Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
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Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres (22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824)[1] was a Canadian cartographer who served in the Seven Years' War, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe.[2]
Des Barres is perhaps best known as the creator the monumental four-volume Atlantic Neptune, the most important collection of maps, charts and views of North America published in the eighteenth century.[3] He later went on to serve as the Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Breton Colony and later as Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island.
Colonel Des Barres is buried with his wife under St. George's (Round) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia.