"Thomas & Abbotts Enlarged Map of Ottawa, Ont." print by Thomas & Abbott (1911)

Scarred but taped, this 1911 Map by Thomas and Abbott survived a century of wear to show us what Ottawa and Hull looked like fully recovered from the fire of 1900. Dow's Lake is at the edge of town, and Ottawa hasn't yet jumped the Rideau River southward and eastward. Yes, it's annoying that the mapmakers forgot an apostrophe on "Abbott's", but I've made worse mistakes myself and their salmon-and-burnt-umber colour coding more than makes up for it. 

A reproduction available at 12x12" or 24x24" on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed. Restored from this object found in the York University Digital Library.