LONDON – A rare map of early Canada drawn by French explorer Samuel de Champlain has sold at auction for three times its estimated price. Depicting the northeast stretch of the continent ...

The Geographic Map of New France, drawn up in 1612 by Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec City, showed Europeans a new continent of endless forests flanking a mighty river leading to an ...

A map of Eastern Canada drawn by French explorer Samuel de Champlain has sold at auction for $286,570 Cdn, three times its estimated price. Sotheby's auction house in London said the work sold to ...

A hand-drawn map of Detroit under British rule from 1790 recently found in a Canadian family's home is now displayed in the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library.

A rare, hand-drawn 1790 map of Detroit has been discovered in a family home in Ontario. ... Smith went on to serve as surveyor general of Upper Canada (today Ontario) from 1792 to 1802.

The maps were donated to the museum anonymously in 1967, but were likely drawn not long after the battle in 1759. Fragile maps The map shows the French and British positions at the start of the ...