print email comment close The Barren Lands: J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894 URL: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/tyrrell/ Description: "Documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut" between 1892 and 1894. Contains over "5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports." Searchable and browsable. Includes biographical information on geologist J.B. Tyrrell and his brother, surveyor and interpreter James W. Tyrrell. Also features interactive expedition maps. From the University of Toronto Library. Publisher: University of Toronto Libraries Library of Congress Subject Headings: Geological surveys Geology -- Northwest, Canadian Hudson Bay Region -- Discovery and exploration LII Database Information: Record 6486 created by Tom McGibney on 11/18/2001 Last modification on 04/01/2006 Published: 11/18/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6486