Barbara Mitchell, the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, and University of Regina Press cordially invite you to celebrate a book launch for
“MAPMAKER: PHILIP TURNOR IN RUPERT’S LAND IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT”
by Barbara Mitchell
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Location: Archives of Manitoba, 200 Vaughan Street, Winnipeg, MB
Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Please RSVP (204) 945-4949 or hbca@gov.mb.ca.
Philip Turnor was the first inland surveyor for the Hudson’s Bay Company and the man who taught the explorers David Thompson and Peter Fidler how to survey. Between 1778 and 1792, Turnor and his guides travelled over 15,000 miles by canoe and foot to produce ten maps, which laid the foundation for all northern geographic knowledge at that time. Yet until now, Turnor has remained a lesser known figure. In Mapmaker, Turnor’s inaugural biography, Barbara Mitchell brings this surveyor to life, while also discovering her own ancestry as one of thousands of descendants of Turnor and his Cree wife.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/M/Mapmaker