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Canada West (now Ontario, Canada): Toronto. 2 plans. (15) '... Proposed line of railway...

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1024/15-16

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This record is about the Canada West (now Ontario, Canada): Toronto. 2 plans. (15) '... Proposed line of railway... dating from 1851-1879 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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MR 1/1024/15-16
Date
1851-1879
Description

Canada West (now Ontario, Canada): Toronto. 2 plans. (15) '... Proposed line of railway through the Ordnance property and Garrison reserve with plan of ground for the depot'; (16) 'Plan shewing... the land applied for the line etc, of the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron railroad ...'. Scale: (15) 1 inch to 126 yards [1:4,536]; (16) 1 inch to 200 yards [1:7,200]. Compass indicator. to item (15). Item (15) surveyed by B W Barlow, Civil Engineers; item (16) drawn by R Pilkington. Dimensions: (15) 76 cm x 200 cm; (16) 37 cm x 51 cm. Originally accompanying: (15) H Boulton's letter dated 27 October 1851; [Lieutenant Colonel] [?]Whinyates's letter number 367, dated 14 November 1851.

A note on each sheet states that a copy of it was made for the Canadian Northern Railway Company, 7 November 1879; these copies (which were assigned the reference number Canada 8/243) have not been identified among the holdings of The National Archives..

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
MS, coloured
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9442923/

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