Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement

[1-3]+4-45 pages with charts and three folding maps. Folio (13 4" x 10") bound in half leather over original publisher's boards with label to cover. Published in 1859 as Appendix 4 to the Seventeenth Volume of the Journals of The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. It had previously been published by Dawson in 1858. (Sabin 18958) Includes a letter by Bishop Tache (the bishop of St. Boniface) on the Red River settlement and the 'half-breeds' in the settlement. Second edition. The maps Route by Road & Navigation for Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans' is colored, two very long folding maps; one showing the 'Profile of Route by the Grand Portage and Pigeon River from Lake Superior to Rainy Lake', and the other being a 'Plan Shewing the Region Explored by S. J. Dawson and his party between Fort William and the great Saskatchewan River'. Simon James Dawson was a Canadian civil engineer and politician. In 1857, as a member of a Canadian government expedition, he surveyed a line of road from Prince Arthur s Landing (later Port Arthur, now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) to Fort Garry and further explored that area in 1858 and 1859. His report greatly stimulated Canadian interest in the West. In 1868, he was placed in charge of construction of a wagon and water route following his earlier survey by the newly formed federal Department of Public Works. The Dawson road was traversed in 1870 by the Wolseley Expedition under the command of Colonel Garnet Wolseley sent to preserve order during the first Riel uprising, the Red River Rebellion. Condition: Rebacked to style, corners bumped, front end paper toned, maps over folded else very good.…