Authors and Sources


Authors

French Exploration (Volume I, Plate 36; Concise Plate 6)
RICHARD I. RUGGLES Department of Geography, Queen's University
CONRAD E. HEIDENREICH Department of Geography, York University

Sources

French Exploration, 1603-1751 (Map)
Champlain map, 1632 (Static Map)
Sanson map, 1656 (Static Map)
Coronelli map, 1688 (Static Map)
Delisle map, 1752 (Static Map)
Bellin map, 1755 (Static Map)

  • Allouez, Claude, 1622-89 DCB 1: 57-8
  • Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-72 Cartographer attached to French Marine Office
  • Bonnécamps, Joseph-Pierre de, 1707-90 DCB 4: 76-7
  • Brűlé, Étienne, 1592-1633 DCB 1: 130-3
  • Buache, Philippe, 1700-73 French geographer
  • Cavelier de La Salle, René-Robert, 1643-87 DCB 1: 172-84
  • Champlain, Samuel de, 1570-1635 DCB 1: 186-99
  • Chaussegros de Léry, Gaspard-Joseph, 1682-1756 DCB 3: 116-19
  • Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, 1650-1718 Venetian cartographer
  • Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas, 1688-1768 French astronomer and cartographer working in St Petersburg, Russia
  • Denys de La Ronde, Pierre, 1631-1708 DCB 2: 178-9
  • Franquelin, Jean-Baptiste-Louis, b 1651, d after 1712 DCB 2: 228-30
  • Gaultier de Varennes et de La Verendrye, Pierre, 1685-1749 DCB 3: 246-54
  • Hennepin, Louis, 1626-1705 DCB 2: 277-82
  • Jolliet, Louis, 1645-1700 DCB 1: 392-8
  • Laure, Pierre-Michel, 1688-1738 DCB 2: 357-8
  • Nicollet de Belleborhe, Jean, 1598-1642 DCB 1: 516-18
  • Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-67 Founder of 17th-century French school of cartography

    • note: DCB stands for Dictionary of Canadian Biography

    Cartographic Sources

  • NAC. NMC 17th- and 18th-century maps. As far as possible all surviving primary records of exploration were consulted.

    • Further Readings

  • DCB, vols 1-4
  • Heidenreich, C.E. 'Mapping the Great Lakes: The Period of Exploration, 1603-1700.' Cartographica 17 (1980): 32-64
  • Heidenreich, C.E. 'Mapping the Great Lakes: The Period of Imperial Rivalries.' Cartographica 18(1981): 74-109