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Confederation Conflict
Canadian Geographic
|March/April 2019
How a divisive political battle put Newfoundland on the map.
HERE’S A STUMPER. What’s missing from this geological map of Eastern Canada?
If you’re particularly sharp-eyed, you may have spotted that Nunavut doesn’t exist and that Iqaluit, the territory’s capital, is still labelled as Frobisher Bay. Or that in northwestern Ontario, Thunder Bay has yet to emerge from the amalgamation of Port Arthur and Fort William. So far, so very 1945 — the year the map was created.
This story is from the March/April 2019 edition of Canadian Geographic.
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