Using the Provincial Landscape Viewer

The Provincial Landscape Viewer is a terrific tool which has a variety of layers - forestry, crown ownership and ecological classification.  It has a comprehensive and thorough Help Section.

You can upload Titus' tours from this Zip file and view his 200-year-old observations against the background of today's interpretations. Some of the descriptions are truncated in the conversion from KML to Shapefiles.

Here is a picture of intermediate-size Eco-districts overlain with Titus' tracks and sites:


There are 40 classifications.  I'm trying to make some sense of all this and hope to add something soon.  For now, it's a fascinating glimpse into the ecological history of  the province.

Here's an example from October 10, 1802:


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