A “delineation of much value”
This article proposes a new synthesis of spatial representation of fur trade activities at the source of Ottawa River between 1760 and 1870. This territory can still be exploited for its rich ethnohistorical data, mainly by interpreting the Cameron map, drawn in 1842 by one or several fur traders. Associated with missionaries, lumbermen or surveyors’ travel diaries, this key document makes it possible to update the exact location of trading posts, but also canoe routes used by traders, as well as Natives who frequented this region during the British era. In deconstructing the map, we discover a métis cartography of a neglected region in fur trade studies.