PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW TOLSON
What it feels like to examine one of the earliest maps to use the word ’Canada’
Canadian cartography buffs live for an opportunity like this. You’re invited into the hidden room in the Toronto Reference Library that houses one of the first maps to use the word ‘Canada.’
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