Atlases & Maps

Shows the distribution of 50,485 people who identified themselves as Inuit in the 2006 Census. Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and text.

Shows the distribution of 50,485 people who identified themselves as Inuit in the 2006 Census. Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and text.

Shows population by Census Subdivision. Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and accompanying text.

Displays eleven sites and text explains their significance. Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and accompanying text.

Shows population by Census Subdivision and locations of reserves. Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and accompanying text.

Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and accompanying text.

Shows provincial and territorial boundaries by year, respective years for acquisition of present-day borders, and boundaries. Scroll down to choose options for downloading map and accompanying text.

Displays two condensed maps showing population and attempts to represent ethnic and linguistic situation as it existed at time of contact. Data from Atlas of Canada, 3rd edition (1957), issue 052.

Shows the distribution of the Aboriginal population (including Indians, Metis and Inuit) in comparison to the location of forests. Data from Atlas of Canada, 6th edition. Scroll down to choose download option.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited reserves (based on 1980 data), settlements and other communities by size. Base map reflects 1973 data.

Shows size of communities.

Each route marked by a red line, giving the name of the explorer or company, and when that person travelled along the route. Also provides dates of the founding principal forts and trading posts.

3rd edition

Website contains information on Aboriginal population distribution and socio-economic characteristics in six western Canadian cities.

Book review of: Australians: A Historical Atlas edited by J.C.R. Camm and John McQuilton. Review located by scrolling to page 157.

Shows locations and gives contact information. Sources: Ministère des Affaires autochtones et du développement du Nord canadien,Registre des Indiens, 31 décembre 2010.Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec, Registres des bénéficiaires cris, inuits et naskapis de la Convention de la Baie-James et du Nord québécois et de la Convention du Nord-Est québécois, 1er avril 2011.

Book reviews of: Alaska Native Medical Centre: A History 1953-1983 by Robert Fortuine. Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood, Peter Bjerregaard. Healing Histories: Stories From Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees.

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Discussion on the development of the Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development; recent Federal measures including the Northern Strategy; a series of agreements between government and Aboriginal communities, including self-government and Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements; and examines how they can play a central role in strengthening the northern economy.

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Map shows North American Indian, Métis, Inuit or people who indicated they were Registered or Treaty Indians or members of a Band or First Nation.

Book review of Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History by Graeme Wynn.

Contains regional insets that show the boundaries and names of all cities, towns, villages, etc., and reserves and settlements.

Shows distribution of Indian and Inuit communities, Indian reserve, cultural areas, name, linguistics family (eleven major families representing 51 languages). Also shows linguistic families from the 16th to 18th centuries. inset map for southwestern British Columbia.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited Indian reserves, and other communities (distinct centres of population) by size.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited Indian reserves, and settlements situated on Crown lands by size.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited Indian reserves, settlements situated on Crown lands, and other communities (distinct centres of population) by size.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited Indian reserves, settlements situated on Crown lands, and other communities (distinct centres of population) by size.

Shows inhabited and uninhabited Indian Reserves, other Indian lands, settlements situated on Crown lands, and other communities (distinct centres of population) by size.

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Displays Indigenous population of Canada and the northern United States. Shows groups by size, name, linguistic family and extent of areas known by Europeans directly, through Aboriginal accounts, and unknown. Also shows locations of French and English agricultural settlements.

Distribution of the Indigenous population of Canada and northern United States with groups shown by size, name and linguistic family. Also shows approximate extent of areas unknown, imperfectly known and well known to census takers.

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Shows 1885 boundaries, reserves and settlements with routes taken by Batoche and Battleford Column, Alberta Field Force, Northwest Mounted Police and resistance forces. Lists names of individuals involved in both sides of the conflict.

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Brief overview of history of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation located on Bruce Peninsula in Ontario. Website includes timeline, map, and historic photos with accompanying text.

Looks at preserving history orally and with the written word.

Explores and correlates the three roles of government mapping, academic mapping and tribal mapping.

Comments on the large number of individual government reports that contain useful maps depicting Native American lands. The article also points out that because no one has sorted, classified, or indexed the many maps that come before the Indian Claims Commission and the Federal Claims Court (formerly the Court of Claims), treaty translation and wording are made more difficult.

This interactive Google Earth project is a guided tour that introduces the user to over 80 Indigenous languages from around the globe. At each point on the map the user can view a photo and bio of an Indigenous language speaker from that region and listen to clips of them speaking their language.

Book review of Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood and Peter Bjerregaard.