1906 Canada Forests Map
Before aerial photography and satellite imagery, mapping a forest meant sending surveyors into it. Drawn for the 1st Edition of the Atlas of Canada by Natural Resources Canada, this map uses tints of green laid across the Dominion to show where timber still stood at the turn of the century.
The sheet separates the Southern forest, the Northern forest, and the Cordilleran forest of the western mountains, and flags the areas already generally cleared of timber. Lighter tints mark the thinner reaches of the Northern forest, along with mixed prairie and woodland, open Prairie, and the National Parks and Forest Reserves of the Dominion. Province by province, marginal lists name the principal trees, with notes where a species is confined to a small portion of a province. Major cities, rivers, lakes, and some railway systems provide geographic anchoring.
Map Shop offers it in the following formats:
- Paper
- Laminated
- Mounted to foam core
- Framed in black or walnut molding

