Historic Map : S.D.U.K. Map of Nova Scotia, Canada, 1832, Vintage Wall Art

A beautiful 1832 map of Nova Scotia issued by the S.D.U.K. It covers the maritime provinces of Canada including the Prince Edward Island and part of New Brunswick and Quebec. Canadian provinces and territories were under British and French control from the 16th century, until France gave up its claims in the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Canada would remain a collection of British colonies until its confederation in 1867, when the British colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia would become Canadian provinces along with Ontario and Quebec. Nova Scotia would become the first British colony to adopt representative government in 1848. Although known as the 'Birthplace of Confederation,' Prince Edward Island would only join the confederation in 1873.

Published in 1832 by Baldwin and Cradock of Paternoster Row for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, or S.D.U.K. Although the Society formally closed its doors in 1848, subsequent reissues of the S.D.U.K. atlas were printed well into the 1870s by Chapman and Hall, who acquired the original plates.