Map of Part of the Province of Ontario Showing All Cities Towns and Villages of over 200 Inhabitants - with Populations Number of Sheets in Insurance Plan - Appliances for Protection Against Fire and all Counties, Townships and Railways. / Map of Part of the Province of Ontario. District West of Toronto. / Map of Part of the Province of Ontario. . Toronto to Kingston.

This very scarce map is bound in two separate modern cloth parts, showing southern Ontario and marking the locations of fire stations across the province. From the Key: "Towns and Villages shaded thus: [marks shown] are those of which Insurance Plans have been made. Those marked with a square being Places of 5000 population and over and those shown with a circle being smaller Places. . The first number indicates the population, the second is number of sheets in Insurance Plan."An English railway engineer, Charles Goad went to Canada in 1868, where he did not pursue engineering, but became a representative for the Sanborn Company which published fire insurance plans. From 1875 Goad began to compile and publish his own large-scale plans of Canadian towns from a base in Montreal, and soon became the largest private mapmaker in Canada. By 1885 Charles Goad had returned to Britain and established a branch in London. Goad?s highly detailed plans included information on property holdings, building construction, use and contents, and, like Sanborn?s, functioned as Fire Insurance Plans. Once leased to an insurance company the map volumes were regularly updated by a team of workers who over-pasted sections with new information onto the existing maps, some of them building up to many layers. Goad?s business rapidly expanded to cover the cities and industrial areas of Britain, Denmark, France, Egypt, Turkey, Venezuela, Bermuda, Mexico and South Africa. After his death the company was run by his three sons. Copyrights and assets of the Canadian branch of the company were sold to The Underwriter?s Survey Bureau in 1931., Size : 1957x825 (mm), 77.05x32.48 (Inches), Printed in Color, 0. …