Click here to access GeoGulf: The Gulf of St Lawrence Historical Map Viewer

Welcome to GeoGulf: The Gulf of St Lawrence Historical Map Viewer! GeoGulf is a web application for viewing historical maps of The Gulf of St Lawrence. It was created as part of the Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St Lawrence Region c.1500-Present, project, at The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). In this version, the maps include 149 charts and surveys drawn by Captain Henry W. Bayfield as part of the St. Lawrence Survey (1826-1856). More than ninety of the maps were scanned by and supplied courtesy of the McGill Library Special Collections Division (see the Admiralty collection). All of the remaining maps are copies of the versions available at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).

The full url to the GeoGulf application is https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0474acf8e73947468593263b68a82c53/

Sail the Gulf with Bayfield

Welcome to “Sail the Gulf of St. Lawrence with Captain Henry W. Bayfield, 1831-1853.”

With students in the UPEI GeoREACH Lab, we extracted a few hundred entries from Bayfield’s journals and created an animated map of where he most likely was on each day of the active surveying season (June to October) in the years 1831-1853. There are a few gaps as Bayfield’s journals were missing in the late 1830s and from 1849-1850, but viewers can see the main thrust of the St Lawrence Survey over two decades. For instance, the location of the Gulnare shows how Bayfield’s attention (and his home base) move to the Southern Gulf in the 1840s.

Click here to visit Sail the Gulf with Bayfield

Visit the website and click “Play” to board the Gulnare, join the St Lawrence Survey, and sail the Gulf of St. Lawrence with Capt. Henry Bayfield.