Thursday April 10th, 2008 6:00PM-7.30PM

The Honourable Robert Edward Clifford (1767-1817): Maps and Mysteries

Cathy Moulder, Director of Library Services, Maps, Data and GIS, McMaster University Library will be the speaker on Englishman and a renowned map collector Robert Clifford. Clifford lived a quiet scholarly life in Paris during the French Revolution and early years of the Napoleonic era. But his correspondence with John Graves Simcoe reveals an exciting escape from France in 1803 with a trunk of secret maps and plans. Could the maps in McMaster University Library's collection have been part of that daring escape?

Cathy Moulder will tell this mystery tale and show a few maps from the intriguing Clifford collection.

Meeting to be held at:

University of Toronto, Robarts Library room 4049
130 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5.
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For more information visit contact ucms@sympatico.ca

Thursday March 8th, 20076:00PM-7.30PM

"THE  MAP  THAT  DISCOVERED  AMERICA"
A celebration of the  50th anniversary of the publication of Martin Waldseemuller's World Map of 1507. A look at the life and times of Martin Waldseemuller and at the story of what is almost certainly the most important map in the history of New World cartography. Speaker : Ed Rutherford, lecturer on the history of Cartography at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies

Tuesday May 29th, 2007 6:00PM-7.30PM
 
"The 1701 Samuel Clowes Map" Part of a Deed From the Iroquois to the King of England of a Vast Tract of Land. The "re-discovery" of the map and it's legal implications in the 21st century Canadian courts.  Speaker: Dr. Alexander von Gernet, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology