thecharioteer
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1906 Harbour Map:
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wwwebster
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“Wadsworth & Unwin's map of the City of Toronto [shewing real estate exemptions from taxation], compiled and drawn by Maurice Gaviller, C.E. & P.L.S., from plans filed in the Registry Office and the most recent surveys, 1872. Wadsworth & Unwin, P.L. Surveyors, Toronto, Sepr. 1st, 1872. City Engineers Office, Toronto, Jany 1878 [Signature illegible]. Copp, Clark & Co. Lith. Toronto. Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1872, by Wadsworth & Unwin, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.â€
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/nmc/n0025641k_a1.pdf
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/nmc/n0025641k_a2.pdf
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/nmc/n0025641k_a3.pdf
Apart from the Fire Hydrant and Signal Box locations (information I consider to be pure gold), perhaps my favourite feature of this map is on Part 2, bounded by Huron, Sullivan, Beverley and (then) Charles:
“Willow Tree referred to in Old Deeds.â€
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/nmc/n0025641k_a1.pdf
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/nmc/n0025641k_a2.pdf
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/nmc/n0025641k_a3.pdf
Apart from the Fire Hydrant and Signal Box locations (information I consider to be pure gold), perhaps my favourite feature of this map is on Part 2, bounded by Huron, Sullivan, Beverley and (then) Charles:
“Willow Tree referred to in Old Deeds.â€
Earlscourt_Lad
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^ Thank you for destroying my productivity today.
wwwebster
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Today I’m a happy man. I’ve been waiting for the 1880 Goad’s Fire Insurance Plan to become available online. Toronto Archives now has maps:
http://www.toronto.ca/archives/maps.htm
http://www.toronto.ca/archives/maps.htm
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Great news, thanks for telling us. Even better would be a site that has links to all Toronto scanned maps but ....
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A couple of years later... check out:
Historical Maps of Toronto and Goad's Atlas of Toronto -- Online!
By no means comprehensive, but still a sweet selection.
[sorry for reviving an old inactive thread. This post is more for the benefit of anyone doing a search for old Toronto maps, via, say, Google.]
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Sorry to bump this old (though still interesting) thread but I have a question.
For several years there have been discussions in St Lawrence about some sort of commemoration of the 'original shoreline' and there are currently two locations where this has happened. One is at the Distillery District and the other is the art piece on the Church Street side of The Berczy.
One question has always been 'which shoreline' but this appears to moving towards a consensus on the shoreline in the early 19th century. The City used to (and maybe still does) note the "Top of Bank" and "Waters Edge" in many plans - as shown on this (1973) street plan for the corner of George and Front that is part of a 1973 by-law about a lease of City land.
QUESTION; Do any UTers know of a map/plan of the area between Bay Street and Cherry Street that shows these lines? Who would have such a thing, the City's Geospatial Competency Centre says they have no such plan, but i suspect the information is coded somewhere in their files. HELP!!
For several years there have been discussions in St Lawrence about some sort of commemoration of the 'original shoreline' and there are currently two locations where this has happened. One is at the Distillery District and the other is the art piece on the Church Street side of The Berczy.
One question has always been 'which shoreline' but this appears to moving towards a consensus on the shoreline in the early 19th century. The City used to (and maybe still does) note the "Top of Bank" and "Waters Edge" in many plans - as shown on this (1973) street plan for the corner of George and Front that is part of a 1973 by-law about a lease of City land.
QUESTION; Do any UTers know of a map/plan of the area between Bay Street and Cherry Street that shows these lines? Who would have such a thing, the City's Geospatial Competency Centre says they have no such plan, but i suspect the information is coded somewhere in their files. HELP!!
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Hmm, there's this, in the archives (but its not very clear); fetched from BlogTO:
The Star has a bunch of old maps:
from: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/06/26/wharf_a_reminder_of_torontos_transformed_shoreline.html
If you go to the article linked above you can scroll through several more.
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I think this one from U of T might be the best:
from: https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digital/NG/historicTOmaps/1855MagnusN.JPG
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As usual, very helpful maps but I am still hoping to find a City 'plan' or map (or plans/maps) showing the exact surveyor lines of the Top of Bank and Water's Edge for the whole area from Bay to Cherry - similar to the one I found for the Front/George intersection.