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Map of the Expulsion of the French Acadians
This map reconstructs the Acadia of the Expulsion with detail maps depicting the most prominent sights down to the crops and the individual homes. Several sketches recreate the forts and block houses that characterize defenses in these perilous times.
Principal Map Scale : 1"=app. 15 miles
Detail maps: Various scales
Map Image: 35" x 19"
Overall size: 36" x 23"
McElfresh Map Company, LLC, researches, draws, watercolors and publishes historical base or "reconstruction" maps of major battle fields and historical events.
Maps currently in the series include the Civil War battlefields of Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Theater, Chancellorsville, Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Cold Harbor, and America of the Civil War. Maps of Little Big Horn, Pearl Harbor, Saratoga, Santiago de Cuba, Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase and Le Havre to Cherbourg: Normandy at D-Day are also available.
McElfresh Map Company also compiles and publishes "Map Primers" a selection of contemporaneous and informative maps relating to a single subject or topic. The first in the series is Shackleton: An Antarctica Map Primer.
Principal Map Scale : 1"=app. 15 miles
Detail maps: Various scales
Map Image: 35" x 19"
Overall size: 36" x 23"
McElfresh Map Company, LLC, researches, draws, watercolors and publishes historical base or "reconstruction" maps of major battle fields and historical events.
Maps currently in the series include the Civil War battlefields of Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Theater, Chancellorsville, Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Cold Harbor, and America of the Civil War. Maps of Little Big Horn, Pearl Harbor, Saratoga, Santiago de Cuba, Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase and Le Havre to Cherbourg: Normandy at D-Day are also available.
McElfresh Map Company also compiles and publishes "Map Primers" a selection of contemporaneous and informative maps relating to a single subject or topic. The first in the series is Shackleton: An Antarctica Map Primer.
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First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Earl B. McElfresh
31 books2 followersEarl B. McElfresh (St. Lawrence University) is the author of Sidereal Days, The History of Rock & Roll, A Romance (Tammy Norie Press e-book 2012,) Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams, 1999) and contributing editor to Company Commander by Charles B. MacDonald (History Book Club, 2007.) He is a regular contributor of Civil War articles to Civil War Times Magazine.
He has spoken on Civil War mapping at The Smithsonian, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Boston Public Library, The Newberry Library, The Harvard Map Collection, The Warburg Institute in London, National Geographic and on C-Span Book TV.
His plays Marvels of Modern Man and Amid Planetary Music were performed at St. Lawrence University. His play Honor Luck received a reading at the New Phoenix Theater in Buffalo. His screenplay Lazy Eye was filmed and premiered at the New School in New York.
Cartographer for McElfresh Map Company LLC, he has prepared twenty-three maps. Twenty of the maps have been main or featured selections of History Book Club. He is currently preparing endpaper maps for the four volume Civil War set being being published by Library of America and entitled The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It.
He served two years in Olean (NY) city government on the Common Council—a great experience—and he played rhythm guitar with the band The Fabtones. The cabaret laws of New York City pretty much restricted their playing to the wonderfully hospitable streets of New York City.
He and his wife Michiko have three children and a cat. Like Roger Miller’s King of the Road, they have no pool.
He has spoken on Civil War mapping at The Smithsonian, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, The Boston Public Library, The Newberry Library, The Harvard Map Collection, The Warburg Institute in London, National Geographic and on C-Span Book TV.
His plays Marvels of Modern Man and Amid Planetary Music were performed at St. Lawrence University. His play Honor Luck received a reading at the New Phoenix Theater in Buffalo. His screenplay Lazy Eye was filmed and premiered at the New School in New York.
Cartographer for McElfresh Map Company LLC, he has prepared twenty-three maps. Twenty of the maps have been main or featured selections of History Book Club. He is currently preparing endpaper maps for the four volume Civil War set being being published by Library of America and entitled The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It.
He served two years in Olean (NY) city government on the Common Council—a great experience—and he played rhythm guitar with the band The Fabtones. The cabaret laws of New York City pretty much restricted their playing to the wonderfully hospitable streets of New York City.
He and his wife Michiko have three children and a cat. Like Roger Miller’s King of the Road, they have no pool.
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