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Plan: 'Sketch of the Ordnance Lands at Berry Head': tracing of MPHH 1/692/1.
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/692/7
Date: 1831
Plan: 'Sketch of the Ordnance Lands at Berry Head': tracing of MPHH 1/692/1.
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Upper Canada: Toronto. (6) 'Sketch of the Town and Harbour of York...and also of...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/47/6-7
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This record is about the Upper Canada: Toronto. (6) 'Sketch of the Town and Harbour of York...and also of... dating from 1833-1834 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPHH 1/47/6-7
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833-1834
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Description (What the record is about)
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Upper Canada: Toronto. (6) 'Sketch of the Town and Harbour of York...and also of the Military Reserve showing the site of the New Barracks and Work around them, as proposed to be erected near the Western Battery'; map showing named streets and principal buildings, grants of land, proprietors and acreage, numbered lots and fortifications. Reference memoranda on compass variation, the harbour and soil. Scale: 1 inch to 300 yards [1:10,800]. Compass indicator. Copied by J N [?Nightingale], 26 July 1834, from an original plan that had been signed by Colonel Gustavus Nicolls, Commanding RE, 24 December 1833. (7) Sketch of the town, Military Reserve and harbour of York, including soundings; without the reference memoranda and showing less detail of the town than (6). Reference table to acreages and distances. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560]. Copy by S B Howlett, 4 May 1833, from an original plan surveyed and drawn by Lieutenant Phillpotts, RE; (signed) by S P Hurd SG [?Surveyor General]. Compass indicators. Dimensions: (6) 55.6 cm x 88.1 cm; (7) 56.1 cm x 83.3 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 1606
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Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from records of the War Office
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