Includes Interactive Maps, Toporama – Mapping Tool, Reference Maps, Map Archives, Wall Maps, and Selected Thematic Maps.

The Historical Atlas of Canada project published three
volumes which explored major themes and episodes in the history of Canada using maps, text and graphics. Now, the Online Learning Project makes many of the maps and much of the research data created for the Atlas available online. Interactive mapping lets one actively explore the data and themes presented.

On June 21, 1899, on a point of land just south of present-day Grouard, Alberta, six leaders of the First Nations of Lesser Slave Lake signed a government-prepared document known as Treaty #8. All future land use and development in northern Alberta flowed from this event.

A growing collection that challenges relationships with the land, people, and state. It’s based on the premise that cartography is not objective. The orientation of a map, its projection, the presence of political borders, features excluded, and the language used to label a map are all subject to bias. Because decolonization is a process of unlearning and rediscovering, the atlas uses Indigenous toponymy (place names).