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An excellent first edition example of Colton's rare 1855 map of Ontario. Covers what at the time was called Upper or West Canada from Michigan to Montreal. Includes Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and part of Lake Huron. Two insets in the lower right quadrant detail Wolf Island and the Welland Canal. Throughout the map Colton identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, rapids, fords, and an assortment of additional topographical details. Map is hand colored in pink, green, yellow and blue pastels to define national and regional boundaries. Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border. Dated and copyrighted to J. H. Colton, 1855. Published as page no. 6 in volume 1 of the first edition of George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World .
A rare and extremely influential 1755 map of the Great Lakes drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin. This map, which appeared in the 1755 issue of the Homann Heirs Atlas Major, covers all five of the Great Lakes as well as the adjacent Indian lands and the English colonies of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Cartographically this map offers a number of important innovations and is largely derived from Bellin’s very similar map of 1745. The plate was acquired and reissued by Homann Heirs in 1755 in response to European interest in the French and Indian War which started one year prior in 1754. Bellin based this map on the most advanced French cartographic intelligence available at the time. Heidenrich and Dahl consider this map to constitute “the first new material pertaining to New France to appear since the maps of Guillaume de L'Isle three decades earlier. Most notably this map incorporates the work of the French fur trader and explorer Sieur la Verendrye and the explorer-missionary Father Pierre de Charlevoix. From Verendrye, Bellin is able to extract a significantly advanced view, over De L’Isle, of the form of the Great Lakes and their client river systems. He also relies on Verendrye’s journals with regard to the placement of numerous Indian nations and villages. Charlevoix is generally regarded as Bellin’s source for his curious choice to include several fictional islands in Lake Superior, including I. Philippeaux, I. Pontchartrain, and I. St. Anne. This map is the first, though hardly the last, to depict these ghost islands which baffled explorers until the early 19th century. A quick overview of this map will reveal a territory that is very much dominated by various American Indian nations though nominally under a tenuous French hegemony. The vast lands of the Miami, the Iroquois, the Erie, the Huron, the Renard, the Mascouten, and the Illinois overwhelm tiny bastions of French power in the form of various forts and missions. Among these are Fort Frontenac, Fort Niagara, Mission Francois Xavier, and the fledgling “R. et Port de Checagou,” the future site of Chicago. The French, without the vast colonial resources of the English and Spanish, relied heavily on alliance with, rather than outright control of, indigenous populations. Thus it is understandable why the American Indian nations of this region were quick to throw their lot in with the French against the domineering English during the French and Indian War. In the lower right hand quadrants of this map Bellin employs a common cartographic trick to flatter his royal patrons in Paris. By diminishing the proportional size of the English colonial holdings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and New York, Bellin, at least metaphorically, advances the supremacy of the French dominions in North America. In addition to its advanced mapping of the Great Lakes, its introduction of the ghost islands of Lake Superior, and its incorporation of the most recent explorations in the region, this map enjoys lasting significance due to John Mitchell’s use of it in compiling his important wall map, A Map of the British & French Dominions in North America. Mitchell’s monumental cartographic masterpiece was used in 1783 to define the boundaries between Canada and the post-Revolutionary United States, forming the basis for national borders that are still in effect today.
A New Map of Upper & Lower Canada, from the latest authorities
Photo by J. H. Colton
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California, United States · North America

About Ontario

Ontario is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Upland, 11km from Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum.

Ontario is in California, United States, with about 170,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Upland, about 4 km away.

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Within an hour or so of Ontario: Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum (11 km), In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip (12 km), Disneyland Park (37 km), Disney California Adventure Park (38 km).

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The nearest famous roads are Mulholland Drive and Route 66 - Santa Monica End.

Where is Ontario?

Ontario is in California, United States, about 4 km from Upland.

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Population
171,214
Continent
North America
Country
United States
Region
California
Timezone
America/Los_Angeles
Coordinates
34.0633, -117.6509

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Worth the detour from Ontario

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

museum

Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum

Drag racing's shrine at the Pomona Fairplex, steps from the historic strip where the NHRA season starts and ends, packed with top fuel dragsters, hot rods and land-speed cars.

11 km · about 20 min drive

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In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip

The oldest continuously operating drag strip in the world, opened 1951 on the Los Angeles County Fairplex, and the traditional season opener and finale of the NHRA calendar.

12 km · about 20 min drive

landmark

Disneyland Park

Walt Disney's original theme park opened in 1955, the happiest place on earth in Anaheim, California.

37 km · about 45 min drive

landmark

Disney California Adventure Park

Anaheim Disney park celebrating California's culture, history, and natural beauty with Pixar and Marvel lands.

38 km · about 45 min drive

landmark

Cars Land (Disney California Adventure)

Disney's immersive recreation of Radiator Springs from Pixar's Cars films with the thrilling Radiator Springs Racers ride.

38 km · about 45 min drive

landmark

Knott's Berry Farm

America's first theme park in Buena Park, California, known for its Old West Ghost Town and thrilling coasters.

40 km · about 45 min drive

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Newcomb's Ranch

A historic mountain lodge on the Angeles Crest Highway that has served as a meeting point for motorcyclists and drivers tackling LA's best mountain road since 1939.

44 km · about 50 min drive

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Moto Republic

A shared motorcycle workshop and social hub in Costa Mesa where riders wrench on their bikes and share the community stoke.

50 km · about 60 min drive

Driving roads near Ontario

  • 73 kmMulholland DriveWinding road through the Santa Monica Mountains with LA city views
  • 78 kmRoute 66 - Santa Monica EndThe 'End of the Trail' sign on Santa Monica Pier marks Route 66's symbolic Pacific terminus, 2,448 miles from Chicago, beside the pier's vintage carousel and Ferris wheel.

Nearby Destinations

Other places to explore near Ontario.

Upland

🇺🇸 United States

4 km awayPop. 76,443

Montclair

🇺🇸 United States

4 km awayPop. 38,690

Chino

🇺🇸 United States

7 km awayPop. 85,595

Rancho Cucamonga

🇺🇸 United States

7 km awayPop. 175,236

Claremont

🇺🇸 United States

7 km awayPop. 36,283

Pomona

🇺🇸 United States

9 km awayPop. 153,266

Los Serranos

🇺🇸 United States

11 km awayPop. 7,099

La Verne

🇺🇸 United States

12 km awayPop. 32,681

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