1904 Railway Map of Ontario and Quebec
Before highways, the rail company you lived nearest determined where your grain, lumber and mail went. Drawn from the 1st Edition (1906) Atlas of Canada published by Natural Resources Canada, this historical map makes that economic geography visible in a way no modern map does.
Rail lines are printed in black, while the territory tributary to each system is washed in colour. An area shown in green, for example, sits closer to a station on the Intercolonial Railway than to a station on any competing line. The same logic is applied across the other systems, so the sheet reads as a map of commercial reach rather than simple track alignment.
A statistical table accompanies the map with mileage, rolling stock, receipts, cost of construction and cost of maintenance for 1903–04, some mileage figures current to 1905, plus Canadian totals as of June 30, 1904. Lines crossing into the United States are shown, though they neither owned nor controlled the Canadian railways.
Map Shop prints it on paper or laminated, and offers mounting to foam core, black or walnut rails, and framing for study walls, railway museums and heritage society offices.

