Acting on a tip from the delightful Robin, I scored some great 1950’s geography journals with tipped-in maps. They were on the “free” table at the University of Victoria library. I even found one with a map of the Holyoke Range in Western Massachusetts. I have great memories of many of the topographic features that appear on the map, from a whole span of years encompassing my college days, later working in the same area, and visiting friends there in the years since.

This is one of the best maps of the bunch too, in terms of its execution. Beautiful old-school map labeling. I’m now working on the UVic campus, so it seemed somehow appropriate that I happened on this map with its memories of those times spent in another beautiful place, going to school and working on campus.

I love finding these kind of forgotten pieces of the past. This was in a journal from 1953, I believe. Out of date enough to be given away by the library. Published years before I was born, never mind off at college populating various features of the map. So many things being constantly created, shared, then put away, eventually forgotten. And sometimes, later, rediscovered and appreciated again.