Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada : the adventurer & map maker's formative years /Jerry Lockett.

A biography of Captain James Cook (1728-79), concentrating on Cook's experiences in Canada after joining the Royal Navy in 1755. In 1758, during the Seven Years War, Cook sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia as master of the Pembroke and following the fall of Louisburg, Cook developed his surveying and cartography skills with his surveys of Gaspe Bay and harbour. This resulted in his first published chart. Transferring to the Northumberland after the fall of Quebec and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Cook went on to survey and chart the Saint Lawrence River and the coast of Nova Scotia. Cook then spent five seasons in the 1760s surveying the Newfoundland coastline in the Grenville, producing the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts using precise triangulation to establish land outlines.