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Toronto, Canada's largest urban center and the capital of Ontario Province, was founded in 1791 by British Loyalists. Originally named York, the settlement was renamed Toronto in 1834 with the granting of a city charter. The city's rectangular grid pattern of streets, which was used for most United States and Canadian cities laid out in the 19th century, is depicted on this 1873 map which was published to accompany a city directory. Representative of late 19th-century urban maps, it shows the individual streets and street names, as well as the city's wards, public parks, and prominent buildings including the parliament buildings, colleges, schools, hospitals, churches, and asylums. Particularly evident are the railroads, which feed into the central business district and terminate at a number of wharves protruding into the harbor, providing evidence of the city's commercial and transportation functions.
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Document identity
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x633f9889
label
City of Toronto
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
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x633f9889
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
City of Toronto
description
Toronto, Canada's largest urban center and the capital of Ontario Province, was founded in 1791 by British Loyalists. Originally named York, the settlement was renamed Toronto in 1834 with the granting of a city charter. The city's rectangular grid pattern of streets, which was used for most United States and Canadian cities laid out in the 19th century, is depicted on this 1873 map which was published to accompany a city directory. Representative of late 19th-century urban maps, it shows the individual streets and street names, as well as the city's wards, public parks, and prominent buildings including the parliament buildings, colleges, schools, hospitals, churches, and asylums. Particularly evident are the railroads, which feed into the central business district and terminate at a number of wharves protruding into the harbor, providing evidence of the city's commercial and transportation functions.
date
["1873"]
year
1873
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
05_04_000102
creators
Copp Clark Company
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Roads--Ontario--Toronto--Maps
Toronto (Ont.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Canada
North and Central America
Ontario
Toronto
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Canada
city
Toronto
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Toronto
publisher
Copp, Clark & Co.
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
43.7
schema:longitude
-79.4167
extent
1 map ; 51 x 74 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Featured in the Faces & Places Exhibit, Kravis Center, Palm Beach, FL, since 2005. MB (BRL)
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no
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x633f9889
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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