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Sectional map indicating main automobile roads between Canada & United States: Atlantic Sheet; Great Lakes Sheet; Middle West Sheet; Pacific Sheet. . . .

1928 · 62600 — Ottawa ONT: Natural Resources Intelligence Service 1928-1929. Four large folding colour maps. atlas folio w/ largest sized 45 x 35 in. w/ each sheet including an index map indicating there are 4 in total with outlines fold creases as issued minor age toning to fore-edges a few minor closed tears at fold creases still a VG set of maps. Early printing of this four sheet map depicting the automobile roads connecting Canada and the United States during the 1920’s as the Good Roads Movement rapidly expanded through the Northern Country following World War I. These maps depict the burgeoning highway and national road system which had been fostered by urban centers attempting to convince rural municipalities to replace their seasonal dirt roads with those of gravel or crushed stone and facilitate much greater movement of agricultural and manufacturing products across the continent and with the U.S. The Atlantic map stretches from the maritime provinces down to Washington D.C. and over to Niagara Falls and Buffalo NY; The Middle West map documents the main automobile roads and highways from Port Albert to Port Arthur and South from Denver to St. Louis indicating provincial federal and state roads and highways; The Great Lakes section tracks the extensive network of roads and highways surrounding the Great Lakes including those in Iowa Kentucky Wisconsin New York and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario; while the Pacific Map records the highways from San Francisco to Denver and up through Alberta and over to British Columbia. Uncommon with all four maps present. See: J.I. Little Confronting Rural Localism: The Good Roads Movement in Quebec’s Eastern Townships 1897-1920 Social History/Histoire sociale Vol. 57 No. 117 May 2024. Natural Resources Intelligence Service, unknown