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Introduction
In 2013 the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Canada requested The National Archives' Samuel Holland's 1765 map of Prince Edward Island (then St John's Island) for the exhibition 'Imperial Designs: Holland's Map and the Making of Prince Edward Island' which will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the famous Dutch cartographer.

Our catalogue entry or the map of Prince Edward Island describes the map as a 'Plan of the Island of St John in the Province of Nova Scotia, as surveyed agreeable to the order and instructions of The Lords Commissioners