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Title

[Port Shediak and Cocagne, New Brunswick] [cartographic material] 

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Item (linked) part of

Views and miscellaneous sheets from broken atlases [cartographic material] (R11981-16-X-E)

Date(s)

19 June 1776

Place of creation

England

Publisher

Published according to Act of Parliament by J. F. W. Des Barres, Esqr.

Extent

1 map : b. & w. 70 x 49 cm on sheet 77 x 58 cm.

Conditions of access

Cartographic material
90: Open
Original can be viewed in the presence o
f an early cartographic archivist. Microfiche version is open.
Cartographic material
Microfiche NMC28165
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #658c
Archival reference no.
R11981-677-X-E
Other accession no.
80101/245 CA
Library of Congress class no.
G1107.C6P5 D47 1784 v. 2 pt. 6 #77 1776 - copy 3 - H2

Terms of use

Credit Library and Archives Canada.
Copyright expired.

Creator / Provenance

Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824.

Biography / Administrative history

Surveyor and Lieutenant Governor.

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (originally Joseph-Frédéric Vallet DesBarres) (1721-1824) was born in November 1721, either in Basel, Switzerland, or in Paris. He was a topographical artists, military engineer, surveyor and map-maker. He was the eldest child of Joseph-Léonard Vallet Des Barres, a Huguenot from the Montbéliard region of France, and Anne-Catherine Cuvier. He was educated in Basel and then at the Royal Military College, Woolwich, England. He entered the British army and served in america during Seven Years' War, taking part in actions at Ticonderoga, Louisbourg and Quebec campaigns, DesBarres undertook surveys of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1763-1773, and between 1774 and 1784 published his fine collection of charts as the Atlantic Neptune published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, in 4 volumes.

He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton in 1784 and removed from office in 1787. Later, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, 1804-1812. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 27 October 1824, just one month short of 103.

Additional information

Bathymetry indicated by soundings; relief shown by hachures and some shading.

Prime meridian: Greenwich.

Lacks title, descriptive text and title block. Title from later states.

From:The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the royal navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F. W. Des Barres, under the direction of the right hon'ble, the Lords Commisioners of the admirality. London 1774-1781.

Custodial history
Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Related materials
For other copies of this chart see: G1107.C6P5 D47 1784 v. 2 pt. 6 #77 1776 (AMICUS No. 32664213)

Cartographic math data
Scale [ca. 1:29 000] (W 64°23'--W 64°12'/N 46°24'--N 46°14')

Citation / reference note
Layng, Theodore E. "Desbarres Collection, Map Division, Public Archives of Canada", p. 57, #77
Stevens, henry Newton "Collection of the Atlantic Neptune", v. 1 # 72b, v.2, p. 159
Philips, Entry 1202, v.2, no 15

Subject heading

1. New Brunswick - Cocagne Harbour - Nautical charts - Early works, 1751-1800 .
2. New Brunswick - Shediac Harbour - Nautical charts - Early works, 1751-1800.
3. New Brunswick - Coastal waters - Nautical charts - Early works, 1751-1800 .

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

4386194