Goad, Charles Edward

City of Toronto Plate 49 [North Toronto, Eglington Ave. & Yonge St.]

Toronto: Office of the Minister of Agriculture, c. 1890. Notes: Map of Toronto at the intersection of Eglington Ave and Yonge St. with Glenview Ave. to the North, York Ave. to the East, Dupont Ave. and Roxborough to the South and Dufferin St. to the West. Includes details of the Toronto belt line and Canadian Pacific Railways.

English railway engineer, 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 : 460x695 (mm), 18.10x27.35 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color with Some Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Canada Ontario South York Toronto; Maps City Maps;. Very Good; backed with acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. Item #M8382

Notes: Map of Toronto at the intersection of Eglington Ave and Yonge St. with Glenview Ave. to the North, York Ave. to the East, Dupont Ave. and Roxborough to the South and Dufferin St. to the West. Includes details of the Toronto belt line and Canadian Pacific Railways.

English railway engineer, 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 : 460x695 (mm), 18.10x27.35 (Inches), Coloring: Printed in Color with Some Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Canada Ontario South York Toronto; Maps City Maps;.

Price: $1,250.00