Coronelli, Partie Occidentale du Canada (1688). Island cluster in the lake's NE labeled 'Outtaouactz' (the Ottawas), lettered on the shore beside the marks and broken 'Outtao-'/'uactz' across two lines — the hyphen is a line break, not a spelling, and no diacritic is present. No Castor name. Letterforms settled 2026-08-12 on the Gallica copy (ark btv1b8595892b) at full IIIF resolution (10426x7954, region 5800,2950,1100,850); this Commons scan resolves the break but not the middle letters. An earlier version of this note recorded the form as 'Outtaou-uactz', reproducing the line break as a hyphen.
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A monochrome engraved map fills the frame, showing waterways, coastlines, territorial boundaries, settlement labels, and a latitude-longitude grid. Decorative illustrations appear in the margins and around an ornate cartouche in the lower right, with additional map annotations and a scale panel in the upper right.
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Wikimedia Commons scan
2,104 × 1,600 px · JPEG · 3.6 MB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE DU CANADA OU DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE
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Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
Catalogue title: Coronelli Partie Occidentale du Canada (1688). Catalogue date: 1688. The archive record identifies this as a Wikimedia Commons scan and notes an island cluster labeled “Outtaou-uactz” in the northeast portion of the map.
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Provenance
- Held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Collection
- Historical maps — Wikimedia Commons scans
- Named on the record
- Wikimedia Commons scan
- Date
- 1688
- Original
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Vincenzo_Coronelli_Partie_occidentale_du_Canada_1688.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- an article in this archive
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 2,104 × 1,600 px | 3.6 MB | ac4608afe291… |
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Wikimedia Commons scan. “Coronelli Partie Occidentale du Canada, 1688”. 1688. Wikimedia Commons. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/map/coronelli-1688-partie-occidentale/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.
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