Maps and Geospatial Data

Selected Digital Historical Maps of Montreal & Region

1825. Map of the City and Suburbs of Montreal

• Online access of map (via McGill)

1846. Topographic and pictorial map of the City of Montreal.

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)
• Online access of map (via McGill)

1878. Plans Officiels de la Paroisse de Montréal.

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)

1879. Atlas of the city and island of Montreal.

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)
• Digital copies of map (via McGill)

1881. Atlas of the City of Montreal.

• Online access of maps (via McGill)

1890. Atlas of the City of Montreal. Goad.

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)

1907. Atlas of the Island and City of Montreal and Ile Bizard. Pinsoneault.

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)

1912-1914. Atlas of the City of Montreal and vicinity. Goad.

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)

1949. Plans d'utilisation du sol de la ville de Montréal. Ville de Montréal

• Online access of maps (via BAnQ)
• Access of maps (via McGill)

Historical Maps and Atlases On-Line

• America, 1500-1800. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec
• Atlas of Canada: History
• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States From the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab, this resources offers all of the maps from Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, scanned and georectified.
• British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918 From the National Library of Scotland: "Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches. "
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• Early Canadian Maps. McGill University
• Historical Map Websites
• Historical Maps and Plans. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec. Images in JPG format.
• List of fire insurance plans of Montreal and other Quebec cities and towns. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec.
• Mapping 375 years of progress: rare Montreal maps from 1556-1946. McGill University
• Maps and Photos of Europe.
• Plans de villes et villages du Québec (Historical Maps and Plans of towns and cities in Quebec). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec.
• Québec Topographique (Historical Topographic Maps of Quebec 1:50 000). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec.
• Virtual Shanghai Maps Collection More than 500 historical maps and cartographic surveys of Shanghai, spanning from 1855 to 2003. Many are georeferenced or include location information.
• USGS Historical Topographical Map Explorer More than 178,000 georeferenced topographic maps of the United States dating from 1882 to 2006, including downloadable GeoTIFFs.