Image: Map of Swan River and Upper Assiniboine River (Peter Fidler 1795)

Description: The following is the author's description of the photograph quoted directly from the photograph's Flickr page. "Peter Fidler was engaged in mapping the country being occupied by Hudson%u2019s Bay Company trading servants, particularly from York Fort. One such map of a smaller segment of Manitoba, with adjoining parts of Saskatchewan, is this map prepared soon after 1795. It shows the most detailed configuration available of Northern Lake Winnipegosis and southern Cedar Lakes with the important isthmus separating the two, and parts of three river systems, Swan, Red Deer and Assiniboine. This region was the scene of the unseemly competition for trade by Company traders from York Fort and from Albany Fort who met in this area in 1795 and established competing posts within a few miles of each other. This was later discontinued as a result of reorganization. Fidler was a member of the founding party from York. This map has several errors, one being an improper indication that the Swan and Red Deer rivers issue from the same source. Moreover the course of the upper Swan river is swung too far to the west. The Red river noted on the map is actually the Assiniboine, and the White-Mud river is the present Whitesand river. (Warkentin and Ruggles. Historical Atlas of Manitoba. map 40, p. 102) ------------------- Map of Swan River and Upper Assiniboine River. Post 1795. Map prepared in black ink by R.I. Ruggles from original manuscript (map G.1/19) in the Archives, Hudson%u2019s Bay Company, London. Manuscript map has no title. Manuscript map in black ink on medium weight drawing paper, with end rollers. Original map likely drawn by Peter Fidler. Manitoba historical atlas  : a selection of facsimile maps, plans, and sketches from 1612 to 1969 / edited with introductions and annotations by John Warkentin and Richard I. Ruggles. Published: Winnipeg : Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba , 1970. (map 40, p. 103) "
Title: Map of Swan River and Upper Assiniboine River (Peter Fidler 1795)
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Author: Peter Fidler via Manitoba Historical Maps
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