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I recently returned from giving a presentation at Carto2013; an annual Canadian cartographic themed conference that was held at the University of Alberta co-hosted by the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) & the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA). One of the key themes evident at the conference was related to history of cartography and history through maps", a topic that many of the presentations were related to and several of these talks were about 1826 maps of Northwestern North America created by David Thompson. I myself have never really had much interest in history however these presentations provided me with a much different perspective on history and maybe I have found myself a new (or old??) to explore. Yesterday while searching for some Canadian maps with my daughter I stumbled across yet some more historic themed cartography, so I thought perhaps we should start a new section on canadiangis.com/ related to Historic Cartography since it is pretty evident that this is becoming topic of interest to many in the Canadian Geomatics community. Find out more about Canadian Geographic Maps & Thompson’s 1826 Map of Northwestern North America ...