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The map folds out of a yellow cardstock booklet that features the Guelph coat of arms and motto in blue and red ink. The map itself is printed in blue, black and red ink. It depicts the coat of arms top left, the Speed and Eramosa Rivers, railways, and streets, with major thoroughfares in red. At the bottom of the map is a list of points of interest (unlabelled) that includes the Guelph General Hospital, library, and Priory Park. Below this is a list of golf courses, and another of shopping plazas. There is a street index at bottom right and a list of revised editions of the map at bottom left.
The back of the booklet reads "For Further Information Consult Guelph Chamber of Commerce," with the logo and contact information all printed in blue.
Notes
Mapmaking is an ancient, global, and subjective practice. Maps can help us to understand land relationships over time. It is important to understand why a specific map was made, whose interests it reflected, and how it was intended to be used. These understandings are shaped by knowledge of the land from diverse perspectives, past, present, and future.
Historical Context:
Early Indigenous navigational maps of the place we now call Canada were drawn on impermanent materials, accompanied by verbal descriptions and committed to memory. Landmarks were accentuated to aid travellers and scale was often measured by time (such as, a day's journey).
In about 1502, European mapmakers depicted the east coast of Newfoundland as an island in the North Atlantic. World maps skewed the size and shape of continents and used colour to symbolize colonial powers. The first surveyors measured and marked plots of land - taken, traded, granted, or sold - often naming the landholders on the map.
Today, the science and practice of mapmaking documents the topography of the landscape in fine detail, through aerial photography, sensors, satellites, and global positioning/information systems (GPS/GIS).
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