snowdog: one of the maps is a 1970 Providence of Ontario, Dept. of Land and Forests map titled "Agness Lake". It is 24"x17' and covers a good part of Q. Scale 1" to 2 miles. Several of the same series maps of covering the remaing portions of Q  and a few U.S. G.S. quad maps (about 50) covering N.E. MN. and a couple 1948 Superior N.F.  timber survey maps were also included

the drafting table to the right of the map case was also included in the lot of stuff I bid on, but those items aren't what I was bidding on, but I had to take them.......to get what I wanted .  The map case I wanted and was outbid on was Oak with brass hardware...now that was a nice map case

Riversend wrote on May 26^th, 2009 at 10:54pm:


Me too, I'm envious Riversend; I had a chance to pick up a map case like that years ago from a retired engineer and passed it up at the time.  I wish I had it now.

starwatcher

Riversend wrote on May 26^th, 2009 at 10:54pm:


i think all of us are envious of that find.

thebutcher

Riversend wrote on May 26^th, 2009 at 10:54pm:


Now that's a sweet find!  Color me envious...

What kinda maps did you get in your treasure chest?

What's on your wall-ette :question...... Speaking of maps ...Ckeck out this map case I was able to pick up at an auction ......yep, full of maps...some real beauties  stuffed in it....guys, basements and maps....I'm guilty as charged .....now, got to pick up one of those Quetico foundation sattlelite photo maps.....they are nice

Snow Dog:

Now I have to dig a basement under the house! Great idea.

Tim

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Amen, Tom!  I don't have any of the above maps, but do have a '93 vintage Quetico Foundation map. 

While I don't have a hanging wall map, my map case is never put away and pictures from trips gone by adorn my walls.  Mrs. JJcanoeguide wonders how I can review maps for hours at a time, completely oblivous to what's going on in the "real world".    I just chalk it up to an escape to a state of mind that makes me just a little more sanguine.  Plus, I think all of us would agree that in most ways, the Quetico/BW is the "real world".

Snow_Dog wrote on May 26^th, 2009 at 2:55pm:

Ahhh, this is why I come here...because I know there are others who are just as fully infected with this sickness as I am!  
-Tom

starwatcher wrote on May 26^th, 2009 at 2:56am:


ANY map of the Q is a good map!

I was fortunate enough to have the wall-space to put up the full-sized Fisher maps all pasted together on my basement wall.  I really wanted to use McKenzies, but the scale on them was just a bit too large to fit floor-to-ceiling.  The slightly smaller scale of the Fishers was just right.

I love my wall map and the grandiose dreams it continually spawns.  My trans-Quetico trip via the less-travelled sections of the park was directly inspired by time spent daydreaming in front of this map.  Mrs. Snow_Dog just rolls her eyes when she sees me down there "plotting and scheming" yet another trip. 

I'm quite confident I'll run out of lifetime long before before I run out of trips, and I'm hopefully a long way away from either possibility.

Looks like I'm missing the boat, or canoe with my Fisher map.  Maybe I need to check out the Quetico Foundation map.   

starwatcher