Each of the maps featured in this book was showcased in the exhibition
"Canada before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping," which took
place in several locations, both in Canada and abroad, in Fall of 2017.
The authors provide a scholarly study highlighting the importance and
unique features of each of these jewels of cartographic history, with
particular attention paid to how they demonstrate the development of
Canadian identity at the same time that they reveal Indigenous knowledge
of the lands now known as Canada.