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This is a repository of print and online maps related to First Nations and Indigenous Peoples & Culture in Canada, North America and the world.
Many of Carleton Library's print maps have been scanned. These scans are available to Carleton University students, faculty and staff; you must use your Carleton One credentials to access them.
To find maps on the Internet or on the library's website, in order to conduct research, remember to use different terminology i.e. Indigenous, First Nations, Aboriginal. Simon Fraser University has created this document on the history of Indigenous terminology.
For assistance, please email gis@carleton.ca.
MacOdrum Library has an extensive print map collection. Many of our Indigenous maps show treaties, languages, population and historical geography.We also provide a map scanning service for Carleton students, faculty and staff. Find a map in the library's collection? Fill out the form and we will scan that map for you.
To find print & scanned maps in OMNI:
1. Enter your search terms (i.e. "residential school*")
2. On the left hand side, you will notice a list of refinements. Under Resource Type, click on Show More and choose Maps.
Search results include atlases, print maps, scanned maps and some online, interactive maps.
Maps that have been scanned and are copyrighted will require your Carleton One (MC1) credentials in order to download the map in Explorer.
For assistance with print or scanned maps, please email gis@carleton.ca
Selection of print and scanned maps:
- Comprehensive Land Claims in Canada
- First Generations: an Ontario Heritage Map
- First Nations & Inuit: traditional names and locations (Canada)
- First Nations of Ontario (Tribal Maps)
- First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia
- Indigenous Atlas of Canada (Canadian Geographic)
- North America before Columbus (National Geographic)
- Yukon Place Names in Native Languages (Yukon Native Language Centre)
Geoviewer (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada)
Map Room (Government of Canada)
We are Here: Indigenous Heritage Content (Library and Archives Canada)
In this section, you can find online and scanned maps (from Carleton's print map collection). Please note: in order to download scanned maps, you must enter your Carleton One login).
Colonization (16-19th century)
British Possessions in North America from the best authorities, 1794
Exploration (NRCan)
Map of the British Possessions in North America
Territorial Evolution (NRCan)
People, Population & Culture
Aboriginal Peoples circa 1630, 1740 and 1823 (NRCan)
Residential Schools
Canadian Residential School & Colonial Institutions Database, 1620-Present
Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas (Carleton University Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre)
Algonquin Land Claim (Government of Ontario)
Ontario First Nations Map (Government of Ontario)
Yukon First Nations Traditional Territories Map (Government of the Yukon)
First Nations in Saskatchewan (Government of Canada)
First Nations Profiles Interactive Map (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada)
First Peoples' Map of British Columbia (First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council)
Inuit Places (Carleton University Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre)
Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas (Carleton University Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre)
We are Here: Indigenous Heritage Content (Library and Archives Canada)
Atlas of Arctic Ocean Perspectives (Carleton University Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre)
Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory Map Navigator (Government of Canada): this site allows you to limit your search to Treaty Areas.
Indigenous Knowledges and Climate Change (Government of Canada)
Pan Inuit Trails Atlas (Carleton University Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre)
