"The Glacier Atlas of Canada is a collection of maps produced as part of the Canadian Glacier Inventory Project. This project was initiated as part of Canada's contribution to the International Hydrological Decade (1965 to 1974). Although publication of this map series was suspended in the...

The map title is Fredericton. Tactile map scale. 2 centimetres = 3 kilometres North arrow pointing to the north. Fredericton and surrounding area. The Saint John River is shown with a wavy symbol to indicate water. Main roads, routes 2, 7, 8 and 10. A circle with a dot in the middle to indicate a...

The map title is Halifax. Tactile map scale. 2 centimetres = 3 kilometres North arrow pointing to the north. Halifax and surrounding area. Main roads, routes 101, 118, 102, 7, and 103. Airport. Bus station. Train terminal. Halifax Harbour. Tactile maps are designed with Braille, large text, and...

"The Glacier Atlas of Canada is a collection of maps produced as part of the Canadian Glacier Inventory Project. This project was initiated as part of Canada's contribution to the International Hydrological Decade (1965 to 1974). Although publication of this map series was suspended in the...

"The Glacier Atlas of Canada is a collection of maps produced as part of the Canadian Glacier Inventory Project. This project was initiated as part of Canada's contribution to the International Hydrological Decade (1965 to 1974). Although publication of this map series was suspended in the...

The map title is Fredericton. Tactile map scale. 2.0 centimetres = 100 metres North arrow pointing to the north. Fredericton downtown detail is coded with type and Braille expanded in the PDF file. Main streets are coded with type and Braille expanded in the PDF file. Secondary streets are not...

The map shows the location of glaciers and ice caps and also indicates the rivers and the lakes, which are fed by a glacier (or an ice cap) meltwater. The purpose of this plate is to identify those streams which are fed by glacier meltwaters. Because of the scale of the map, many minor glaciers...

The map title is Forest Types. Map scale. North arrow pointing to the north. Map projection is Hammer-Aitoff. Border of Canada. Great Lakes Border for each theme category within Canada. Neat line around the map. Each theme category is identified by a number that corresponds to the legend. Legend...

Precipitation is derived from water vapour in the air, and it includes all forms of moisture falling on the earth's surface. Condensed water vapour accumulates in clouds, and precipitation occurs when the constituent ice crystals or water droplets grow too large to resist gravitational attraction...

The map title is Newfoundland and Labrador. Tactile map scale. 3.2 centimetres = 200 kilometres North arrow pointing to the top of the page. Borders of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, shown as solid lines. The Labrador Sea shown with a wavy symbol to indicate water. A circle and the...

The map title is Montréal. Tactile map scale. 1.6 centimetres = 5 kilometres North arrow pointing to the north. Montréal and surrounding area. Montréal is located on Île de Montréal. The river to the north, Rivière des Prairies, and to the south, the St. Lawrence River, and are shown with a wavy...

The map title is Physiographic Regions. Map scale. North arrow pointing to the north. Map projection is Hammer-Aitoff. Border of Canada. Great Lakes Border for each theme category within Canada. Neat line around the map. Each theme category is identified by a number that corresponds to the...

The map shows the location of the snow course stations and the agencies that operate them. Most Canadian snow courses are operated by the federal Department of Fisheries and the Environment and the provincial government departments concerned with water resources. Though the principles of snow...

The map title is Vancouver-Stanley. Tactile map scale. 2.0 centimetres = 100 metres North arrow pointing to the north. The Stanley Park area, immediately northwest of downtown, is bordered on the east by Burrard Inlet and on the south by Coal Harbour. A wavy symbol indicates water. The points of...