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Very good. Slight wear on old fold lines, with reinforcement at some fold intersections. Size 32.75 x 28.25 Inches. A scarce and historically significant 1873 map of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, prepared by Frederic Newton Gisborne and Albert J. Hill. Aside from mapping the island, a feat in itself, it is significant for reflecting the development of fossil fuel industries and railways there. A Closer Look The map displays the entirety of Cape Breton Island, along with a portion of mainland Nova Scotia. The locations of coal mines are shaded in dark grey, while the presence of other natural resources (petroleum, gold, plaster, marble) is indicated as noted in the legend at bottom-right. Railways in operation and proposed are traced throughout. Primarily intended to serve mines, the shorter of these would have been narrow-gauge lines. Insets map the harbors of Sydney and Louisburg, while a general chart maps the coast of the northeastern United States and Canada, and a table of distances at bottom-left logs the distance between Sydney and points in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. On the water, soundings, anchorages, lighthouses, telegraph lines, shipping lines, and shoals are all recorded. A mine just east of Sydney is named Gisborne, after one of the makers of this map, an accomplished telegraph and mining entrepreneur. However, despite ample coal deposits, the mine and others like it were hurt by the economic depression of the 1870s. King Coal The history of Cape Breton Island has been closely tied to the coal industry and to a lesser extent, petroleum. The island's native Mi'kmaq inhabitants utilized coal, so abundant that it was easily found at the surface, as fuel, as did early French settlers, who established a fort and settlement at Louisburg in the early 18th century. After the British gained control of the island in 1763 (at the conclusion of the Seven Years' War), coal mining expanded significantly. The island took on economic and strategic significance, leading to its being the site of two battles during the American Revolution. In addition to the Mi'kmaq and French, a variety of peoples have settled on the island and worked in its underground mines (collieries), including Acadia refugees, Loyalists to the British Crown following the American Revolution, and Scottish Highlanders. Soon after this map's production, at the turn of the 20th century, coal production peaked on the island, but this period also saw bitter labor disputes. Over the course of the 20th century, mining operations decreased, with the last coal mine at Pt. Aconi, north of Sydney, closing in 2001. Publication History and Census This map was prepared by civil engineers Frederic Newton Gisborne and Albert J. Hill and printed by George Desbarats in Montreal in 1873. Maps of Cape Breton Island are notoriously hard to find, and the present map is no exception, only being noted among the holdings of the Bibliothèque de Genève and the Musée de l'Amérique Francophone (managed by the Musée de la Civilisation). References: OCLC 1040328125. Musée de la civilisation SME-Fonds Séminaire de Québec / SME15-La collection de cartes et plans / S-29.