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William C. Wonders Map Collection, University of Alberta Library. Curation by Wyman Laliberté (he/him) (settler on Treaty 6 land).
WCW Map Collection on Internet Archive
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![[portion] of Nelson River, exploratory survey ; Saskatchewan River, exploratory survey. Published by: Dominion Lands Office, Department of the Interior; Klotz, Otto J. Year 1885](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreih46www6pwhd6jys3we4notp7g5pmlggch6b7ob3wbrcbf4ab2pui@jpeg)
![Chieko, Shiomi [and George Maciunas], spatial poem no. 2[:] a fluxatlas[:] THIS IS THE RECORD OF VARIOUS DIRECTIONS TO WHICH PEOPLE WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY MOVING OR FACING AROUND 10PM ( GREENWICH TIME ) OCTOBER 15TH 1965. [NP:] Fluxus, 1966/reprinted 1992.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreidk2rhvtyff6fy2w67prhuuqvkiidblmoz6ja3haext34cam6zx64@jpeg)
![[Thumbnail] North America, British Possessions. Published by V. H. Nelson, London. [1826]
On Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/bp_6506/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreifpsmps6rwe5ohspb3uvhtxh5hgkrashva4qbkzyf6lpsu374qnxq@jpeg)
![[portion] North America, British Possessions. Published by V. H. Nelson, London. [1826]
Showing Edmonton House, both branches of the Saskatchewan River that empties in Lake Winnipeg.
On Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/bp_6506/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreicgw5e547hi4bspfrzgtfxk4xys4i3vjhpbcp5jrtsurvbqs2f4fy@jpeg)
![[portion] of Origins of Naming in Edmonton (City of Edmonton Archives) https://tinyurl.com/2p9n3uje
Before it was Edmonton
This place had names long before Europeans and other settlers arrived. People have lived in this area for thousands of years. The Cree called the area Beaver Hills (Amiskwaciy). The North Saskatchewan River was called Omaka-ty by the Blackfoot meaning Big River, and French maps from the 1790s called it Rivière Bourbon after the French royal family. We now call it the North Saskatchewan, based on the Cree word kis-is-ska-tche-wan meaning “swift current”. It was first documented as the Saskatchiwine River in 1793 by Alexander Mackenzie, and was an early example of how some names we use today are the result of misinterpretations or misunderstandings of Indigenous words. Other examples of this include Blackmud Creek (first noted in 1882) , which is a translation of the creek’s original Cree name kaskitewâw asiskîy, and Kinokamau Lake (first noted in 1895), which takes its name from the Cree word kinokamâw, meaning “long lake”.
Naming Edmonton 1795
Place names are a reflection of colonialism, and for evidence you need look no further than the name of this city. The name Edmonton was first given to Fort Edmonton, a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post on the North Saskatchewan River, in 1795. It was named after Edmonton, England, the birthplace of Sir James Winter Lake, who was at the meeting of the governors of the HBC when the fort was established. The fort was moved a number of times until finally, in 1830, it was built on the banks of the river where the south lawn of the Legislature sits today.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreicur2gez4lvoriu7y2rpjlnxafzbdumxclzwskkjr367u3rtz2s7u@jpeg)
China seizes 60,000 maps over 'mislabelled' Taiwan
China seizes 60,000 maps over 'mislabelled' Taiwan
The maps also omitted "important islands", the source of competing claims between Beijing and its neighbours.
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![“What I’ve concluded is that the only people that are going to save [map libraries] are students, and getting students excited and engaged about it and saying ‘Oh, we want to go back into the map library. We want to look at these things. We want to do stuff.’ That is the only way that I think people will then listen for preserving these spaces more, because otherwise it would just become some sort of multifunction teaching space. And the maps will then get wither disposed of, or put into deep storage somewhere.” James Cheshire](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreiejs3lxoduutrrz6743o4cxi7y2tofmbikafetk2czj77ky5eurji@jpeg)
![[cover of] The Library of Lost Maps An Archive of a World In Progress. By James Cheshire. To be published November 4th, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreic4fjxcmuiqctieqnpiixevdxdnhxlds2nqgpxqtiyln323q2km2u@jpeg)
![A picture of the "Plan showing survey of old trail being part of old trail from Saddle Lake to Lac la Biche" by A.P.C. Belyea. Surveyed in 1912"
[Link] https://archive.org/details/WCWdb_34702
It had to be laid out across two tables and doubled up book trucks to feed it through the scanner.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreiec343zdjyqytlqbq6p5hozwfzl7r6vbuwnxvoyhqqhjjidftflbm@jpeg)
![[portion] of "Plan showing survey of old trail being part of old trail from Saddle Lake to Lac la Biche" by A.P.C. Belyea. Surveyed in 1912"
Shows the Lac la Biche area and title of the map, including the townships covered.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreibabefsqyx54cvv57lqaq4aeql7yth6lgzau3x52ivepyladokhgm@jpeg)