UPDATE: Maps now available for sale here.
Plans are coming together for the production and sale of commemorative Gatineau Park ski maps in aid of the Canadian Ski Museum.
As mentioned here in honour of the 100th anniversary of the Ottawa Ski Club I’ve gotten permission to reproduce the 1967 (coincidentally Canada’s centennial year) National Research Council experimental orthophoto map of ski trails in Gatineau Park. (click the thumbnail image to enlarge one little area of detail from the map)
The current thinking is that we will produce a limed number of framed or mounted maps and sell them at art-store prices with all revenues beyond production costs going to support the Canadian Ski Museum.
One of the restrictions on the NRC permission to reproduce the map is that sales of the map can’t continue beyond the date of the centennial celebration . This means that if you don’t buy your copy before October 24th 2010 you won’t be able to buy it afterwards.
We don’t have the details worked out yet but if you are interested in purchasing a copy let me know and I’ll send you the info as soon as I have it.
UPDATE: Denise wrote to ask about the dimensions of the map and what breadth of coverage it encompassed. I described it thusly:
The electronic version I’m doing my planning with appears to indicate that the dimensions are 38 inches wide and 20 inches high.
The north west corner of coverage hits the northwest end of Meech Lake; the south west corner of coverage just touches the flats below the escarpment; the north east corner of coverage includes the intersection where the Kingsmere road ends near Old Chelsea; the south east corner of the map’s coverage includes the Champlain parkway approximately where the new road runs up to the MacKenzie King Estate.
So it’s about twice as wide as it is tall and it’s width is about twice the length of Meech lake in coverage.