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Canada West (now Ontario, Canada): Bytown (now Ottawa). Four street plans showing...

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1024/29-32

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This record is about the Canada West (now Ontario, Canada): Bytown (now Ottawa). Four street plans showing... dating from 1851 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 1/1024/29-32

Date

1851

Description

Canada West (now Ontario, Canada): Bytown (now Ottawa). Four street plans showing a proposal for extending Wellington Street across Ordnance land; item (32) also bearing a section of the land across the land. All items to scale: 1 inch to 132 feet. Compass indicators to items (29, 31-32). Items (29, 31-32) drawn by R Pilkington; item (30) by Lieutenant Sidney B Farrell, Royal Engineers, 17 November 1851. Signed: (29) H P Wulf; (30) Captain Charles E Ford; (31) Lieutenant Colonel J Whinyates; (32) Colonel [Henry] Vavasour. Dimensions (29) 28 cm x 44 cm; (30) 33 cm x 27 cm; (31) 33 cm x 75 cm; (32) 69 cm x 83 cm. Item (31) originally accompanying Lieutenant Colonel Whinyates's report number 319, 24 July 1851. Item (32) originally accompanying Colonel Vavasour's letter number 244, 6 January 1851.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)

Language

English

Map scale

1:1584

Physical condition

MS, coloured

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

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Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from records of various departments

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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...

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