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Cartographic productions and historiographical representations: Geographical imaginations of the St. Lawrence River
Author(s) -
Castonguay Stéphane
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12317
Subject(s) - historiography , settlement (finance) , geography , structuring , colonialism , historical geography , history , key (lock) , cartography , economic geography , archaeology , human geography , political science , ecology , computer science , world wide web , law , payment , biology
Key Messages Historical geographers and historians have represented the St. Lawrence River either as a trade route for continental exploration or as an artery structuring European settlement. A study of historical maps shows that rather than succeeding each other, these two functions continually co‐existed in the geographical imaginations of cartographers. The paper suggests areas of potential collaboration between geography and history to question the fluvial relationships of a colonial society and understand its spatial representations.